From the online version of Tampa Tribune: Leslie Brewer, of Sebring, watches the annual Christmas Parade from the Grace Brethren Church room above the Sebring Circle.(Kathy Waters/Highlands Today file photo). The downtown building, which is several miles from the church’s main campus, is used for housing and as an educational base for the Great Commission […]

From today’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union: Winona Discusses Billy Sunday Visitors’ Center, Museum Jennifer PeryamTimes-Union Staff Writer WINONA LAKE – Winona Lake Town Council Tuesday heard the Billy Sunday Visitors’ Center and Museum may close due to deficits. The council Tuesday approved a proposal that the town, in cooperation with Grace College and the Village at

The Grace Brethren church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Gary Austin, pastor)is celebrating60 years of ministry this coming Sunday, November 30, 2008! Special guest is former pastor Gary Kochheiser. He will be sharing his experiences in the Holy Land during Sunday School and then preaching during the morning service. The theme for the day is Give

News Update — Je’Rod Cherry will be interviewed on the Jim Rome Show around 1:30 p.m. (EST) today (November 25). It can be heard in the Cleveland area on WKNR, 850AM, but can be heard around the country on a variety of stations or online at http://www.jimrome.com/home.html. More than $138,000 has been raised for needy

Isaac Ogden is going in for surgery on his eye tomorrow, November 25, at 8:30 a.m. Please pray for the doctors, for the family and for little Isaac. See blog entry of November 19 for background.

The Grace College Wind Ensemble, conducted by Martin Becker, will present “Sounds of the Season,” on Saturday, December 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Rodeheaver Auditorium in Winona Lake, Indiana. The concert will feature many Christmas favorites including “Sleigh Ride” and a swinging arrangement of “Good ‘Swing’ Wenceslas,” plus an audience sing-a-long to Leroy Anderson’s medley,

The following guest column, by Grace Theological Seminary M.Div. graduate Patrick Harris (pictured), appeared in this morning’s Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette newspaper. To see the original, click here. God’s endless grace leads to greed The Rev. Patrick J. Harris, Bethel Church ’Tis the season to be thankful! Too bad we need a season for it but

Grace College alumnus Robert Spahr (class of 1964) has sent along a couple of historic photos of Winona Lake, Indiana, as the town looked about 50 years ago. McKee Courts, shown here, was a motel located in the center of the island, which served as a men’s dorm. Those who lived there will remember the

The Eskimo Inn was a favorite restaurant and a gathering-place for ice cream and coffee after the evening sessions of national conference held each summer in Winona Lake. It stood on Park Avenue, across from the Administration Building, where there is now a parking lot adjacent to the new post office building.

Former Grace College coach and former Grace Brethren pastor Lloyd Woolman recently moved back from Washington State to Grace Village Retirement Center in Winona Lake, Indiana. Almost immediately he faced some serious health issues. His son, Gary Woolman, lives in Fort Wayne and is visiting his father regularly. In response to some blog comments from