The latest edition of CE National’s Pastorpedia is available online. Knute Larson, Jim Brown, and Jeff Bogue take on the subject of shepherding or caring for people with needs.[...]
Our attention has been drawn to this post which features a Grace College volleyball player (currently in the Middle East) and her NFL player brother. Kaitlin Kerrigan is with the Grace College volleyball team on a two-week tour of Isreal. Her brother, Ryan, plays for the Washington Redskins. A portion of the story appears below. Click here for the complete article […][...]
Today on the Facebook page for the Southern California-Arizona District of Grace Brethren Churches (Southwest Brethren), Roy Halberg, pastor at Grace Fellowship of Alta Loma, Calif., shared this story of God’s protection. GOD IS GOOD!! Our church in Alta Loma has a boy scout troop that meets in our facilities during the week. They are present in the building most […][...]
From Kay Carver, who formerly served with Encompass World Partners in Chad, has reported that Encompass staff in Chad is safe following several suicide bombings in the country yesterday. Below is what she posted on the Not Alone Crisis Responders page on Facebook and shared here with her permission. Ndjamena Chad , June 15; 9:30am ~ A bomb was detonated at […][...]
Have you ever said you would gladly pray more if you only knew for what to pray? Perhaps the following will help you. Sunday: Pray for your relatives—your father, mother, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins. If any are not saved, pray for their salvation. Monday: Pray for your friends—your playmates in the neighborhood and at school. Pray especially for those […][...]
On Sunday, June 14, the congregation of the Grace Brethren Church of Calvert County in Owings, Md., gathered to celebrate the retirement of their long-time pastor, Robert Wagner. Blogger and videographer, Joanna Pearson, prepared several videos that were shown Sunday evening and shared on her blog. They are shared here with her permission.[...]
“When we started praying about moving to Ocala, that became the focus – the move to Ocala,” remembered Ryan Gagnon, who with his wife, Sarah, and their two children, left their long-time home in Sebring, Fla., to help with a Grace Brethren church re-plant in a community more than two hours away. Ryan and Sarah thought it was about transplanting […][...]
Chuck Davis, executive director of Caribbean Vision Ministries, has sent this note after his wife, Millie, suffered a stroke recently. Continue to pray for Millie and Chuck as she recovers. Thank you for praying for my wife Millie for the last several weeks following a stroke that occurred shortly after we returned from Haiti. After an ER visit, a family […][...]
Estella Gibbons Salisbury, who attends the Grace Brethren Church, Chico, Calif. (Matthew Raley, pastor), celebrated her 100th birthday on June 8. Below is a story from a recent issue of the Chico Enterprise-Record. Estella Gibbons Salisbury celebrates her 100th birthday on Monday. She was born June 8, 1915, in Marysville, to Leroy and Georgia Gibbons. Her family traveled from Ohio […][...]
The C-Span broadcast of the lecture of Grace College history professor, Dr. Jared Burkholder, is now online. In the class, first aired (and recorded) in February, Professor Burkholder talks about the differences between pacifist groups in the American revolution. He argues that application of pacifist principles was far from unified. Even if members of what he calls peace churches abstain […][...]
A longtime member of the Grace Brethren Church, Sunnyside, Wash. (Nathan Zakahi, pastor), is featured in the Sunnyside, Wash., Daily Sun News. Pauline Padgham Shockley is getting ready to celebrate her 100th birthday. Below is a portion of the story. Click here for the complete article. Love of life could explain why Sunnyside woman is looking forward to her 100th […][...]
Bruce Brickel, who served as manager of the BMH Print Shop for many years and who oversaw the production of BMH Book projects, the Brethren Missionary Herald magazine, and printing projects for many Grace Brethren organizations, died on Thursday, June 11. Services are June 18, 2015, at the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church. His obituary appears below. Bruce Allen […][...]
The ministerial examining board of the Southern California-Arizona District of Grace Brethren Churches has recommended that Grace Church, Orange, Calif., ordain Brian Zuniga to the ministry. He recently completed his ordination exam (see photo at right). (In the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, a prospective pastor is examined by elders in the district and is ordained by his local congregation upon […][...]
Seven years ago, April Figueroa, the wife of Frank L. Figueroa Jr., pastor of Waipio Grace Brethren Church in Mililani, Hawaii, was diagnosed with cancer. To cope with the stress of the illness, Frank and April decided to go to the gun range with some friends to get rid of some anxiety. “That really helped her focus and release some of the stress,” […][...]
from the Sunnyside, Wash., Daily Sun-News: In a matter of moments an 85-year-old house at 612 S. Seventh St. in Sunnyside was no more as a demolition crew tore it down yesterday morning, Monday. The property is owned by the neighboring Grace Brethren Church. According to Chuck Winter, this house was located immediately next to the educational wing of the Sunnyside Grace […][...]
Plans are being made for the next Charis International Leadership Encounter (CILE 2015), which will be held November 2-6 in Bangkok, Thailand. During CILE 2015, key leaders from Grace Brethren churches in their respective countries will meet to discuss matters of common interest and to make plans for cooperation and mutual support. Among the items they will consider is the […][...]
Nell Sunukjian, adjunct professor in Christian Ministry and Leadership at Talbot School of Theology in LaMirada, California, is leading the Women’s Ministry Exchange this morning in Indiana. The event is sponsored by Women of Grace USA. She is talking about “Maintaining Your Own Spiritual Integrity as a Leader.” She also discussed how to build and develop a team. Also helping […][...]
News about the new Battambang School and Training Center being constructed by Asia’s Hope in Cambodia has been posted at asiashope.org. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Battambang School And Training Center: Construction Update It’s only been three months since a the staff, children, and a group of Asia’s Hope supporters, gathered […][...]
Registration for workshops and Riskursians at Flinch Conference, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, are now available. (The conference will be held Thursday, July 23- Sunday, July 26 at the Newark International Airport Marriott adjacent to New York City.) Workshops are offered Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11:15 – 12:15. Workshop topics range from church planting, leadership [&helli[...]
What do you do when someone who is a part of your family is suffering? You suffer alongside them. At least, that is what the Grace Brethren Church in Osceola, Ind. (Greg Serafino, pastor) did. When 30-year member Mary Keller contracted breast cancer in April of 2013, pastors Greg Serafino and Dave Knight sought to find a way to come alongside her with […][...]