Here is an excerpt from today’s Johnstown, Pa., newspaper on the economic downturn’s effect on local churches. To read the entire article, click here. State of Our Faith | Tithing is a constantBy TOM LAVIS A poor economy doesn’t always mean less cash for the church collection plate. With the economy in crisis, there have […]

Ted D. Rondeau CFP CFRM (pictured), Chief Development Officer for Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), Winona Lake, Indiana, will be attending and presenting a workshop at the fifth annual “National Philanthropy Day” conference of the NE Indiana chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals this week in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Rondeau will present a workshop

Todd Scoles (pictured), author of the recently-released BMH book, Restoring the Household, will be a panelist when the Brethren Heritage Center in Brookville, Ohio looks at the 300th anniversary of the Brethren movement. The event will be held at 7 p.m., Saturday, November 8, at the Brethren Heritage Center and Brookside Community Center, 428 Wolf

Dave Guiles (left), executive director of Grace Brethren International Missions and Dr. Francois Ngoumape (right), head of the Bible schools and seminary in the Central African Republic, are making the rounds of U.S. Grace Brethren ministeriums to talk about the exciting opportunities and plans to expand pastoral training in the C.A.R. Here they are shown

BMH author Tom Julien has several positive exposures in the October, 2008, issue of EMQ (Evangelical Missions Quarterly) (pictured), one of the nation’s premier missions magazines which is published by the Evangelism and Missions Information Service (EMIS) of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Illinois. Julien’s four-page article “Training Leaders by Planting Seed

An exciting night of Black Gospel Music presented by Ray Sidney and the Cornerstone Japanese Gospel Choir will be held this Friday, November 7, at 8 p.m. at the “It’s-A-Grind” coffee shop on Carson and Cherry in Long Beach, California (2010 E. Carson St.) Cecil and Debbie O’Dell (pictured) work with a Japanese Returnee ministry

From today’s Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, is a story about the soccer team at Worthington Christian High School, which is a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church of Columbus. To read the complete story, click here. CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — The Worthington Christian boys soccer team earned its second trip to the Division III state championship game

Here is an update from former GBIM missionary Eddie Mensinger on the recent accident in the Central African Republic just before the opening of the pastors’ conference: A truck hauling pastors from the South Paoua District had an accident just south of Yaloke. The driver was going down a hill when apparently something in the

Greg Burgess (right) who serves with Grace Brethren International Missions and Editions Cle in a literature ministry in France and Africa, is leaving for Ghana tomorrow. He will be attending a ‘train the trainer’ workshop given by Media Associates International (see www.littworld.org). The training will help Burgess to be more effective when working with those

New Horizon Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Winona Lake, Ind., wants to draw attention to the issue of domestic violence. They are hosting See the Need, an annual art exhibit and three-day event dedicated to highlighting local social issues through the arts. This year, See the Need is focused to raise awareness about