Posted by Terry White on June 24, 2006 | No Comments
Nathanael Smith, who is serving as a summer intern at the Worthington, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church, led the final segment of communion in the Holy Spirit chapel on the Kenyon College campus.
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Dr. Randy Smith, pastor of the Sebring, Florida, Grace Brethren Church and expert on Israel, was the speaker for this morning’s 10 a.m. main session at DRIVEN06 conference for young adults.
Afternoon recreation will include coed flag football, coed soccer, basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, volleyball, and racquetball. There is another round of workshops at 4:15 p.m., and the evening will include a Grace Brethren three-fold communion service, beginning with the Love Feast as the evening meal, followed by footwashing and the bread and cup.
Grace Brethren International Missions will have an “International Cafe” at 2 p.m., with international hors d’oeuvres and opportunity to learn about various cultures.
The late-night feature this evening, after another open-mike session at 10 p.m., will be a session entitled “Redemptive Moments in Film” at 11:30. The topic will be “Can anything good come out of Hollywood?”
The conference concludes at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, after a morning session at which Dr. Kary Oberbrunner of the Powell, OH, Grace Brethren Church, will be the speaker.
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The sun finally shone on the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where some 150 young Grace Brethren adults have been meeting for the DRIVEN06 conference. After two days of storms, continual rain, and overcast skies, the sun shone brightly as participants visited on the lawn enroute from workshops to the 10 a.m. main session at Rosse Auditorium, in the background.
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Dr. Todd Scoles, of the pastoral staff of Northwest Chapel in Dublin, Ohio, gave a workshop this morning entitled “Beyong Baptism and Communion–Who Are the Grace Brethren?” Scoles’ recent doctoral dissertation was on the Brethren ordinances and he gave a historical and theological overview of the roots and distinctives of the Grace Brethren movement.
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Jonathan Wiley, who recently joined the pastoral staff of the Grace Brethren Church of Worthington, Ohio, gave a DRIVEN06 workshop at the 8:45 a.m. hour today entitled “Tales From the Porch” on structuring church for young adults.
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Barb Wooler, Grace Brethren missionary to the Central African Republic, gave one of seven workshops offered this morning to participants at the DRIVEN06 young adults conference in Ohio. Barb’s workshop was entitled “The Gift Everyone Hopes Someone Else Gets–Singleness.”
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Posted by Terry White on June 23, 2006 | No Comments
From today’s Warsaw (IN) Times-Union:
BY TERESA SMITH, Times-Union Staff Writer
WINONA LAKE – Dr. Patrick Kavanaugh doesn’t get it.
The MasterWorks Festival has made audition requirements more and more difficult and students still clamor to be accepted into the program.
“We had to turn hundreds of students away,” he said about this year’s audition process. “What we have is more college students, more 20-year-olds than ever before. The higher we raise the bar, the more students apply.”
Perhaps it’s the opportunity to receive intense fine arts instruction by a top-notch faculty in a Christian-based atmosphere.
There’s also the resort-like atmosphere of Winona Lake, the Grace College campus and a community that packs Rodeheaver Auditorium literally to the rafters during performances.
This year there are 235 students, 20 from Indiana, from the U.S., Canada, Australia, South Korea, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Norway, Honduras, Lithuania, Ukraine, Malaysia and the Philippines. Nearly half of the students are returning to the MasterWorks Festival program.
This is the ninth year for the festival, which started in New York and relocated to Winona Lake in 2001, moving here permanently in 2003.
The MasterWorks Festival is an outgrowth of the Christian Performing Artists’ Fellowship, which Kavanaugh and his wife, Barbara, a professional cellist, started with two other couples. MasterWorks began in 1997 as a course designed to prepare young people for music careers and to help shape their spirituality by including daily Christian devotions and Bible studies.
This year’s group of talented students includes 65 violinists, 28 pianists, 18 cellists, 12 violas, 34 woodwinds, 14 brass, 14 dancers and 18 actors.
The orchestra, with its sea of violins, will have 127 players.
Kavanaugh admits the orchestra is huge. “All I can say is come early to get a seat in ol’ Rody. We may have to take out seating as we expand the stage.”
The usually articulate director mumbled something about having to build a concert hall because classrooms and practice rooms are spread throughout the Grace College campus and into the Winona Lake United Methodist Church and the Winona Lake Presbyterian Church.
The faculty includes Stephen Clapp, violin, dean of the Juillard School; Hugh Sung, piano, Curtis Institute; Rich Swingle, actor with The Lamb’s Players; Caleb Mitchell, dancer for the Houston Ballet; Lisa Boyko, violist with the Cleveland Orchestra; David Kim, concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Charmaine Hunter from the Hartford Ballet School; and Gerald Dolter, Texas Tech director of opera, to name just a few. The faculty, staff and guest artists number 92.
The faculty is staying for an additional week after the students leave. They will perform chamber music concerts July 24-30.
This year’s schedule includes eight orchestra concerts, including the outdoor Patriotic concert, two ballet performances, two opera performances, two theater performances, four faculty recitals, two honors student recitals plus recitals of chamber music, piano, string intensive study,wind intensive study and dozens of “Village gigs” – performances each afternoon in the Village at Winona.
Schedule –
June 29-July 8:
All performances in Rodeheaver Auditorium unless otherwise indicated.
Schedule subject to change.
Sunday, 7:30 p.m., faculty recital.
Wednesday, dance masterclass with Stan Rogers. time and location to be announced.
June 29, 8 pm, student concerto finals.
June 30, 11 a.m., location to be announced, theater seminar with Jimmy Sites and John Kirby; 2 p.m. dance masterclass with Kelly Lannin, locations to be announced; 2 p.m. violin masterclass with David Kim in the Winona Lake Presbyterian Church; and 3:30 p.m. theater masterclass with John Kirby, location to be announced.
June 30, 7:30 p.m., MasterWorks Festival Orchestra concert with Delta David Gier, conducting, featuring David Kim on violin. The program includes Tchaikovsky’s “Capriccio Italienne,” Sibelius’ “Symphony No. 2” and Brahms’ “Violin Concerto.”
July 1, 11 a.m., a piano faculty recital in the Rainbow Room, at Westminster Hall featuring Lori Rhoden and Walter Cosand.
July 1, 7:30 p.m., Pops Concert by the Masterworks Festival Orchestra, at the Hillside Amphitheater, Winona Lake. Patrick Kavanaugh, conductor, soloist – Gerald Dolter, baritone, featuring Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” various Sousa marches: Williams’ “Star Wars Suite,” Gould’s “American Salute,” medley from: “The Music Man” a suite of Broadway Songs and the Armed Forces medley.
July 2, 7:30 p.m., faculty recital.
July 3, 3:30 p.m., piano masterclass with Daniel Paul Horn in the Rainbow Room at Westminster Hall.
July 6, 8:30 p.m., theater improvisation night in McClain Hall.
July 7, 2 p.m. cello masterclass with Anne Martindale Williams in the Winona Lake Presbyterian Church.
July 7, ballet performance, 7:30 p.m. with the MasterWorks Festival Orchestra, Anthony Spain, conductor, Rich Swingle, narrator, featuring Britten’s “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” Tchaikovsky’s “Act II from Swan Lake” and Dvorak’s “Nocturne for Strings.”
July 8, 11 a.m. a piano faculty recital with Daniel Paul, horn, and Rosilee Walker in the Rainbow Room, at Westminster Hall; 3:30 p.m. violin masterclass with Stephen Clapp in the Winona Lake Presbyterian Church.
July 8, ballet performance, 2 p.m. with the The MasterWorks Festival Orchestra, Anthony Spain, conductor, Rich Swingle, narrator featuring – Britten’s “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” Tchaikovsky’s “Act II from Swan Lake” and Dvorak’s “Nocturne for Strings.”
July 8, 7:30 p.m., a MasterWorks Festival Orchestra concert with David Bowden, conductor and solo artist Anne Martindale Williams on the cello. The program includes Bach’s “Orchestral Suite No. 3;” Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 1” and Saint-Saen’s “Cello Concerto.”
On the Net: www.masterworksfestival.org
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Pastor Jeff Bogue from the Norton, OH, North Campus of Grace Church is the speaker for morning and evening main sessions on Friday at DRIVEN06, the Grace Brethren conference for young adults.
Bogue gave a powerful challenge to the young people this morning not to be pulled into thinking “the world’s way” but rather to check each mindset and attitude against the scriptures.
By late Friday afternoon the rain had stopped and full electrical power had been restored to the Kenyon College campus. After a 5:30 p.m. dinner today, participants will have a 7 p.m. main session (Jeff Bogue), a 9 p.m. Spiritual Formation roundtable discussion, and coffeetalks and Open Mike and Open Gym nights beginning at 10 p.m.
The “late night feature” will be “Spiritual Journeys of Outcasts: What Bono and Kanye Can Teach the Church” which will be led by Kary Oberbrunner and Mark Artrip.
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In spite of the rain-soaked sogginess and effects of the storm-produced power outage, worship is enthusiastic at the DRIVEN06 conference in Gambier, Ohio.
Friday afternoon’s array of workshops includes “Prayer Contagion” by Mike and Mindi Jentes, “The Gift Everyone Hopes Someone Else Gets–Singleness” by Barb Wooler, “The DaVinci Code” by Dr. David Plaster, “Principles for Understanding the Bible” by Dr. Randy Smith, and much more.
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Paul Hoard (seated), Grace College journalism student and summer BMH intern, distributes copies of the daily newsletter ‘DRIVENWORLD06′ to participants in the DRIVEN06 young adults’ conference as they enter the auditorium for the Friday morning program on the Kenyon College campus in Gambier, Ohio.
The first day’s issue of the paper, which Hoard is editing and producing for the conference, had to be scuttled because of a storm-caused nightlong power outage Thursday.
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Posted by Terry White on June 23, 2006 | No Comments
To honor Sunday School teachers for their dedication and service to ministry, Gospel Light Publishers is organizing the 13th annual Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day, to be marked Oct. 15.
Since 1993, an integral part of Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day has been the national search for the Sunday School Teacher of the Year.
In addition to being acknowledged with the Dr. Henrietta C. Mears Award, the winner of this year’s contest also will receive a vacation for two to Hawaii. The church the winner represents will win a $500 gift certificate for Gospel Light curriculum.
The top 10 finalists will receive prizes, and their churches will receive gift certificates for Gospel Light curriculum.
The deadline for the contest is Aug. 31. For more information, go to www.mysundayschoolteacher.com. Gospel Light Sunday School curriculum is available from BMH Books by logging onto www.bmhbooks.com or by calling John Leonard at 1-800-348-2756.
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Posted by Terry White on June 23, 2006 | No Comments
The second annual conference for young adults, DRIVEN06, being held on the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, is off to the strangest of starts.
Ezra Wimberly of the Norton North Grace campus (center, with guitar) led in worship, but without any electricity. The rain and winds that tore through central Ohio just as most of the participants were arriving knocked out the power to the entire Kenyon campus for the entire evening. (Dr. David Plaster actually watched a semi-trailer being toppled by the wind along Rt. 23 near Marion, OH)
So with only flashlights and one video light from John Ward’s portable video camera as lighting, the approximately 150 registrants met for an evening of fellowship, praise, and challenge. The power came on again at 1:52 a.m. this morning (Friday).
Today’s activities begin with a full round of workshops at 8:45 a.m. Further information on the conference and schedule are on www.driven06.org.
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Kondo Simfukwe, one of the pastors at Christ Covenant Church in Winona Lake, Indiana, was the leadoff speaker for DRIVEN06. He spoke on “Who We Are” and used graphic examples of the scope of the universe to help participants marvel at the creative power of God, and yet His individual creativity in gifting each one of us to know Him and to be in ministry.
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In a late-night session at DRIVEN06, GBIM’s Jay Bell (seated left) and GBNAM’s Kurt Miller (seated right) answered questions and gave examples of reaching “all nations” both around the world and among ethnic groups here in the U.S. Keith Minier (standing), pastor at the Grace Brethren Church in Pickerington, Ohio, is emcee for the conference.
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Posted by Terry White on June 22, 2006 | No Comments
Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church has announced that, by congregation voting completed this past weekend, the church will be going to a “Pastoral Leadership Team” concept in which a team of pastors will report to the Board of Overseers and will be led by a Lead Pastor. The church has voted to call Bruce Barlow (pictured), who has been serving as Associate Pastor, to the role of Lead Pastor.
In addition to existing full-time pastoral staff of Dave Rank (music and worship) and Tim Wright (youth), the Overseers have asked several individuals to consider serving in additional pastoral staff positions and have interviewed these men. Discussion times with them will be offered and a confirmation vote will be held July 2-16.
Bruce Barlow was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the oldest of five sons. The family moved to Worthington, Ohio, for high school years and Bruce responded to the gospel through the testimony of his best friend and trusted Jesus Christ as Savior just prior to starting his senior year of high school. He became involved in the youth group at the Worthington Grace Brethren Church under the influence of Youth Pastor Don Willett.
Barlow attended Grace College from 1974-1978, majoring in Biblical Languages and Biblical Studies. During college, he was involved in student government and concert choir.
Barlow married Christi Coldren of Columbus, Ohio, in 1976. They have two adult children: Hillary Sweatland (23) of Kapolei, HI, and Trent Barlow (19), a sophomore at Methodist College in Fayetteville, NC. Bruce and Christi began attending WLGBC in 1976 and served as volunteer youth staff under Youth Pastor Dave Hobert during their college years.
Barlow then served as Associate Pastor of the Grace Brethren Church in Martinsburg, PA, from 1978-1984, under senior pastor Bill Snell.
The Barlows moved back to Winona Lake in 1984 to serve at Grace College and resumed attendance at WLGBC. Bruce was Associate Dean (1984-1990) and Dean of Students (1990-1992) at Grace College.
He joined the staff of Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church as Associate Pastor in 1992, working with Senior Pastor John Teevan. Teevan concluded his 16-year ministry at WLGBC at the end of May, and in August he will become director of the prison extension ministry at Grace College. As part of his community outreach involvement, Barlow is assistant football coach at Warsaw (IN) High School.
It is interesting to note that all five of the Barlow brothers are actively serving in Grace Brethren Churches. Rick is active in the GBC of Columbus, Ohio; Rob is an Associate Pastor at Ashland, OH, GBC; Tom serves with GBIM in London, England; and Jim serves with the leadership of the Alexandria (VA) Grace Brethren Church.
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Posted by Terry White on June 21, 2006 | No Comments
The July/August, 2006, issue of FGBC World, the all-Fellowship publication for Grace Brethren Churches, should be arriving in homes and churches this week. Here is promotional copy you may use for bulletins, newsletters, websites, and other communications. Please pass along to your church staff.
Week One:
Maranatha Grace Brethren Church of Hagerstown, Maryland, ministers to youth in its community each week through the skate church its youth pastor runs every Saturday through September. Read about what God is doing through this unique ministry in the July/August issue of FGBC World, now available. Take a copy today or read it online at www.fgbcworld.com.
Week Two:
Ken Lawson of the Columbus, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church shares how his faith extends past the church doors on Sunday to his work as a detective, investigating sexual assaults and human trafficking. Read about this interesting member of the FGBC and other news updates in the July/August issue of FGBC World, now available. Take a copy today or read it online at www.fgbcworld.com.
Week Three:
It’s conference season again. BNYC and Celebrate06 are just about to begin meeting. A preview article for these conferences can be found in the July/August issue of FGBC World, now available. Get your free subscription today, pick up a copy, or read it online at www.fgbcworld.com.
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Posted by Terry White on June 21, 2006 | No Comments
Larry E. McCall, pastor of Christ’s Covenant Church in Winona Lake, Indiana, and author of BMH Books’ recent release Walking Like Jesus Did, will soon be embarking on an exciting ministry opportunity to Africa. He and his wife Gladine (pictured) send the following prayer request:
“Please remember to pray for Gladine and me, as well as five others from CCC (including our daughter and son-in-law, Janelle and Josh Armstrong) who will be leaving on Friday for a 17-day trip to Tanzania. I have the privilege of speaking at a conference for 200 Tanzanian pastors.
“Please pray that God will allow these messages on Biblical Leadership to impact the Tanzanian leaders in a way that Tanzanian churches are benefited and God is glorified.”
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Dr. Larry N. Chamberlain, president of the Grace Brethren Investment Foundation (GBIF) in Winona Lake, Indiana, has announced that GBIF is sponsoring a seminar on grant-writing at this year’s Celebrate06 national conference in Palm Springs, California.
Chamberlain says this session, offered on Sunday afternoon, July 30, from 3-5 p.m., would be very helpful for church-planters and career missionaries who wish to gain some insights into the potential rewards from grant writing to help support their initiatives. Christian school administrators, senior pastors, and organizational fund-raisers will also find the information to be helpful, he says.
Jeffrey Rodman, the presenter, comes highly recommended by Tim Boling, President and CEO of Christiangrants.com. Rodman’s focus will be on helping churches and Christian ministries to understand the grant-writing process, offering helpful information gained from his extensive experience in working with religious not-for-profits.
Jeffrey J. Rodman, M.Ed., MAC, LPC, is an experienced grantwriter, fundraiser, and public speaker. He provides private consultation for grant proposal writing, nonprofit formation and development, and fundraising nationally and internationally and has worked on proposals to federal, state, and local government as well as to foundations, civic groups, corporate donors, and many others.
He has written over 100 proposals, secured over $7 million as a consultant, has had 84% of his proposals funded, and has secured 93% of the dollars for which he has applied.
Rodman received his BS in Chemical Dependency Counseling and his M.Ed. in Counseling and Development from George Mason University. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and holds certifications as a Criminal Justice Specialist, a Master Addictions Counselor, an Addictions Prevention Specialist, and a Domestic Violence Counselor.
GBIF has also announced that in 2007, Tim Boling will be presenting a three-hour session at Equip07, which will be held in Winona Lake.
Chamberlain says, “These presentations in 2006 and 2007 are sponsored by GBIF with the primary purpose of helping our colleagues in the Fellowship to achieve their fund-raising objectives in support of their worthy ministries.”
Registration information for Celebrate06 is available at www.celebrate06.com.
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Posted by Terry White on June 21, 2006 | No Comments
Several hundred top-flight young classical musicians, dancers, and thespians are about to descend on Winona Lake, Indiana, as the Tenth Annual Master Works Festival begins this Sunday, June 25 with a faculty program at 7:30 p.m. in the Rodeheaver Auditorium.
The month-long festival continues through Sunday, July 23, with dozens of full-scale, chamber, solo, and master class performances each week–all open to the public and without admission charge.
Here is the schedule of performances for the first few days of the festival. Further information is available by logging onto http://www.masterworksfestival.org.
Sunday, June 25, 7:30 pm
Faculty Recital
Wednesday, June 28, Time TBA
Dance Masterclass with Stan Rogers
location TBA
Thursday, June 29, 3:30 pm
Theatre Masterclass with Jimmy Sites
location TBA
Thursday, June 29, 8:00 pm
Student Concerto Finals
Friday, June 30
Theatre Seminar with Jimmy Sites and John Kirby 11:00 am
Theatre Masterclass with John Kirby, 3:30 pm
Dance Masterclass with Kelly Lannin 2:00 pm
Locations TBA
Violin Masterclass with David Kim 2:00 pm
Winona Lake Presbyterian Church
Friday, June 30, 7:30 pm
The MasterWorks Festival Orchestra
Delta David Gier, conductor
David Kim, violin
TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italienne
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto
Saturday, July 1, 11:00 am
Piano Faculty Recital
Rainbow Room, Westminster Hall
Lori Rhoden, Walter Cosand
Saturday, July 1, Pops Concert, 7:30 pm
Hillside Amphitheatre, Winona Lake
The MasterWorks Festival Orchestra
Patrick Kavanaugh, conductor
Gerald Dolter, baritone
TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture
SOUSA: Various Marches
WILLIAMS: Star Wars Suite
GOULD: American Salute
Medley from: The Music Man
Suite of Broadway Songs
The Armed Forces Medley
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Posted by Terry White on June 21, 2006 | No Comments
The first and second grade Sunday School classes from the Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church, under the leadership of Pam Carroll and other teachers, recently raised $300 to buy a bicycle for an African in ministry.
As a result, Appolinaire (pictured), the Project Hope & Charite school teacher who oversees two literacy schools for the Grace Brethren in the Central African Republic, will have a new bicycle to use in extending his ministry.
This past Sunday, June 18, Ted Rondeau of the Grace Brethren International Missions staff presented the class with tokens of appreciation that included framed photos and text which will hang on the children’s classroom wall.
According to GBIM missionary Barb Wooler, Appolinaire was trained back in 1993, and has faithfully used his skills to train other literacy workers and teach many Central Africans to read.
So taken was he by the ministry of literacy work in the local church/religious context, Wooler says, that he did his thesis for his undergraduate degree on the history of missions and the literacy work in the CAR.
Appolinaire is married with four daughters and attends a Grace Brethren church in Bangui, CAR.
Wooler says he is slated to become the Christian school administrator for PH&C Christian school, which will launch in the 2007-08 school year.(Barb Wooler photo)
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