Tracey and Marie Owen, retired from careers in graphic arts and nursing, now give several months a year to leading project teams for Roving Volunteers in Christ’s Service (RVICS)By Paul Hoard Retirement for Tracey and Marie Owen holds much more than just afternoons of Bocce Ball and winters in Florida. This couple, from Winona Lake […]
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Dr. Charles Feinberg’s masterwork on the two major views of millennialism has been re-issued by BMH Books with updated graphics and is now available for shipping. Millennialism: The Two Major Views, a 400-page paperback classic, carefully and systematically lays out the biblical interpretation systems for both the premillennial and amillennial views. In a foreword, Grace
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Brethren Missionary Herald Company is making a special offer to Grace Brethren churches and their missions committees who choose to use Tom Julien’s new book, Antioch Revisited, as a study and resource guide for missions committees and mission strategy planners. The book, which presents the fictional but true-to-life story of “John,” a missionary who comes
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John McIntosh At the delegates’ luncheon at Celebrate06, Pastor John McIntosh of Simi Valley, California, was elected Second Moderator-Elect of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC), which means he will be moderator of the FGBC for the year following Jim Brown. Tim Boal is moderator 2006-2007, Jim Brown will be 2007-2008, and McIntosh will
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By Liz Cutler Gates A vacation to Europe more than 20 years ago cut short a successful teaching career while inspiring an up-and-coming author. “I didn’t start out to be a writer,” says Karen Harper, the teacher-turned-novelist who now has more than 40 mystery, suspense, and historical books to her credit. “I was an English
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A free seminar entitled “At Work on Purpose” featuring business consultant Chuck Proudfit (pictured) will be held at Westminster Hall on the Grace College campus in Winona Lake, Indiana, from 10 a.m. until noon on Saturday, September 30. Open to all without charge, the seminar is being sponsored by the business and alumni departments of
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Grace Community Church, the Grace Brethren church at 1725 Salem Road, Virginia Beach, Virginia, will celebrate its 50-year reunion as a church on Saturday, September 16, 2006, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Celebration will feature the Olivet Praise Band from Olivet Christian Church in Newport News, lots of memories and pictures, and guest
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Pentagon firefighter Larry Everett faced a physical wall of fire on 9/11. (See 9/11 Firefighter Remembers ‘Taste of Hell’ at Pentagon.) But the Bible says that anyone who has not received Christ as Savior will experience a very real “lake of fire” forever. Because of man’s sin, the bond that had existed between God and
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Nick Vujicic, who was born without arms and legs, gave a powerful message to teens on Sunday night of the youth conference. He laced his talk with self-deprecating humor. Brethren National Youth Conference, the annual gathering of more then 2,500 teens sponsored by CE National, met on the Biola University campus in LaMirada, California, the
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With the Lord Harold D. Painter was promoted to his eternal home on June 8, 2006, at the age of 95. Painter committed his life to Christian service at about age 36 when he left a managerial career in Ohio with his wife and four children to enroll in the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.
