The countdown to DRIVEN06, the second-annual young adults conference in the FGBC, is now down to hours. The fun starts this Thursday, June 22, with registration beginning at 5:30 p.m. on the historic Kenyon College campus in Gambier, Ohio, near Columbus. It’s a great program again this year–Thursday evening’s speaker is Kondo Simfukwe and other […]

Kurt Miller and Mike Jentes, on the GBNAM church-planting blog, have put together a very helpful and valuable list of IRS documents and regulations for churches. They’re excellent for anyone starting a church, but also provide a good “checkup” for existing churches. Check out their list and links by clicking here.

Sunday, June 18 – Father’s Day! Well, Dan was just released from the hospital an hour or so ago. Turns out he developed an infection because of the strong antibiotics he was taking. (Sounds contradictory, but it’s true.) He is feeling much better and has been given permission to return to normal activities within a

From the St. Petersburg (FL) Times. Pastor of the Port Richey church is Jim Poyner. Vacation Bible School’s InFor many children in Pasco, summer opens the book on both fun and faith at local churches. By MICHELLE JONES, Times Staff WriterPublished June 17, 2006 It wouldn’t be summer in Pasco’s faith community without vacation Bible

Friday, June 16, 2006 Well, we had hoped that hospital stays would only be a memory, but circumstances have changed over the last 24 hours. This morning Dan was readmitted to Lutheran Hospital becuase of a reoccurring fever. His condition seems stable, but the doctor is wanting to identify the source of infection. He will

From the Altoona (PA) Mirror: A memorial foundation has been established through the Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation, Altoona, in memory of Aaron N. Stuckey, who died from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident on May 13, 2005. Aaron was born April 2, 1984. He attended Martinsburg Grace Brethren Church and formerly attended First Baptist Church

Visit Israel and Jordan September 25 – October 6, 2006 Visit Israel & Jordan with Pastor Bob Fetterhoff of the Wooster, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church! You are invited to experience the sights and sounds of the land you’ve read about in the Scriptures. Cost of $2899 from Cleveland includes air-fare, 1st class hotels, buffet breakfasts

From http://www.xanga.com/dan_g_update Tuesday, June 13, 2005 Today is Dan (and Jon’s) birthday. While the festivities will need to wait a few days as we begin to recuperate from this past weekend, we all were given the best present we could hope for – DAN IS HOME! During this week Dan will be mostly confined to

E. J. Dionne, Jr., op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, thinks the “mellowing of the evangelicals” will be the story of the decade. Do you agree? Here’s a paragraph from his today’s column — the entire article may be seen here. “The mellowing of evangelical Christianity may well be the big American religious story of

Who would ever have dreamed? The July/August 2006 issue of FGBC World, which is about to arrive in homes and churches, contains some photos Pastor Jay Fretz sent us of Grace Brethren National Conference held in Winona Lake, Indiana, in August of 1958. One of those photos shows passengers discharging from the “Winona Queen” sightseeing