The Heralds of Grace ride again! The quartet, originally formed 44 years ago in the fall of 1960, traveled and sang on behalf of Grace College and Seminary for about seven years in the 1960s. The group got together Friday night for a cookout and songfest in central Ohio–they’ll be singing during the Grace Homecoming […]

For the complete news release, click here. CHICAGO – (Aug. 26, 2004) On Aug. 26, Moody Bible Institute (MBI) President Dr. Joseph M. Stowell announced to students, faculty and staff his resignation effective February 2005. He told those gathered in Torrey-Gray Auditorium, on Moody’s campus, that his decision was guided by a growing sense of

Laura Bloomingdale, who will graduate from Grace College after this semester, began working today as the BMH editorial intern for the fall semester. In a program arranged by Dr. Paulette Sauders of the college’s journalism program, Laura (known to her online friends as “Dr. Laura”) will assist with writing and editing for FGBC World, BMH

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,