Serving at the food pantry at Gulfview Grace Church, New Port Richey, Fla. (Paul Poyner, lead pastor), is not new for Bob and Lynn Shaffer. But with the advent of the Coronavirus pandemic and a new partnership with Feeding Tampa Bay, the number of families served has more than tripled. Until this spring, 20 to […]
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A new book, Brethren Intersections: History, Identity, Crosscurrents, has been released by Brethren Encyclopedia, Inc., and is now available. The book contains transcripts of papers and addresses given at the Sixth Brethren World Assembly held in Winona Lake, Ind., in August of 2018. Once every five years representatives of the eight largest Brethren bodies descended
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Dr. Bill Katip, president of Grace College and Seminary, has issued the following statement: I have been burdened over the past several years to take a more active personal role to be inclusive, understanding and loving–someone who loves all my neighbors in ways that demonstrates the love of Jesus and amplifies what the Word of
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The conversation surrounding spiritual gifts can be confusing. Author and pastor, Timothy Clothier looks to eliminate that frustration in his book, To Each is Given. Clothier is the senior pastor of Waynesboro Grace Brethren Church, Waynesboro, Pa., and has been in full-time pastoral ministry for more than a decade. In To Each is Given, released
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With the postponement of the Access2020 conference this summer, Phil Sparling, executive director of the Charis Fellowship, has announced a special on-line celebration, WeAreOne, to be held Sunday, July 26. It will be the largest gathering of Charis Fellowship churches ever! Congregations around North America are encouraged to gather at 6 p.m. EDT (3 p.m.
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Jane Peters, who served in the Central African Republic with her husband, George, has died. Her obituary appears below. Sara Jane Peters, 84, of Wooster, Ohio, went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at West View Healthy Living. Private services will be held at Wooster Cemetery with Pastor Robert D. Fetterhoff,
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Ed Lewis, director emeritus at CE National, lists ways students (and others) can tell others about their faith in Jesus Christ. This is part of the What If__ campaign. (from cenational.org) Ideas from Ed Lewis for sharing your faith. Represent a positive Christian example on social media. Conduct a voluntary Bible study or prayer group on
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Grace Community Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation led by Pastor Jim Brown in Goshen, Ind., is a polling site for the primary election in Indiana today, according to a report in the Goshen News. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Many Goshen voters don masks, comfortable voting
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Vet Gonzalez, a high school athletic coach, shares his story of how he came to know Jesus and his experience being invited by CE National’s Ed Lewis to Urban Hope Training Center. “So we go to Urban Hope and that changes everything,” says Vet, “It reveals a burden.” Watch his story below. This story appeared
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Pastor Bruce Jackson and First Grace Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Dayton, Ohio, was featured over the weekend in an online article at Forbes.com. The article discussed the Payment Protection Program and the impact it has had on faith-based organizations. A portion of the article appears below. Click here to read the complete story.
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