The surfing ministry among Japanese students in southern California is one way to build relationships and camaraderie, allowing Nao Makino and intern Joshua Chandler to more easily share Jesus with them. Learn more about this ministry in this video, which was first shown at FellowShift, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, in Washington, D.C., in July […][...]
What is the right way to apply Jesus’ statement, “Judge not, that ye be not judged? It’s pretty common to hear someone quote or paraphrase Matthew 7:1, in which Jesus says, “Judge not, that ye be not judged” (KJV). Sometimes the person quoting the passage is objecting to being criticized for his behavior. His implication is that Jesus’ statement forbids […][...]
Point of Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Park Hall, Md., is a daughter church of Grace Chapel Ministries of Southern Maryland. Meet Arthur Shepherd, pastor of Point of Grace, and Carl Snyder, pastor of Grace Chapel, as they talk about the development of new churches in their region. This video was first shown at FellowShift, the national conference […][...]
“Am I really allowed to do this?” This statement has been heard more than once at the Winona Lake (Ind.) Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor), when newer people have been invited to get involved in a ministry team. After being spectators in their churches for many years, people feel excitement when they become team members and realize that […][...]
Iglesia Comunal La Esperanza, Valrico, Fla., is a small Grace Brethren congregation of mostly Spanish-speaking people. “[We have] no more than 70 people, 35 of them kids and teenagers,” says Pastor Javier Forero. But they are still big enough to plant another church. “Every Tuesday, for five years, we have had a food pantry ministry,” explains the pastor. The pantry […][...]
Grace College faculty member, Dr. Nate Bosch, was quoted in a recent article on the online news site, Stacey Page Online. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Research, Trails Program Topics At SLA Meeting “Making Syracuse Lake Clean, Healthy, Safe and Beautiful” was the topic presented by Dr. Nate Bosch, director of […][...]
Twenty years ago last month, Randy Moomaw began writing songs for vacation Bible school (VBS) at Grace Church, a Grace Brethren church in Wooster, Ohio (Bob Fetterhoff, senior pastor). Moomaw had already worked with the church’s VBS for about five years before he began creating the music. “We did the packaged stuff,” he recalled, “and after a while, I kind of wondered […][...]
Darrin and Heidi Hess, members of Grace Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Wooster, Ohio (Bob Fetterhoff, pastor) were recently featured in the Wooster, Ohio, Daily Record. They told the story of their community ministry — S.O.W.N. Together ministry. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. WOOSTER-BASED SERVICE MINISTRY, S.O.W.N. TOGETHER, REACHING OUT […][...]
Grace Brethren Boys, a ministry for young men in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, is sponsoring its first Timothy Adventure this week. Rob Gable, executive director, sent us this report: Timothy Adventure (TA) is a special leadership development trip planned every four years for committed young men who have shown potential as future leaders within the ministry. The focused […][...]
From CE National… Each year, Operation Barnabas leaders and staff select an individual, group, or church to receive an award named in honor of Roger Ward (Grace Brethren Church, Norwalk, Calif.). While the students on OB are being trained in what it means to be “a son or daughter of encouragement,” there are people who far out serve the teams […][...]
The ministry of reconciliation is the focus of the 2014-2015 Women’s Spectrum, the annual magazine for Grace Brethren women that is published by Women of Grace USA. Written by Grace Brethren women, the stories in the issue are told with honesty, transparency, and great courage about battles fought and won through the grace of God and the power of his […][...]
Hosea 4:1–9; 5:13–15 The Reality of Sin (4:1–3) The scene painted by Hosea is that of a courtroom in which God sues His people for breach of contract/covenant. In this case however, no well-groomed, well-spoken, sophisticated lawyer can get Israel off the justice hook because God is Plaintiff, Judge and Jury. First God observes what is missing — namely, faithfulness […][...]
Conference attendees at FellowShift, the 2014 national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, had the opportunity to send greetings to Tom Julien, missionary-statesman, who was not able to attend the conference. At the all-FGBC lunch on Sunday, Tom shared, via video, the history of the Château de Saint Albain, and was also honored by CE National with a […][...]
Pastor William Lee Stevens (Pastor Bill) of Warsaw, Ind., went home to be with the Lord at 5:37 a.m. on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at Grace Village Rehab in Winona Lake, Ind., at the age of 81. He was a graduate of Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., receiving his BA in Speech and Bible. He attended the Terry Art […][...]
Several northern Indiana Grace Brethren churches are partnering with other local congregations this Fall to produce a Bible conference for pastors and church leaders in their region. Let’s Know the Bible will be held Saturday, September 13, 2014, at the Russell Center, 1003 Presidential Drive, Winona Lake, Ind. Sessions begin at 8 a.m. and conclude at Noon. The conference is cosponsored by […][...]
“Our fellowship is made up up lots of different life stages, lots of different sizes, and lots of different states, and many different demographics. But there’s one common thread. What other word would describe the kind of love and common mission and bond that exists in our fellowship other than the word family… Movement Church has the DNA of those […][...]
Twelve of Grace College’s athletic programs received the academic distinction of being NAIA Scholar-Teams for the 2013-14 season. Grace landed two squads in the nation’s top 100 overall for GPA, including women’s soccer and women’s tennis. The women’s soccer team, coached by Michael Voss, led all NAIA women’s soccer programs with a sparkling 3.75 GPA. It was the team’s third straight [[...]
Grace College athletics completed a successful 2014 Lancer Golf Classic on Monday, July 28, with the cooperation of Stonehenge Golf Club near Winona Lake, Ind. The outing featured a morning and afternoon flight that totaled more than 110 golfers in the fundraising event. Grace coaches Jim Kessler, Jeff Raymond, Michael Voss, Andria Harshman,Scott Blum, Matt Hotchkin, Larry Schuh, Jon Hoover and Skip Forbes were on hand as were[...]
Pastor Gilbert Eugene Hawkins of Warsaw, Ind., died at 11:46 p.m. on Sunday, July 27, 2014, at Lutheran Hospital of Fort Wayne, Ind., at the age of 86. He was a resident of Kosciusko County, Ind., for the past 13 years where he was a member of Lakeland Grace Brethren Church of Warsaw. Gilbert attended Multnomah Bible College in Portland, […][...]
From the beginning of Jim Brown’s ministry as senior pastor at Grace Community Church, Grace Brethren congregation in Goshen, Ind., he noticed “the flight of men from the local church.” Brown saw women and families coming to Grace alone. Even for those men in attendance, he remembered, the men’s church ministries simply weren’t “capturing their hearts, weren’t making them come alive. “If you were […][...]