I remember my first Easter as pastor in Auburn, Calif. I was excited and had some grand ideas for our congregation. We all needed a successful something. After all the negative events of recent months, our church needed a real positive. So six or seven weeks prior to the holiday, I announced a planning meeting to brainstorm about how we […][...]
Prayer is requested for Evie Wike, the two-year-old daughter of Jeremy and Tonya Wike. (He is pastor of Community of Hope Grace Brethren Church in Columbia City, Ind.) Evie joined the family in May. Prior to Evie’s adoption in China, the Wikes knew that she would need surgery as soon as possible to correct several heart defects. Tonya blogs about their […][...]
A football player at Grace Brethren High School, a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church in Simi Valley, Calif. (Jordan Bakker, senior pastor), is featured today’s Riverhead, N.Y., Local News. Zikel Reddick formerly played football at the Riverhead high school and transferred to Grace Brethren at the suggestion of a local coach. A portion of the story appears below. Click here […][...]
On June 26, U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision that allow same-sex couples the right to marry. This ruling put an end to same-sex marriage bans in 14 states and “provide an exclamation point for breathtaking changes in the nation’s social norms in recent years,” according to the Washington Post. It also put churches, including those who are part of […][...]
A recent article on the World magazine site reports on the attempts by Native Americans to be able to wear eagle feathers. Included in the report is the story of Robert Soto, a Lipan Apache and the pastor of the McAllen, Tex., Grace Brethren Church, who had eagle feathers confiscated in 2006 during a family powwow. A portion of the […][...]
Grace Brethren Boys is holding their annual Rendezvous this week at Parker Dam State Park near Penfield, Pa. “We have 78 men and boys this week from Indiana and Ohio churches,” says Rob Gable, executive director. “We have been studying ‘who are you?’ using the life of David to illustrate the many ways God sees us and who we are […][...]
Today’s Simi Valley, Calif., Acorn, has a story about the football team at Grace Brethren High School, a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church, Simi Valley, Calif. (Jordan Bakker, pastor). A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article and see additional photographs. Lancers don’t tire of San Luis Obispo POWER DRILLS—Grace Brethren High’s football […][...]
Urban church planting ministry has unique challenges. In places where Pete Forshtay ministers as congregational pastor at Crossroads Community Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), individuals and families are often entrenched in generations of poverty, family imbalance, violence, and mental illness. Sharing the gospel with individuals who come from such backgrounds is a life-changing matter of the heart, but often the outer changes are[...]
It’s Wifflefest time at the Southview Grace Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio (Mark Abel, pastor). The tourney features a game that is much like backyard baseball, except with four players instead of nine, and wiffleballs instead of baseballs. The four players are a pitcher, catcher, and two fielders. They also play on fields that have been built to 3/10 the scale of […][...]
There is still time to register for Momentum 2015, which is less than a month away. The annual youth conference, which is sponsored by CE National, will be held July 14 to 19 at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind. Students who attend Momentum will enjoy a week of sessions relating to issues pertinent to their daily lives. In addition, […][...]
The Grace Brethren Church of West Kittanning, Pa. (Larry Edwards, pastor), will celebrate it’s 100th anniversary on August 1 and 2. According to Terry White, who grew up in the church, “We’ve put together an historic slide show of about 120 slides of families and activities from the church’s history–most of them from the collection of my father, E. M. […][...]
Below is a reminder, with a special incentive if you’ve already registered, from FGBC coordinator to register for the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. If you haven’t registered, check out flinchconference.com to sign up. Only 1 week left for this drawing… Enter a drawing for a $200 prepaid credit card! Invite your friends to FlinchConference. Invite them as a […][...]
The Summer 2015 issue of GraceConnect magazine, the quarterly publication for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC), is ready to go to the printer. It is scheduled to be mailed the first full week in July. This issue will look at the topic of biblical relationships. In regional Focus Retreats over the last two years, it was one of the […][...]
The Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor) is the site of The Winona School of Professional Photography this week, as the school is hosting a “Returning to our Roots” experience. Meeting at the Hub, the community center which is owned by the church, the school is conducting courses in lighting, retouching, digital portraits, available light photography, […][...]
From CE National: Operation Barnabas orientation has begun! Students from around the globe gathered at CE National’s headquarters in Winona Lake, Ind., to begin their summer ministry team experience. Visit tours.operationbarnabas.net/2015 to read reports, see pictures, and sign up for regular emails.[...]
The online news site, Ink Free News, has noted that Dr. Nate Bosch, director of the Center for Lakes and Streams at Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., has received recognition for a paper recently published in the Journal of Great Lake Research in 2015. Below is a portion of the story. Click here to read the complete article. LAKES & STREAMS DIRECTOR AWARDED […][...]
Today’s online news site, Ink Free News, includes a story about Grace College Professor Cindy Bryan paining a storm drain in front of the Center Park pavilion in Warsaw, Ind. It is part of an art integration project that she will teach next year at the college. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete […][...]
More than 40 participants from Grace Church, Wooster, Ohio (Bob Fetterhoff, senior pastor) are in Georgia this week to “Encounter Atlanta.” The team prepared for weeks by learning about different religions and world views, and by preparing a Vacation Bible School (VBS) program for local evening ministry. The team of high school students kicked off the week of VBS with enthusiasm […][...]
Four members of Grace’s women’s tennis team were honored as Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes. Sarah Hinkel, Jessica Lokotar, Julia Marsh and Lydia Marsh received the national academic distinction from the NAIA. Grace’s four NAIA Scholar-Athletes were second in the Crossroads League, behind only IWU with five. To receive Scholar-Athlete honors, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scal[...]
Grace College announces that Katie Van Hofwegen will serve as the next volleyball head coach for the Lady Lancers. Van Hofwegen comes from The University of Virginia-Wise (NCAA Div. II) where she served as the top assistant coach since 2012. She has a wide berth of volleyball experience that spans across the country. Van Hofwegen played collegiate volleyball at Shorter […][...]