A new season awaits — that’s the theme of Jason Carmean’s column in today’s (Saturday’s) Mansfield, Ohio, News Journal. He shares the plans of he and his wife, Christy, to move to the Cameroon next year to help train pastors. A portion of the Viewpoint column appears below. Click here to read the complete story. […]
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The Grace Brethren Church, Menominee, Mich. (James Burke, pastor) celebrated one year of meeting as a church on Sunday with a baptism service in Lake Michigan. “We baptized three new believers,” Pastor Burke reports. Some photos of the event are included here. For additional images, see the Menominee Grace Brethren Church Facebook page.
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Winona at 100: Third Wave Rising, the definitive history of Winona Lake, Ind., that has been written by Terry White and Steve Grill, is now available in electronic format. The book is currently available in the Kindle (amazon.com) and Nook (Barnes & Noble) format. The iBook and Kobo formats should be available this week. Below
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“The Fourth of July is a big day in our little town,” reports Pastor Terry Daniels, of the Grace Brethren Church in South Pasadena, Calif. Everyone comes out and marches in the Festival of Balloons Parade.” For a number of years, the church has handed out bottles of chilled water at the beginning of the parade. Even
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Ryan Bowell has been named to the position of director of credit services, at the Grace Brethren Investment Foundation (GBIF), effective July 1, 2013. Ryan comes to the GBIF as a seasoned business professional with a strong background in strategic planning and the ability to work within multiple levels of an organization. Ryan will primarily
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As we learned of last week’s death of veteran missionary, “Amazon Bill” Burk, the tributes to his ministry have poured in. Burk’s association with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, and Encompass World Partners (formerly Grace Brethren International Missions), with whom he ministered, was long and storied. For many of us who grew up in
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Mansfield, Ohio, television station, WMFD, shares the story of this year’s Wifflefest at Southview Grace Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio (Mark Abel, pastor). A portion of the print story appears below. Click here to read the complete post. The 14th annual Wifflefest is coming up this week beginning on July 4th at 9am at Southview
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From April 10 to April 13, Grace College Varsity Mediation Team members Mary Wick, Jacob McCarthy, Drake Darrah, Young Sun Seong and Ashley Brewster attended the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) in Elkhart, Indiana. VORP is a mediation process that focuses on “restorative justice.” Instead of merely sentencing a criminal for the crime committed, the program
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Bruce Triplehorn, a missionary to Brazil with Encompass World Partners and author of the BMH book, Worship the Golden Thread, worked with the late Bill Burk from the moment the Triplehorns landed in the South American country in the 1990s. Upon hearing of Burk’s death on July 26, Bruce sent this tribute, which he had
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Wanting to reach their community and help others in a tangible way, The Village Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Milton, Ontario (Rob Stanley, pastor), launched a program last year called VillageHelps. According to Village Community Church elder Ted Adomanis, VillageHelps exists to meet needs in the community and within their own church. Their
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