The Grace College athletic website www.GCLancers.com earned three national top-10 awards at this week’s NAIA-SIDA National Convention. The newly redesigned website was launched less than a year ago in June 2013. At the national convention in Orlando, Fla., Grace’s athletic website tied for 10th place in the “Outsourced Websites” contest and was tops among the Crossroads League members. The Lancers’[...]
Grace’s softball team earned a plethora of postseason awards after the 2014 season, highlighted by All-American Brooke Shell. Shell was named NCCAA First Team All-American and honorable mention NAIA All-American after an outstanding season. She set three single-season records in 2014, including the most hits (94), most runs (64) and most stolen bases (38) in team history. Additionally, Shell moved […][...]
Proverbs 20:1; 23:20–21, 29–33; Romans 14:19–21; Ephesians 5:15–18 Exercise Wisdom (Prov. 20:1) The Bible is very clear on the subject of abusing alcohol. To get drunk is to sin, and sin and the addiction to it have grave consequences, both temporal and eternal. The same principle can be applied to the use of illegal drugs. The book of Proverbs contrasts […][...]
Perched neatly on the edges of four major interstates, Greencastle, Pa., is a literal “hub-city” for millions of travelers. It is also a hub for the homeless and those struggling financially, who end up caught between cities without money or transportation. Paul and Denise Hutchison witnessed that reality upon meeting a girl with a black eye and no place to […][...]
Outstanding students from Grace Brethren High School, a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church, Simi Valley, Calif., were profiled this week in the Simi Valley Acorn. Meet Fredie Cordon, Anjali Lobana, Ashley Whitcomb, and Rachel Wood. Click here to read their complete profiles.[...]
Don Shoemaker, pastor emeritus at Grace Community Church, Seal Beach, Calif., was part of an article in the Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram on May 29, 2014, about the chaplains’ program at the Seal Beach Police Department. We’ve published a portion of it below. Click here to read the complete article. Police chaplain’s support in aftermath of Seal Beach Salon Meritage […][...]
Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in Goshen, Ind. (Jim Brown, pastor) will be front and center this week on a new reality show on the Game Show Network. “It Takes A Church” is a matchmaking show hosted by Grammy and Dove award-winning artist Natalie Grant. A story in Saturday’s Goshen News tells the story. A portion of the […][...]
Gladys Deloe, wife of former BMH staff member, Jesse Deloe, was recognized Thursday night for her service to the Warsaw and Kosciusko County, Ind., community. She and Jesse are members of the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor). Below is a portion of a story about her award from the online news site, Stacey Page Online. […][...]
Graduation at Grace Brethren High School, Simi Valley, Calif., was featured recently in the Simi Valley Acorn. The high school is a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church in Simi Valley (Jordan Bakker, pastor). A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Grads get one last lesson in faith Students graduating from Grace Brethren […][...]
A nonprofit engineering organization which is poised to become a cooperating ministry within the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches will host a fundraiser next week at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Design Outreach is one of five organizations that will be considered as a cooperating organization in the FGBC at next month’s FellowShift Vision Conference in Washington, D.C. The Columbus […][...]
BMH Books author, Hannah Estabrook (she co-authored Beyond Desolate with Tammy Schultz), is featured this week on the MTL Magazine blog. A portion of the post appears below. Click here to read the complete article. The Dirge Before the Dance: Learning to Lament Child Sexual Abuse It’s an odd thing. Jesus wept. Job wept. David wept. Jeremiah wept. They did […][...]
A story on the online news site, Stacey Page Online, details a new initiative that include support from Grace College’s Center for Lakes & Streams (Winona Lake, Ind.). A portion of the story appears below. Click here for the complete article. New Initiative Promotes Clean Water The Tippecanoe Watershed Foundation announces a new partnership for clean water initiative for the Upper […][...]
Capt. Pete Stone, Grace Brethren chaplain in the U.S. Army, recently sent a reminder of why we pray for our military chaplains—who often have seemingly unintentional conversations that have eternal results. Chaplain Stone (pictured at right with his wife, Monica), serves with the 1-160th SOAR (A) located at Ft. Campbell, Ky. He will soon be deployed and will not be […][...]
One year ago, the GraceConnect eNews launched with a story about About My Father’s Business Outreach Ministries in Washington, D.C. (Stephen Joyce, pastor). Since then, we’ve told stories about ministries and people in Grace Brethren churches from coast to coast. We’ve reported on new churches that have been established, told about cutting-edge ministries in the Grace Brethren churches, and profiled […[...]
A modern American parable A little boy went to a parade and heard a band for the first time. He liked the horns—the trumpets, the trombones, the baritones, and the tubas. Especially the tubas. That summer, his grandpa took him to the park where a band played as part of the celebration of Independence Day. When the band played Sousa’s, […][...]
Today’s Akron Beacon Journal carries a story about a memorial fund that has been established to help the family of Pete Radke, a member of Grace Church Bath Campus, a Grace Brethren congregation in Akron, Ohio (Jeff Bogue, senior pastor). A portion of the article appears below. Click here to read the complete story. Memorial funds set up to help […][...]
Ryan Rodeman, adult ministries pastor at Grace Church Bath Campus, Akron, Ohio, was interviewed by the Cleveland television station, Fox 8, regarding the weekend drowning death of Peter Radke. Radke attended the church with his wife and four children. Click here to see the video. A portion of the story also appears below. Man who died rescuing woman in water […][...]
A member of the congregation at Grace Church, Bath Campus, a Grace Brethren church in Akron, Ohio (Jeff Bogue, senior pastor), has died trying to save a struggling swimmer in Lake Erie. Peter Radke, a small group leader at the church whose wife sings in the worship band, died while helping to rescue a teenage girl. Today’s Akron Beacon Journal […][...]
The story below appeared in the GraceConnect eNews, No. 49, Week of May 26, 2014. Click here for the results of the 2014 Grace Race. It’s so much more than a 5k. And the whole community thinks so. This Memorial Day, the 4th Annual Grace Race 5k is taking place at Copley High School in northern Ohio. Organized by the Bath Campus […][...]
Barb Wooler, director of emergency relief efforts for Encompass World Partners, has provided an update on the Africa Food Relief project. It includes: two truckloads of seed and gardening tools left Bangui for three drop-off points to the north: Bossembele, Yaloke and Bossangoa. From those three towns most of the 20+ Grace Brethren Churches that host Hand in Hand orphan […][...]