Received Thursday morning: Our family thanks each of you for praying for Abigail and the uncertainty of her injuries at the moment of our first request. We have learned that Abby has a fractured skull at the upper left side of her head along with some internal bleeding in the head. Her lungs are bruised […]

Kevin and Lorna Kreider are a church-planting couple from the Myerstown, PA, church (Keith Shearer, pastor) who are working to begin a church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The following prayer request was received from Kevin Thursday morning: Lorna and I just received a phone call to let us know our youngest daughter Abigail was hit

Greg and Sandrine Burgess, Grace Brethren missionaries to France (Editions Cle) announce the the birth of Zachary Roland Charles Burgess. He was born Saturday January 6th at 12:10PM. He weighed 8.9 pounds and measured 20.5 inches. Greg says, “He and his mother are doing well (and so are his three sisters and father!). They came

The opinions of several Grace Brethren pastors on the subject of “house churches” are quoted in this article from the Dayton (OH) Daily News, written this past week by Brian Orme of the pastoral staff of the West Milton church. ‘Revolutionaries’ find refuge in home churches By Brian Orme There’s a new movement, a shift

For the second time in six months, Grace Brethren missionaries David and Becky Schwan (couple second from left) have participated in the wedding of one of their children, their daughter Rachel. The groom, Steve Williams, has a band which does evangelistic concerts and he also works as an information technician in a department store in

From the St. Petersburg (FL) Times. The pastor of the Port Richey church is James Poyner. The name they chose for their singing trio, Forgiven, fits us all, says Debbie Baker. “We are all forgiven through Jesus Christ,” she said during a telephone interview. Debbie, her husband, Cloid and Tank Tackett make up the Forgiven

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. (pictured) was admitted to the intensive care unit Friday with blood clots in both lungs and his condition is “quite serious,” according to a statement posted on his website Friday afternoon. Mohler, president of the school since 1993 and a highly-respected spokesperson in the

Widow For a Season: Finding Your Identity in Christ by Kristine Pappas has just been released by BMH Books of Winona Lake, IN, and is now ready for shipping. Losing her husband to pancreatic cancer in 1998 became the catalyst that drove Pappas to wrestle with the faith question, “What does it mean to trust

Pastor Scott Distler (seated in car) of the Grace Brethren Church of Lititz, PA, this past Sunday launched a new five-week “Back In the Future” sermon series with a DeLorean Time-Machine car on display in the church’s foyer. The community was invited to view the car during one of two worship services at 9:00am and

Former Grace Brethren missionary to the Central African Republic, Mary Lois Miller, 73, died Wednesday at her home in Juniata, Pennsylvania. She was born in Altoona, PA, daughter of the late I. Emory and Lucinda Jane (Brumbaugh) Miller. Surviving are a cousin, John Hillard, as well as many other cousins. Lois served in the African