From pastor Don Shoemaker of the Grace Brethren church in Seal Beach,California, who also serves as a police chaplain: October 12 started out as an ordinary day–sermon study, hospital visitation. While in that hospital room I got a call from Seal Beach’s police dispatch center asking me to respond to a location where multiple gunshot […]
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In this weekly clip from the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, Dan Allan, pastor of the Grace Brethren Church, Ashland, Ohio, speaks on Vision and the Glory of God at the Vision2020 Leadership Conference held in 2011 in Wooster, Ohio Do you see who you are? from Grace Churches on Vimeo.
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Dr. Mark Saunders, who recently retired from a long-term ministry as pastor of the historic First Grace Brethren Church in Dayton, Ohio, has been named by the Association of Grace Brethren Ministers (AGBM) to be their director of pastoral ministry. “I am excited about this new position with AGBM because it gives me the opportunity
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By Kelsey Mitchener The Happy Church, nestled in Appalachian Kentucky, rests in the poorest region of the United States at the seat of the nation’s third-poorest county. It’s a growing Grace Brethren congregation with a powerful ministry to the local poor. We want to help get their moral compass pointing in the right direction,” says
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Kudos Beau Stanley, Jonathan Wiley, and Gary Webb have been ordained into the ministry at the Grace Brethren Church, Columbus, Ohio. In the North Central Ohio District of Grace Brethren Churches, Rick Dale and Mark Abel were both unanimously recommended back to their churches for the next steps in their credentialing process. Rick was examined
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In 1974, then-Pastor Jim Custer invited recent Grace College graduate Randy Kettering to become the Worship and Music Director for the growing Grace Brethren Church of Columbus, Ohio. At that time, Pastor Jim proposed three goals for the church’s ongoing ministries: reach as many people as possible with the gospel of Jesus Christ, involve as
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By Judy Daniels The Christmas season. It’s anticipated, enjoyed, and usually regarded as the most joyous time of the year. But not for everyone. For many people, it can be a painful time. Feelings of sorrow or loneliness can intensify during the holiday season, as people face the reality that their Christmas may not be
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Events of interest among Grace Brethren churches for the Fall of 2011. Details and registration information are available from the sponsoring organizations or at fgbc.org. November 3-5 Homecoming (GCandS)November 4-6 OB ministry reunion, Urban Hope Training Center, Philadelphia (CEN)November 6 Day of Generosity (GBIM)November 16 Operation Barnabas applications due (CEN)December 5 Super Monday, Discipleship: Where
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One of the largest-scale research projects ever undertaken in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC) is in progress to help participating congregations index their relative health in seven “transformational church” categories and to assist pastors in identifying and developing their leadership styles. The study, whose lead researcher is Terry White of BMH Books and
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