This stimulating entry appears on the current blog of WORLD magazine. How do we, as Grace Brethren, react? Should we be setting numerical goals for conversions and baptisms? Is our over-arching goal of every church being a church-planting center realistic, reachable, and biblically defensible? If we are to continue the Progressive Brethren tradition, we need […]

Your intrepid blogger is out of town for a few days on a mission that is more personal than Grace Brethren. Sharon and I have been in Knoxville, Tennessee, this weekend, playing piano and organ for a wedding at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church. We attended this great church Sunday morning, and reconnected with some friends

The Fresno Bee newspaper has a full accounting of the rescue story. Here are the first few paragraphs. To read the entire story, click here. Experienced searchers say it’s the third day when worry turns to dread.On Sunday, the second night that Bob Gnewuch was lost in Sequoia National Park, rescue teams planned an inch-by-inch

The current blog of Christianity Today carries this interesting item on efforts to make amends for the persecution our Anabaptist forebears endured: Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed churches are seeking to make amends for persecuting Anabaptists in the 16th and 17th centuries. A Vatican-appointed delegation last fall concluded five years of meetings with a group from

Good news! Pastor Steve Shipley, from the Fort Myers, Florida, Grace Brethren Church, sends this post-Charley report: Thanks for your concern. While everyone here had much debris from fallen limbs and were inconvenienced with power outages ranging from day one until the present (four days; my home was off two and 1/2; the church three

How did Hurricane Charley affect our churches in Florida? Very little news has been coming out, with phones inoperative and e-mail not working, but our inquiries did get this reponse from Bill Smith, pastor of Grace Christian Ministries in Maitland, in the Orlando area: “We fared well and are praising the Lord. We talked to

C. Dayton Cundiff, 86, went to be with the Lord at 9:20 p.m. Friday, August 13 from Grace Village Healthcare Facility in Winona Lake, Indiana. Services are at 10 a.m. today (Tuesday, 17 August) at Titus Funeral Home in Warsaw. A native of Union, Iowa, Cundiff was a graduate of Whitworth College in Spokane, WA,

Bob’s Back! This page was last updated: Monday, 8/16 at 6:21pm Bob Gnewuch was discovered around 5:40pm. He has been airliftedback to the Dorst Creek Campground where he has been re-united with family and friends! On behalf of the Gnewuch family,thank you all for your prayers and encouragement during this ordeal.To the National Park Service

Mon., 8/16, 2:30pm Ed Trenner called in from the field to report that the SAR team has found Bob’s name and a date along the creek they were following. It was dated 8/15 (yesterday), but this is the first solid evidence we have that this is really Bob’s trail. Good news! Mon., 8/16, 1:16pm Alex

AP: Cave Found Linked to John the Baptist KIBBUTZ TZUBA, Israel (AP) – Archaeologists said Monday they have found a cave where they believe John the Baptist anointed many of his disciples – a huge cistern with 28 steps leading to an underground pool of water. During an exclusive tour of the cave by The