The Grace Brethren Investment Foundation (GBIF) has recently approved a first mortgage loan of $3.4 million for the combined ministries of the East Side Grace Brethren Church (Pastor Chip Heim)/ Grace Christian School (Administrator Cindy Phillips) in Blacklick, Ohio, to refinance two existing GBIF notes and add $2.6 million to construct a 30,000 square foot […]

On August 10, Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, pastor) celebrated the opening of their new 30,000 square foot addition. The new facility provides a venue for simulcast of the message from the main auditorium, space for young adults, room for children’s ministries (Kids City and 56th Street), and

Andy Wirt, church planter at ClearView Church, a developing Grace Brethren church in northeast Franklin County, Ohio, is being featured as the Pastor of the Week on WRFD 880 AM Christian radio station in Central Ohio. The program airs each afternoon at 3 p.m. Each spot features several mentions of ClearView’s website and information about

“Follow the sunflower” was the admonition as Nichole Plaster (holding sunflower) set off to lead the Brethren Heritage Tour group on a walking tour of Paris all day Wednesday. Several dozen historic sites are included in the tour, all detailed in a small guidebook which Nichole has created. This will be the final posting from

Sheila Hazzard (left), who is on the staff of the Sunnyside, Washington, Grace Brethren Church, led the Brethren Heritage Tour in a prayer for the French people after the group had toured the majestic Notre Dame Cathedral (construction begun 1163) a few blocks from the group’s hotel in Paris.

Pastor Gary Austin of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Grace Brethren Church, is featured in his local newspaper this week in a series in which people reflect on the good qualities of their neighborhoods. Here is a short excerpt. To read the entire article, click here. Gary Austin and his wife Jean have lived on Parkwood

Water polo aficionados will know that the U.S. Olympic team for men’s water polo held off Italy 12-11 in the second game of Group B play at Ying Tung Natatorium in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics earlier this week. What readers of this blog may not know is that Tim Hutton, a team member who

Go2 Church Planting Ministries is hosting a Church Planter Interact / Workshop on September 22-24, 2008. The workshop will provide participants a time to rethink, reflect, and refresh an individual’s passion for God, others, and the ministry. Sessions will address the practicalities of life as a church planter and networking among church planters and church

An informational and inspirational meeting with a number of Grace Brethren believers from French churches as well as with missionaries was the highlight of Monday evening for the Brethren Heritage Tour group, meeting at the Chateau St. Albain in France. Here GBIM missionary Dave Hobert gives background and answers questions on the development of the

Guests to the Chateau St. Albain eat well, as meals are prepared and served by the staff of the retreat center. Fellowship is good as Brethren Heritage Tour members mixed with missionaries and believers from other parts of the world, as well.