We had planned to mourn our daughter’s death in private. At 26-weeks gestation, our perfectly-healthy baby girl stopped breathing, and we were told the operation to deliver her would take mere minutes, leaving us with the hearts of parents, but no child to raise. We knew we’d mourn her passing, but we planned to do […]
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Longtime Grace College men’s basketball coach, Jim Kessler, coached the final college basketball game of his career Tuesday night as he coached the NAIA East all star team. The East team lost to the West, 111-107. Stats from the actual game were not immediately released by the NAIA. Below is a portion of a report
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Warsaw Christian School will be closed the next three days due to the increased cases of illness among students and staff, according to a report issued yesterday at the online news site, InkFreeNews. Warsaw Christian School is sponsored by Community Grace Brethren Church, Warsaw, Ind. (Tiberius Rata, interim pastor). A portion of the story appears
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Generosity is the theme of the Winter-Spring issue of GraceConnect magazine. The publication is in the mail to subscribers and is available online by clicking here. You may also read it at issuu.com. Articles include how to better manage your funds in order to bless the kingdom, lessons in biblical generosity, and how to encourage
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Last week marked the 300th issue of GraceConnect eNews! Since the first newsletter in June 2013, we have told a new story each week of what God is doing in and through the people and churches of the Charis Fellowship (Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches). With last week’s issue, we took a look back at
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[quote align=”center” color=”#999999″]Most Christians in the United States are willing to live with the guilt of knowing they could be more generous but not willing to live without the luxuries our society affords us.[/quote] In three of the four Gospels, two stories are always told together. The first is where the little children came to
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Chuck Davis, executive director of Caribbean Vision Ministries, has sent a reminder to pray for this week’s first national conference of the Charis Alliance churches in Haiti. God has told us to “pray without ceasing” (KJV) or “pray continually” (NIV) because “this is God’s will for you in Christ,” (1 Thessalonians 5:17-18). Prayer is a
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The date for the Northwest Focus Retreat has changed. It will be May 20 – 22, 2019 at Camp Clear Lake near White Pass, Wash., rather than what was previously posted (May 13-15). As the retreat did last year, it will begin at Iglesia De Los Hermanos, 202 West Mead Ave., Yakima, Wash., on Monday evening then move on
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An article in Friday’s Washington Post reports the decision of Grace Brethren Christian school to leave its athletic conference early because of the league’s allowance of transgender athletes to compete on teams consistent with their gender identities. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Grace Brethren Christian School
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This Sunday, Jim Hocking, founder of Water for Good, will be speaking at the Grace Brethren Church in Martinsburg, Pa., according to a story in the Morrison’s Cove Herald. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Water Driller, CEO to Speak March 24 at Martinsburg Church The community
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