Grace College’s Gamma Hall men’s dorm, a perimeter dorm located on King’s Highway in Winona Lake, Indiana, was completely destroyed by fire Monday night. Tuesday morning workmen pushed in the rubble after nearly 40 firemen from Winona Lake and Warsaw fought the blaze for 50 minutes in the middle of the night. Lightning is suspected […]

No cause for the fire has been determined, but a vigorous thunderstorm moved through Winona Lake about midnight Monday. The fire was discovered at 12:15 a.m., and the presumed cause was a lightning strike. 

Tuesday morning firemen watched as the rubble of the Gamma Dorm was pushed into the foundation. Some 18 Grace College men were to have occupied it next week for the coming school year. 

Too close for comfort! The former Gamma Dorm is directly across the street from the Brethren Missionary Herald offices, the Herald Bookstore, and the Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church. Here’s the view of the rubble from BMH’s front door! 

The 80-year-old former residence, according to the Warsaw Times-Union, is a total loss at about $200,000. Dean of Students Jim Swanson says, “We’re fine as far as adequate housing. We’re making plans to reassign the students from Gamma–our goal is to keep as many of the guys from the dorm together as possible.”

This pile of rubble is all that’s left of Gamma Dorm A as of Tuesday afternoon, August 10. There was also surge damage to the electrical panel at Beta Hall, but no other damage is known. Several area residents contacted the college after the fire offering to open their homes to students if housing was

Want a wonderfully informative and interesting historical presentation of the Anabaptist roots of the Grace Brethren movement? Visit the Menno-Hof complex on the west side of Rt. 5 just south of Shipshewana, Indiana, about 40 miles north and east of Winona Lake. We visited it yesterday–what a delightful experience, and so informative! Opened in 1988,

The bags have arrived at Schofield! Dick and Kay Kessler (shown here) from the Western Reserve Grace Brethren Church in Macedonia, Ohio, were among the hundreds of national conference attendees who helped stuff goody bags for military wives at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, which Grace Brethren Chaplain James Schaefer serves. A note from Beth Bryant

It was a three-missionary night! Wednesday night at Global Prayer Group, Dave and Sue Griffith (right), veteran missionaries to LeCreusot, France, showed a PowerPoint presentation and gave updates on their ministry. They will be visiting supporting churches in Indiana and Michigan, in addition to getting their youngest son, Jeremy, started as a freshman at Grace

About taking a little time off for fishing with the grandkids…here’s Chad, 10, with a largemouth bass he’s just pulled out of Heritage Lake. We’re havin’ fun now!