From today’s St. Petersburg, Florida, Times:Church’s porch in right of wayThe contractor asks for forgiveness. Community residents and leaders are not much inclined. The county will decide. By JACKIE RIPLEY, Times Staff WriterPublished June 30, 2006 ——————————————————————————–TOWN ‘N COUNTRY – When church leaders envisioned a new sanctuary on Webb Road 10 years ago, they pictured […]

Today is the 50th wedding anniversary of Jesse and Gladys Deloe of Winona Lake, Indiana. Jesse and the former Gladys Mighells were married in Randolph, New York, on June 29, 1956. Jesse, whose father was a printer for a Washington, D.C., newspaper and later was a linotype operator for The Brethren Missionary Herald, has been

Mike Jentes has pulled together all our blog entries and photos from DRIVEN06, just concluded this past Sunday, into a “final wrap.” To read through the entire string, click here: http://www.driven07.org/driven06wrap.html

Grace Brethren North American Missions, in cooperation with Grace Theological Seminary, is offering a class on church planting this August. The class will be a weeklong experience in Winona Lake, Indiana, from August 14-18, 2006. The focus will be on the basic understanding and skills necessary for starting a congregation in most North American cultural

Keith Shearer (pictured), moderator this year of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches and pastor of New Beginnings Grace Brethren Church in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, asks the following question: HOW WILL WE KNOW WE HAVE EXPERIENCED THE FIRE?? -at national conference this year? -in the churches of the FGBC? He says, “This is an excellent question

Drew Waggoner, pictured here with his wife, Nicole, and children, is the new Associate Pastor at Grace Fellowship, the Grace Brethren church in Pickerington, Ohio (Keith Minier, pastor). Most of Waggoner’s time will be focused on youth ministry, but he will also oversee the children’s ministry, fill the pulpit occasionally, oversee the care ministry, and

After nearly a week’s delay which included an airline going bankrupt, the unexpected stranding of a team in Mexico City, and much more, the Operation Barnabas International team has finally arrived in Brazil, almost a week later than intended. Here is a portion of their message this noon: “Welcome to Brazil, OBI! After nearly a

Executive Pastor Tom Abbitt (pictured) reports that Warsaw (IN) Community Grace Brethren Church celebrated its 50th anniversary this past week with a full week of service projects. Members of the church went into all facets of the local community with their sleeves rolled up, ready to do whatever they could. (Kevin Lilly photo) Activities began

Research results being released for the first time in the July/August edition of Facts & Trends magazine show most people who attend a Protestant church are using Christian media–magazines, websites, television, radio, movies, and music–but Christian media is only a fraction of the media churchgoers use. Protestant clergy, on the other hand, are much heavier

The Association of Grace Brethren Ministers (AGBM) has been circulating a document with significant changes to the bylaws which will be discussed and acted upon at the upcoming AGBM meetings during Celebrate06 in California. The proposed documents are available on www.agbm.org under “document archive.” The Mid-Atlantic District (MAD) ministerium, chaired by Doug Courter and Jay