Knowing the kinds of people who live in our community and the problems they face can be an incredible benefit when it comes to programming for ministry and outreach. In a church plant where I’m involved, we ran a demographic program search for a three mile geographic radius surrounding our meeting location. We were provided […]
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From Jesús Muñoz, Director of Ethnic Ministries S.E. USA for Encompass World Partners comes this note: Our sister Migdalia Marquez, wife of church planter José Marquez, was sworn as a new American citizen last Thursday, January 17, 2013, in a ceremony in Tampa, Fla. She was born in Cuba, but now her citizenship is USA; however, she says
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Today’s Wooster, Ohio, Daily Record, tells about the recent youth retreat sponsored by the Grace Brethren Church in Wooster. Nick Cleveland, pastor of high school ministries at the church, has been taking students to the Kalahari Water Park in Sandusky, Ohio, for eight years. A portion of the story appears below. Read the complete story
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Julie Schumacher, director of communications at the Grace Brethren Church, Long Beach, Calif., has accepted a position with an international ministry called Daughters of Cambodia, which works with victims of sex trafficking. Through Daughters of Cambodia, young women are offered skills training and employment in one of seven small fair-trade businesses and a range of social, psychological,
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Jason Baehr, a member of the Grace Brethren Church in Long Beach, Calif. (Lou Huesmann, pastor), was recently featured on the Harvard Educational Publishing Group blog. A portion of his article appears below. Click here to read the complete story. Educating for Intellectual Character In his recent book Character Compass, Boston University professor Scott Seider tells the
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Christa Brown, missions mobilizer at Encompass World Partners, has reported on the recent gathering of Grace Brethren ethnic pastors, which was held January 8-11, 2013, in Atlanta, Ga. Tuesday At noon, about 30 ethnic leaders ministering across the U.S. and Canada gathered together in Atlanta, Ga., to kick off the 4th annual FGBC ethnic leaders’ conference.
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WINONA LAKE, IND. – On Friday, February 1, 2013, the Grace College Chapter of the Council for Exceptional Children will host Scott Rigsby, world recognized Ironman and double amputee, to kick off the Transition Exploration Day on the campus of Grace College. Rigsby’s history is a fascinating and compelling story of persistence against enormous odds. Despite
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Skiing, Snowbarding, and mountain biking are just a few of the adventures awaiting participants in the Northstar Outdoor Adventure GO Team, a short-term ministry trip to Norikura, Japan from June 16 – 28, 2013. The team will help minister to the Japanese population through Northstar, an outdoor school and lodge in the Japanese Alps which
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GraceConnect and the Brethren Missionary Herald Company welcomes intern Ethan Sheckler. A native of Goshen, Ind., Ethan is a senior at Grace College and plans to graduate in May. He has served as copy editor and staff writer for the Grace College Sounding Board. Watch for Ethan’s byline on graceconnect.us and in the new GraceConnect magazine. He’ll
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WINONA LAKE, IN. –Last semester at Grace College demonstrated an extraordinary achievement for the college: five Grace professors received doctorate degrees during the fall 2012 semester. Jeff Gill, Roger Stichter, Deb Musser, Cheryl Bremer, and Terry White all finished their degrees this fall while teaching for the college. “Institutions like ours always have faculty members that
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