News is unfolding this afternoon as police in Newtown, Conn., investigate the shooting at an elementary school there. BMH contacted Christopher Skowronek, pastor of CenterPoint Community Church, a Grace Brethren congregation in nearby Wethersfield. “We are about 45 miles from Newtown,” he wrote. “At the moment, I am unaware that anyone in our congregation was directly affected. As the details […][...]
The wedding of Doug and Ladeen Zielasko on November 24 joined four Grace Brethren missionary families: the Zielaskos, the Goodmans, the Covers, and the Futches. Doug, the son of John Zielasko and the late Suzan (Goodman) Zielasko, is the grandson of Jack and Jean Zielasko (former missionaries to Brazil and former executive director of the Foreign Missionary Society of the Grace Brethren […][...]
Chad Kackert, a 2005 graduate of Grace Brethren High School in Simi Valley, Calif., has exemplified excellence in his work ethic, attitude, desire to serve others and lifestyle. Some people have seen that personally or through the impact on others. But many, many people have seen his excellence on the football field culminating in his MVP award in the 2012 […][...]
A number of families at the Grace Brethren Church in Long Beach, Calif. (Lou Huesmann, pastor) are featured in an upcoming special on CBS that celebrates foster care and adoption. “A Home for the Holidays” shares stories of foster care adoption and features performances from some of America’s most popular musical artists. This year’s special features several Grace families who […][...]
Rev. Robert Lee Kessler, 88, of Winona Lake, Indiana, the father of Grace College Lancer head basketball coach Jim Kessler, was promoted to heaven at 12:45 p.m. Dec. 10, 2012, in Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, where he was briefly hospitalized due to a fractured neck he suffered in a fall at his home in Winona Lake. He was born Dec. […][...]
Michel Faulkner of New Horizon Community Church and the Institute for Leadership, who also serves as Go2 Ministries’ Director of Urban Training, was a panelist at the 12/6/12 BALCONY Breakfast Forum. In this clip he shares the impact of of the faith-based and non-profit organizations on the recovery efforts, whose help allowed the victims to experience stability, dignity and hope. […][...]
The Junior division football team at Grace Brethren Youth Sports, a ministry of the Grace Brethren Church in Simi Valley, Calif. (Jordan Bakker, pastor), recently took its first Superbowl Championship in the Gold Coast Youth Football League. The Ventura County Star told the story: GCYFL Junior Division Super Bowl at Rio Mesa Grace Brethren: Led by coach Tom Costello, the […][...]
The annual Christmas outreach produced by Grace Polaris, a Grace Brethren congregation in Columbus, Ohio (Mike Yoder, lead pastor), is featured in today’s Columbus Dispatch about organizations that rent animals for Christmas pageants. Grace Polaris engages a company to supply camels an donkeys for their Living Christmas Trees program, which marks its 26th season this year. A portion of the […][...]
Here is a short excerpt from an article in the Columbus area on the new water pump developed for use in Africa. To read the entire article, click here. It was early December, and families gathered around a bright, shiny symbol of hope at the old Grace Brethren Church in Worthington. No Christmas trees or twinkling stars were in sight, […][...]
This afternoon comes a report for Daron Butler, pastor of cross cultural missions at the Grace Brethren Church in Wooster, Ohio. He shares about today’s meeting of paid staff mission mobilizers in Ashland, Ohio. Dave Guiles, executive director of Encompass World Partners gathered paid staff missions mobilizers in Ashland, Ohio. The gathering included paid church staff members responsible for mobilizing […][...]
Jim Hocking, executive director of Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), a cooperating ministry of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, shares this story from Kadena Air Base, Japan. Airman Jessica Tharp joined her uncle, Tim Harley, a member of the Grace Brethren Church in Wooster, Ohio, on a ministry trip to the Central African Republic last summer. A portion of […][...]
From Go2Ministries: We want to thank you once again for your incredible support of this project. Last week, we sent a film crew to meet Michel Faulkner in the Rockaways to provide a report on GO2’s efforts to date. It’s a powerful film that shows how you truly are helping our brothers and sisters in the Rockaways rebuild their homes […][...]
An important new resource on ethics for ministry leaders entitled Doing Right While Doing Good has just been released by BMH Books of Winona Lake, Indiana. Subtitled “An Exploration of Ministerial Ethics,” the 149-page paperback expands on, and gives practical case studies to reinforce, a comprehensive statement of ethics for those in Christian ministry. Sections include “Habits of the Heart,” […][...]
Grace Theological Seminary and the Graduate Counseling Department showed off their new digs this afternoon with an open house and tour of their new facilities. The building, located at 999 College Avenue in Winona Lake, Ind., is the former Encompass World Partners building. The facility was purchased this summer by the Grace Brethren Investment Foundation and has been leased to […][...]
“My professors in the education and history programs at Grace have helped me to see the true integration of faith and learning, which is something many Christian colleges fail to achieve, and I will take that away with me as I move forward into whatever the Lord has planned for me after college,” says Nina Ferry, a Grace College student […][...]
A former player for Grace Brethren High School in Simi Valley, Calif., Chad Kackert, was named most outstanding player of the 100th Grey Cup on Sunday. According to the Globe and Mail, he was not even in the starting lineup for most of the first half of the season, but became a standout in the team’s run to it’s first […][...]
Sunday’s Akron Beacon Journal includes a story about the new worship space at the Grace Brethren Church in Norton, Ohio (Dan Gregory, campus pastor). The facility had been severely damaged in a January fire. Read the complete story here. Grace Brethren Church in Norton opens rebuilt worship space NORTON: Grace Brethren Church in Norton rose from the proverbial ashes on […][...]
Pastor Dan White of the York, Pennsylvania, Grace Brethren Church, who is also the northeast regional representative for the Association of Grace Brethren Ministers, has written the following: “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” (Psalm 116:15) Pastor Leslie Dee Nutter, age 71 years, went into the presence of His Lord late Tuesday night, November […][...]
Happy Thanksgiving to all! Having just seen the excellent “Lincoln” movie, his Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1863 seems especially poignant. Don Shoemaker Washington, D.C. October 3, 1863 By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, […][...]
It’s that time of year when gift giving is high on everyone’s list. Here’s a way to make your gift count even more as you shop online during this holiday season. It’s a way that ensures a donation to The Brethren Missionary Herald Company, the publisher of the BMH Editor’s Blog, at no additional cost! BMH has partnered with GoodSearch.com and […][...]