A celebration of life for Dr. Lester E. Pifer was held Sunday, January 12, 2020, at Grace Polaris Church, Westerville, Ohio. Dr. Pifer died Christmas Day at the age of 99. Pastor Mike Yoder led the service. Mark Pifer shared on behalf of the family, and other memories were shared by Bob Combs, Chip Heim, […]
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The year 2019 was an amazing year of ministry for churches in the Charis Fellowship. We thought it would be nice to remember a few stories of how God moved in the lives of people within the fellowship. Below are a few summaries of stories from the last year. If you click on the title
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Brenda Gerber Vincent will be the keynote speaker at Grace College’s Career Week Chapel at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Jan. 31, in the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center, 610 Wooster Rd., Winona Lake, Ind. Career Week Chapel is free and open to the public. “We are excited to bring Brenda Gerber Vincent to Grace College to share
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Grace College welcomes Ted McKinney, undersecretary of agriculture for trade and foreign agricultural affairs, to be the keynote speaker at its second annual Ag Night. The event will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 5 p.m. in the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center, 610 Wooster Rd., Winona Lake, Ind. Ag Night is hosted by Grace’s
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This week, Charis Fellowship chaplains endorsing agent, Mark Penfold (Chaplain [Colonel] U.S. Army, retired), sent his monthly prayer letter. In it contained a reminder to pray for our Charis Fellowship chaplains, some of them who are currently in harm’s way. We felt it bore repeating here. Click here for more information on the Eagle Commission,
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Jack Brown, director of Grow New England, a Charis Fellowship church-planting endeavor in the Northeast, has sent his January prayer letter. Here are a few tidbits from the letter. Dana and Kate Moore concluded 19+ years of ministry at North Shore Bible Church! They will be greatly missed. Pray for them as they wait on
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Thrive, the quarterly newsletter for wives of pastors in the Charis Fellowship, has been released. This issue includes a note from Pastor Mark Lingenfelter, the current president of Inspire, Charis Pastors Network, and a feature on long-time pastor’s wife, Lois Shirk, Ripon, Calif. Click here to read the complete newsletter. Thrive is a network of the Charis Fellowship
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Grace College’s CPA pass rate was recently ranked in the top seven percent in the country by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). The report evaluated 2018 pass rates of 242 “first-time, small program” institutions. Grace placed 17th, making it the highest-ranked Hoosier institution in the category. “I was thrilled to see
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Grace Church in Wooster, Ohio (Nick Cleveland, senior pastor) partnered with Habitat with Humanity, along with other churches and organizations in their community, to provide a home for Delphine Tarpley and her family just in time for Christmas! This story appeared in GraceConnect eNews. To subscribe to the weekly e-newsletter that includes news and
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Word has been received of the December 19, 2019, death of Lenard Moen, a former member of the board of directors of Encompass World Partners (formerlyBrethren Foreign Missions). His obituary appears below. Lenard Evert Moen was born on November 22, 1923, in Long Beach, Calif., to Wilbur and Harriet Moen. He had one older sister,
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