On Tuesday, September 7, 2021, many believers will join at 8 p.m. (EDT) to pray specifically for the Afghan people and nation. Working in partnership with Charis Fellowship and the Eagle Commission, Encompass World Partners Crisis Response will host an online prayer time that will include: An interview with a couple serving on-the-ground with Afghans. Input from others serving with […][...]
The first episodes of the next set of Charis Beliefs videos have been released. These may be used in preparing men for ordination or in various applications within the local church context. Among the initial releases are: Angels, Demons, and Satan with Kip Cone The Christian Life with Freddy Cardoza The One True God with Rock LaGioia What We Believe […][...]
An historic vote on Tuesday night was the last hurdle in the proposed merger of the Brethren Missionary Herald Company, dba GraceConnect and BMH Books, and the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Church, dba Charis Fellowship. In an online session that constituted the 2021 official business meeting, delegates from various churches from around the Charis Fellowship approved the plan of merger […][...]
Terri Firestone, wife of Reid Firestone, who pastored the Grace Brethren Church in Homerville, Ohio, from 2012 until his retirement, has died. Her obituary appears below. Teresa ‘Terri’ Firestone, 62, of Ashland, Ohio, passed into eternity Monday, August 30, 2021 at LSS The Good Shepherd in Ashland, Ohio. She was born in Dayton, Ohio to Dennis and Margaret (Hollinger) Miller […][...]
Jeff Dunithan is a member of the international men’s ministry Fight Club. The discipleship program was founded in 2011 by Jim Brown, lead pastor at Grace Community Church, a Charis Fellowship congregation in Goshen, Ind., and has more than 100 charters worldwide. Over the past 10 years, the Goshen Fight Club has seen thousands of men walk through the program. […][...]
Dan Schlatter (BS 95) and Marla (Rueck BA 95 MAIM 03) Schlatter have strikingly similar stories of coming to Grace College. They both grew up on the mission field: Dan in Brazil and Marla in Austria; they both came to Grace for its strong education program; and they both needed a school that would accept their abundance of Bible credits. […][...]
U.S.-based Haitian pastors are ministering in Haiti following the devastating earthquake on August 25, 2021. They are hoping to provide relief to people devastated by the earthquake and the subsequent flooding. “They went under the auspices of CVM (Caribbean Vision Ministries). They left August 30, and will return to Florida on September 15,” says Dumont Cardichon. “They will drive or fly […][...]
“Did you see her smile?” Andrew Simkins, a volunteer at the Room at the Table, asked as Stacy Engle’s foster daughter picked out items. Together, they filled multiple bags with a wide variety of items. Room at the Table is a ministry for foster and adoptive families in Kosciusko County, Ind. (or those fostering children from the county). Similar to […][...]
In its six years of its existence, the Grace women’s golf program has been very adept at producing firsts: first tournament win, first All-League performer, first NCCAA National Championship, first individual NCCAA All-American and the first NAIA national ranking. Heading into year number seven, Coach Denny Duncan and the Lancers aim to add another first to the list: NAIA national team qualifier. The team […][...]
Grace College announced that Jeff Raymond has accepted a job at Westmont College (Calif.). Raymond will be assuming the role of compliance administrator for the Warriors. He is no stranger to Westmont, however, after working as the school’s first full-time sports information director from 1997-2004. Raymond served as Grace’s track and field coach and assistant athletic director for 11 years. Most recently, [&hellip[...]
Shaelyn Atkins of Bremen, Indiana, graduated from the Bethel University Nursing Program at Grace College in May. Now, she works on the pediatrics floor of Memorial Hospital in South Bend as a registered nurse — half of the floor being cancer patients with no immune systems at their defense in the wake of COVID-19. “The job isn’t always easy,” said Atkins. But […][...]
The Grace College women’s tennis team enters the 2021-22 season on the heals of another stellar campaign. Despite the setbacks and delays caused by COVID, the Lancers tied a school record with 14 wins a year ago and finished third in the Crossroads League for the third straight year. Coach Marcus Moore was voted the NCCAA National Coach of the Year at […][...]
ABC57 in South Bend, Ind., carries a report about Grace College students returning to classes. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to view and read the complete story. Grace College students return to class for 2021-22 school year Students at Grace College are returning to the classroom this week, and this school year will look a little different […][...]
“Keep climbing” could be the rallying cry for the women’s cross-country program in 2021. They took significant steps a year ago, receiving votes in the NAIA polls for the first time in school history and qualifying two individuals for the NAIA championships for the first time since 1985. With the majority of the team returning and a strong incoming class, […][...]
Growth. Development. Maturation. The definition of any of those words is what Coach Jake Poyner hopes describes his men’s cross-country squad. After being one of the youngest teams mentioned in the NAIA polls a year ago, the goal for 2021 is to show continued improvement and establish a place among the elite teams in country. “We’ve been using the phrase, ‘It takes […][...]
Coming off a NCCCA National Championship, a Sweet 16 finish in the NAIA, and a school record for wins in a season, the Lancer men’s tennis team has a tall order in front of them if they want to show improvement in 2021-22. However, with six of their top seven players returning—including three All-Crossroads League honorees—Coach Andy Lewis and the Lancers appear […][...]
The disciples Jesus brought with him to the Garden of Gethsemane were unimaginably exhausted. Not only was it after a large meal, but the previous days had been intense with emotional, physical, and spiritual upheaval. When Jesus asked Peter and the sons of Zebedee to sit with him in the garden in Matthew 25, sleep was inevitable. One could hardly […][...]
“Foster care and adoption saved our lives.” Fifteen years ago, Stacey Gagnon was working as a teacher when a new student in her class had an emotional and mental breakdown. When she took him aside and asked what was wrong, he replied, “I was taken from my home last night, and I don’t know the woman I’m staying with and […][...]
You’ve arrived at your dorm room! As you start to unpack your things and meet your roommates, your Residence Life Director and Assistant Residence Life Director introduce themselves to you. You don’t really know what they do or how they can help you, (beyond helping carry in boxes from your car.) But they seem genuinely interested in getting to know […][...]
A new monograph by Samuel Funkhouser, In the Line of Duty: A History and Theological Analysis of early English-Language Brethren Hymn Books and Hymnals, 1791-1884, is now available from the Brethren Encyclopedia, Inc. In the Line of Duty tells the story of how the hymn writers of the English evangelical tradition and, later, revivalism, transformed not only the hymnody but […][...]