The executive directors/heads of the major Grace Brethren cooperating organizations gathered this week for a festive Christmas dinner and their annual lengthy discussion about the Fellowship–the bright spots, issues to address, reports on activity, and ways to pray for Grace Brethren churches and people. Held in the conference room of the newly-renovated offices of Brethren […]

The following editorial by Pastor Jason Carmean of the Lexington, OH Grace Brethren Church appeared in this morning’s Mansfield, OH newspaper: I wake up on Christmas morning with the anticipation of homemade cinnamon rolls and a fresh hot cup of coffee knowing that there are gifts under the Christmas tree with my name on them.

Pastor Tim Boal of the Penn Valley Grace Brethren Church, Telford, PA, is the newly-named Grace Brethren North American Missions executive director. His duties with GBNAM begin January 1, 2005.

The Board of Directors of Grace Brethren North American Missions is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Tim Boal as the new Executive Director of GBNAM. Dr. Boal is the senior pastor of the Penn Valley Church of Telford, Pennsylvania, a position in which he has served since 1992. He will begin his duties

The combined offices of Brethren Missionary Herald Co. and the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches invite you to a holiday Open House next Thursday, December 16 from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. We’ll have a light lunch for you, some live Christmas music, and lots of fellowship and good conversation in our newly-renovated offices. We’re

Our home is your home. This is BMH’s front lobby/reception area–offices for BMH and FGBC are back the hall, with the conference room at the end. Come see us the 16th or anytime you’re in the area! 

A panel of Grace Brethren MKs (missionary kids) presented a program earlier this week for some 70 Women of Grace at Grace Village Retirement Center in Winona Lake, Indiana. The panel discussed how Christmas is celebrated in the cultures in which they have lived–the host was Grace College professor Jacqueline (Julien) Schram. Panel members (from

Daniel E. Wonderly, who taught biology at Grace College in the middle 1960s and 1970s, died December 3 in Garrett County Memorial Hospital, Oakland, Maryland, according to today’s Warsaw Times-Union newspaper. Wonderly, 82, is survived by his wife, Edna; a daughter, Eunice Stackhouse of Montreat, NC; a son, Philip, of Warsaw, IN; a grandson and

Pastor Steve Makofka of the Centerville, OH, Grace Brethren Church, is shown here directing the Oakwood Accordion Band in the lobby of the Schuster Center for the Performing Arts in Dayton, Ohio. Makofka, whose interest in the accordion and ethnomusicology increased after a mission trip to Africa, joined the band to gain some more facility

Today’s Los Angeles Daily News carries a story about perhaps the best-ever running back to come from Grace Brethren High in Simi Valley, CA. By Ramona Shelburne, Staff Writer When the legend of Chad Kackert is shared with future generations at Grace Brethren High in Simi Valley, the story will begin during the fourth week