Providing Haitian pastors with the necessary training to lead a church is the best way to raise healthy congregations, according to Elysee Joseph, pastor of the Eglise Evangelique De La Freres, a Grace Brethren church in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Haitian community. He and his fellow Haitian Grace Brethren pastors in South Florida have a […]

It was during the first week of August in 1708 when Alexander Mack “counted the cost” and defiantly baptized a small group of believers in Schwarzenau, Germany. That baptism began a movement that has resulted in hundreds of churches around the world. Next year, those beginnings will be marked in Schwarzenau on August 2 and

By Katy Devereaux Step inside the home of Rick and Jamie DeBoest, of Community Grace Brethren Church in Warsaw, Ind., and you will instantly feel like you’ve come home. With four young children running around in their pajamas and making a fort out of the kitchen table, anyone can clearly see the love and laughter

Stacy Householder makes sure the nearly 200 cast members of the Living Christmas Trees production in Columbus, Ohio, has an appropriate costume. By Donna Laipply Sewing has been a part of her life since she was four or five years old; that’s when Stacy Householder began sewing on buttons for her grandmother. Today she is

Editor’s Note: August 2008 will mark the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Brethren movement. A group of eight people braved the waters of the Eider River in Schwarzenau, Germany (and possible persecution), to begin a new congregation patterned after the New Testament church. For the next few issues, FGBC World will look at

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Ted Rondeau Ted Rondeau tells the story like it’s the plot in a television crime drama or a scene from a movie like Bonnie and Clyde. It’s a chronicle that rivals any Hollywood script — young, romantic dreamers running from the law with plenty of dramatic conflict. But the story is the candid account of

Ted Rondeau “I would not have made it on my own were it not for the men that have helped me along the way,” says Ted Rondeau, the 47-year-old businessman and Grace Brethren International Missions staffer who experienced a dramatic transformation at age 18 in a Florida jail. “It can make a profound difference for