Today’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union newspaper features the current work of former GBIM missionary Jim Hocking in Africa. Here is the story, as written by one of the paper’s staff writers: BY DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer Orphans, AIDS, clean water, enterprise and mass communication. They’re the big issues Integrated Community Development International is taking on […]

If you live in the Midwest and want an educational, inspirational half-day with lasting value, we suggest you consider visiting the Behalt Interpretive Center near Berlin, Ohio, about a half-hour south of Wooster. A free 15-minute video is available on the history of the Anabaptist (rebaptizer, so named for instituting baptism of adult believers, rather

This is but one scene, depicting an adult baptism in 1525, from the 265-foot, 10-foot tall cyclorama painting by Heinz Gaugel at the Behalt interpretive center near Berlin, Ohio. An Amish guide traces the history of Anabaptism and its branches (including the Brethren) in an hour-long tour around the massive painting. 

CHARLOTTE, NC (ANS) — In the latest stage of the organization’s growth that began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, more that 50 years ago, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) will celebrate the opening of its new home in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a special dedication ceremony. (Pictured: Franklin and Billy Graham). Some four years after announcing

Grace Brethren North American Missions (GBNAM) and the Editions Cle publishing house have put together an excellent project so that individuals, churches, Sunday School classes and others can provide a 16-book library for French-speaking pastors in Haiti and among Haitians in Florida. The cost of one set of 16 books is $100, and the deadline

Today was a sad day for generations of Grace College and Seminary students as a local icon in the Warsaw/Winona Lake (IN) area bit the dust. “The Flagpole,” a well-known ice cream shop on East Winona Avenue that dates at least back into the 1950s was torn down today to make room for an office

Grace College’s Orthopaedic Scholar Initiative is featured in the newly-issued 2004 annual report of Lilly Endowment, Inc. Grace received a $750,000 grant from the Endowment in December, 2003, which resulted in a partnership with orthopaedic companies in the Winona Lake/Warsaw (IN) area. The Lilly report begins: “Within a few miles of Grace College’s campus in

Nancy Messner from Akron, Ohio, played a mini-concert on the piano at today’s Day Away seniors event in Wooster, Ohio. Nancy, whose father was Grace Brethren pastor Russell Weber, is now organist at The Chapel in Akron. 

Dr. Randy Smith, pastor of the Sebring, Florida, Grace Brethren Church, was one of the speakers for today’s “North of 55” Day Away for seniors at Wooster, Ohio. Other speakers included Pastor Dan Allan of Ashland, Ohio, and testimonies were given by Herb Carr and Ed Jackson. Ed Lewis was the emcee and Seniors Pastor

More than 200 seniors enjoyed an excellent noontime meal together in the Wooster, OH, Grace Brethren Church in the “Day Away” function sponsored by CE National.