Grow New England, the Charis Fellowship church-planting ministry based in the Boston, Mass., area, recently sent an update. It is included below. In 2018 we will be increasing our ministry to the men of our congregation (in Essex, Mass.). A new men’s fellowship will start on January 13. We will be studying the character of […]
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Brian Winter, the son of former Charis Fellowship pastor Chuck and the late Marilyn Winter, has announced he has recently been diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Brian has served as Yakima County, Wash., sheriff since 2015. (Chuck pastored the Grace Brethren Church in Harrah, Wash., for 25 years.) A story in the Yakima,
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Grace Theological Seminary is now accepting applications for Deploy – the first competency-based seminary program in the country accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and granted five-year experimental status by the Association of Theological Schools. The new, modern seminary program at Grace uses a competency-based theological education (CBTE) model delivered online and onsite within a
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Over the weekend, the Grace College Athletic Department sponsored its first-ever Champions of Character Classic. (Read about it here.) Roger Grossman, a Warsaw sports personality and writer, shared his thoughts about the event in a column Wednesday in the Warsaw, Ind., Times-Union. A portion of it appears below. Click here for the complete article. First
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Community of Hope Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Surrey, B.C. (Phil Bryant, pastor) is a church family of about 100 people. This Christmas season, the entire church put their heads and hearts together to put on a dessert theatre production for their community. “I think most of our audience was from outside the church primarily because
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Registration for the third Focus Retreat in the 2017-2018 series for pastors and leaders in the Charis Fellowship (Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches) is now available online. The Southwest Focus Retreat is January 29-31 at The Oaks, Lake Hughes, Calif. As with the retreats in the Central and East regions, the retreat will focus on “Creating
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A highly respected Indiana basketball coach was honored Saturday night at Grace College during the inaugural Champions of Character Classic at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center. The local online news site, InkFreeNews, carried a report. A portion of that report appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Rhodes Right At Home In Spotlight WINONA
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Julia Peterson has joined the GraceConnect.us team as newsletter coordinator. In that capacity, she’ll be writing stories, selecting links of interest, and coordinating the production of the GraceConnect eNews, a free weekly newsletter that shares news and information in the Charis Fellowship (Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches). Julia’s byline is not unfamiliar to GraceConnect. In
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Ruth Etta Gillis age 85 of Grove Hill, Alabama, died December 26, 2017, at Grove Hill Memorial Hospital. She was born August 13, 1932 in California to James Richard and Ruth Leota Keepers. She was a retired elementary school secretary and a lifelong member of Grace Brethren Fellowship. She is survived by her husband, Eldred
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Word has been received of the death of Ruth Gillis, wife of Pastor John Gillis, who last led the Grace Brethren Church in Eagle River, Alaska. Below is information from the Clark County Democrat. Complete obituary information will be published when it is available. Ruthie Gillis passes away at GH hospital Ruthie Gillis died Tuesday
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