A Total Mobilization Support Ministries team has been ministering in Sisophon, Cambodia, January 8-25, and is just about to conclude its ministry and return home. The team is made up of 30 people from seven churches including California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri and Canada. Lititz, PA, Pastor Scott Distler included the following update today in […]

Longtime Grace Brethren pastor Bob Kliewer, who is currently part of the Cherry Valley Grace Brethren Church in Beaumont, California, has been in severely declining health lately, primarily with issues relating to his heart. Pastor Roy Halberg of the Alta Loma church has been visiting him regularly, sending health updates. So that you may pray

Pastor Charles Ashman sent along this update on Tom Avey’s heart surgery late Sunday afternoon: The surgery on Tom is complete and he will be in the ICU in the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA. I just received the word and it did turn out to be a quadruple bypass. The doctor said

Late word received Saturday afternoon through Pastor Charles Ashman is that Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey is scheduled for bypass surgery tomorrow morning (Sunday, January 22) at 7:30 a.m. California time. Doctors have told him the surgery will be about 2 1/2 hours in length, and he will then need to spend 3-4 days in the

Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey, who suffered chest pains on Friday while checking out the site of next summer’s Celebration06 national conference in southern California, has been hospitalized, is undergoing tests, and may have to face surgery. Avey is currently in the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA, the same facility where former president Gerald

This week we received the following unsolicited review of Ed Jackson’s self-published book, Faith Stranger Than Fiction, a 342-page paperback published in 2004, from Pastor Jim Franklin of the Flora, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church. Here is Pastor Jim’s review: Recently this writer had the pleasure of receiving a copy of Ed Jackson’s Faith Stranger than

Steve Mitchell, pictured here with his wife, Supriya, has accepted a call to pastor Garden City Grace Brethren Church in Roanoke, Virginia, and will begin his ministry there the first part of February. Mitchell, who is the son of Pastor Dave Mitchell in Hawaii, is a 1997 graduate of the University of Hawaii with a

Yesterday’s Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal newspaper carried the following announcement about Grace College and Seminary graduate Knute Larson (pictured) and the announcement of his successor. Chapel’s next pastor former church stafferThe Rev. Knute Larson yet to retire, but the Rev. Paul Sartarelli is new hire scheduled to succeed himBy Colette M. Jenkins The Akron area’s largest

The following appeared this week in the Kenai (Alaska) Peninsula Clarion newspaper: Embroiderers sought for new clubAn embroiderers’ club meets from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays at Kenai Grace Brethren Church at the corner of McCollum and the Kenai Spur Highway. Embroiderers are invited to bring machines or laptops to share ideas and helpful

Representatives of all Grace Brethren national organizations met today at noon with the leadership of Brethren National Youth Conference 2006 to discuss how each organization will be involved. More than 2,600 teens are expected to attend the event, which will be held on the campus of Biola University in La Mirada, California, July 22 through