The 50-by-80-foot strip of land sat neglected until the La Loma Grace Brethren Church, Modesto, Calif., took a leap of faith and planted it with a community garden. “It was an eyesore with people in the community, and people are ecstatic that someone is putting it to good use,” says Pastor Joel Richards. The Modesto Neighborhood Community […]
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“I searched for God and He helped me find Him,” Julie D’Mello recently told the congregation at Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Mississauga, Ontario (Bartley Sawatsky, pastor). “I’m truly blessed to be a child of God.” Listen to Julie and her husband, Aaron, as they share their journey to find Christ. They
Grace College professor and Kosciusko Lakes and Streams director Nate Bosch authored a new publication in the September issue of the Journal of Great Lakes Research reporting the impacts of agriculture on lakes. The study focused on agricultural lands in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio that surround Lake Erie. The implications of the research extend to
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It’s an inspiring story. A young man witnesses to his friend, who becomes a Christ-follower, and then that young man baptizes his friend at the annual youth retreat. Dave Pacheco, youth pastor at the Grace Brethren Church in Delaware, Ohio, had a front-seat view to this story and he picks it up from here: Nate
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Grace’s men’s soccer team will be featured on the nationally broadcasted Game of the Week on Wednesday, September 25 against Indiana Wesleyan at Miller Field. It will be broadcast on the Internet and may be accessed at http://www.nscaatv.com/ at game time. The contest, part of Tourbeau Sports Group’s National Men’s Soccer Game of the Week broadcast schedule,
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LifeWay Christian Resources President Thom Rainer announced Sept. 13 that Union University President David S. Dockery is the recipient of the second Holman Christian Standard Bible Award, the highest honor that LifeWay bestows. Rainer, speaking at a chapel service in Union’s G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel, read a letter from Selma Wilson, president of LifeWay’s B&H
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Calvary Grace Brethren Church in Kettering, Ohio, is a small church with a big heart for discipleship and missions. About 14 years ago, the men at Calvary Grace started visiting a prison in central Ohio. Every fourth Sunday, they hold a service at the facility, sharing the gospel message and spending time with the inmates. It
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Longtime Grace Brethren pastor, William Russell “Russ” Ogden, of Winona Lake, Ind., died Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 1:15 p.m. at Grace Village Health Care of Winona Lake at the age of 88. He served the Lord through the Grace Brethren Church for 50 years. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot
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Love and liberty was the theme of the recent wedding of Benjamin and Hillary Courter in Maryland. Several D.C. area television stations carried the story. Benjamin’s dad, Pastor Doug Courter, tells the back story: Benjamin (a Sergeant in the Marine Corp) and Hillary had planned on a late 2011 wedding, so she ordered her dream
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A prayer request has come from Go2 Ministries, the national church-planting arm of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches: Please keep our director of urban training, Pastor Michel Faulkner, his wife, Virginia, and their family in prayer as a physical illness requiring five weeks of hospitalization has placed significant strain on their family and ministry.
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