The Central Focus Retreat for Grace Brethren ministry leaders kicked off last evening at Maumee Bay State Park Resort and Conference Center near Toledo, Ohio. Located on the western shore of Lake Erie, the center has provided a place for the pastors from the central region of the U.S. and Canada to catch their breath. […]
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As part of Sacred Space Day of Service, members of Penn Valley Church, a multi-site Grace Brethren congregation in Telford, Pa., helped clean up Union Cemetery, an historic cemetery in nearby Quakertown, on Saturday. A story about it was included on phillyburbs.com. “It’s an opportunity to bless the community,” said Daryl Swartley, pastor at Penn Valley
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Dan O’Deans, executive director of CPR-3, has issued a call to prayer. He wrote about it recently on his blog: My heart has been so burdened to PRAY. I am so prone to structure and to plan and to put strategy into play…that is my normal default. CPR-3 has been given an opportunity in Haiti….an opportunity that
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Dan O’Deans, executive director of CPR-3, has issued a call to prayer. He wrote about it recently on his blog: My heart has been so burdened to PRAY. I am so prone to structure and to plan and to put strategy into play…that is my normal default. CPR-3 has been given an opportunity in Haiti….an
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From the Marion, Ohio, Star, earlier this week: Grace Brethren to welcome new associate pastor MARION – Grace Brethren Church, 2813 Gooding Road, will welcome a new associate pastor, Jim Spelman, on Sunday. Pastor Spelman, his wife, Jessica, and their four children join the ministry of the church and community. Pastor Spelman’s experience includes numerous
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Tickets for the annual holiday tradition in Central Ohio will go on sale Monday, October 1. For more than 25 years, Grace Polaris Church (Mike Yoder, lead pastor), a Grace Brethren congregation on the north side of Columbus, have been producing a Christmas pageant with a purpose — full of live music, special effects, live
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More than 550 women are scheduled to attend the annual Women’s Day Away tomorrow at the Grace Brethren Church in Wooster, Ohio (Bob Fetterhoff, pastor). The annual event is a day of pampering and inspiration that begins at 8 o’clock in the morning and continues through mid-afternoon. Tickets for tomorrow’s Day Away are completely sold
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Movement Church, a new Grace Brethren congregation in Hilliard, Ohio (Columbus area), has sent their latest prayer letter. Some of it is reproduced below. To read the complete letter, including the names of the launch team, click here. Particularly note two opportunities at the end of this post for people in Central Ohio to help
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More news from the Eagle Commission newsletter: We welcome Army Chaplain Carl Phillips (wife, Deanna) to our ranks this month! Major Phillips comes as a transfer of endorsement from the Ashland Brethren group. He is a member and elder of Brighton Chapel Grace Brethren Church in Howe, Ind. We appreciate Endorsing Agent John Schumacher for
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From the blog of GO2 Church Planting Ministries, a national organization of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches: GO2 Ministries is one of the four key organizations in the Movement Project which is the foundation for today’s event, Movement Day. GO2’s role in the project is to provide our Missional Alignment Program to ethnic church planters in
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