Native New Life Church, led by Pastor Arnold Betoney, is having on the community in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This video, shown by GO2 Ministries at the recent Vision2020 South conference, introduces members of the church and how God has worked in their lives through the ministries of the church.[...]
Word has been received of the 2012 death of former Grace Brethren pastor, Dr. Harry Nonnemacher, 67, of Pensacola, Fla. Funeral services were held December 29, 2012, in Pensacola with Pastor Jerold Manley and Pastor Josh Burdick officiating. Harry graduated from Grace Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree in 1976 and a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1997. Harry […][...]
GO2 Ministries is partnering with the Institute for Leadership, led by director of urban ministries, Michel Faulkner, in Faith Fights Diabetes. In this video, first shown at Vision2020 South, Faulkner describes the Faith Fights Diabetes initiative and how it can help the local church reaching into its community.[...]
This week’s Chambersburg, Pa., Public Opinion reports on the first Car, Truck, and Motorcycle Show that was held at the Grace Brethren Church in Chambersburg (John Bayer, pastor). (It was announced in last week’s issue.) A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article. Car show at Chambersburg church benefits 3 groups that help children […][...]
GO2 Ministries’ Mission Alignment Program uses the latest church planter profile systems, demographic data profiles, and Biblical teaching to help churches and pastors identify and release church planting missionaries to the 1,765 Circles of Grace across the United States. Here’s the video that was shown at G02’s corporation meeting during Vision2020 South.[...]
SMM, the girls ministry sponsored by Women of Grace USA and affiliated with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, is celebrating 100 years and looking toward a new century of ministry with a new name. Here’s the video that was shown at Momentum Youth Conference and at Vision2020 South that announced the new name — Sisters Mentoring with a Mission. […][...]
Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind., is introducing a graduate option that allows students the opportunity to graduate with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in four years. Grace believes the new program will give students an opportunity to further their education in less time and for less money. This new blended graduate option is offered with five distinct master’s programs. Students […][...]
Grace College & Seminary and CE National have partnered to host Super Wednesdays, a quarterly event designed for the enrichment and encouragement of pastors, church leadership staff, those considering ministry, or those interested in the local church and its people. Offering five hours of information, fellowship and counsel from speakers considered experts in their field, the events are held at […][...]
Free back packs filled with school supplies, along with hair cuts, games, and just plain fun, at the annual Back to School Bash held August 4, 2013, at the Grace Brethren Church in Osceola, Ind. (Greg Serafino, pastor). Today’s online version of the South Bend, Ind., Tribune, carries a photo album of the event. Click here to see the album. […][...]
Today’s CE News reports that a new bus to be used in the Operation Barnabas discipleship ministry has been delivered. Dubbed Bus #40 (for the 40th anniversary of OB), it will be used in 2014 for the summer ministry. Read the complete story here. Perhaps the most enduring symbols of Operation Barnabas would have to be a blue bus. It is “home” to […][...]
The Kosciusko Lakes and Streams center at Grace College has received a $40,100 grant to conduct an E. coli assessment at the public swimming beaches in Warsaw, according to a recent story on StaceyPageOnline, the online news site that serves the Warsaw-Winona Lake area. The grant was awarded by the K21 Health Foundation. E. coli is a bacteria known to […][...]
Bicyclists on the UD-ND Ride for Life tour will stop at Grace College and Seminary, Winona Lake, Ind., this weekend. Sponsored by The Life Resource Centre and Dayton Right to Life, the four-day, 237-mile journey through the rolling countryside of Ohio and Indiana began Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at the University of Dayton in Ohio. It concludes Saturday, August 3, 2013, at […][...]
Grace’s softball and volleyball teams are embarking on international mission trips to close their summer breaks. The volleyball team will visit Costa Rica from July 31-Aug. 7 while the softball team will travel to the Dominican Republic from Aug. 1-9. Both trips are organized by SCORE International. The volleyball team’s trip to Costa Rica will include games, clinics and service throughout their eight-day journey. The [&hellip[...]
The Grace Brethren Church, Chambersburg, Pa. (John Bayer, pastor) is featured in the Chambersburg Public Opinion this week as they plan to host a car show to benefit the children of the church. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete story. Car show to raise funds for church playground Fast cars from eras past […][...]
The 2014 national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches will be July 17-21 at the Shoreham Omni in Washington, D.C. Here’s FGBC executive director, Bartley Sawatsky, with a glimpse of the site… Vision2020DC – The Shoreham Hotel from Grace Brethren Churches on Vimeo.[...]
New Hope Community Church of Canyon Lake, Calif., has implemented a method to develop healthy disciples while training future pastors and church planters. As part of the discipleship process, pastors Chris Suitt and Paul Krueger encourage church members to take classes at their New Hope Training Center. It offers quarterly classes in topics ranging from basic Bible study to Christology […][...]
A key component of Vision2020 South, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, this past week were mobile learning labs. Each day, conference delegates and participants boarded buses to head to various sites around Atlanta, Ga., to learn how to reach into their communities with the gospel. Labs included visits to organizations that work with the disadvantaged, […][...]
Bartley Sawatsky, the new executive director (moderator) of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, asked three things of conference delegates as he closed the annual business meeting of the FGBC on Wednesday. “Pray regularly for me and for the FGBC,” he said. “Communicate properly,” he added. “Tune in, share ideas, and be nice.” He encouraged people to deal directly with […][...]
At the Vision2020 South Conference earlier this week in Atlanta, Ga., this video introduced the new executive director for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC), Bartley Sawatsky. Sawatsky is pastor of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Mississauga, Ontario, and the first Canadian to lead the FGBC. Bob vs. Bartley from Grace Brethren Churches on Vimeo.[...]
Vision2020 South continued Monday and Tuesday at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta, Ga. About 350 people are participating in the annual conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. Monday included meals sponsored by national organizations, including breakfast sponsored by GBCanada, USA, the Grace Brethren church-planting initiative in Canada. On Monday evening, the annual Chaplains’ Appreciation[...]