Our partnerships with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches

FGBC Partnering Organizations

Wooster Grace partners with several Fellowship of Grace Brethren Organizations. Three to highlight are CE National, Internationals USA, & Vision Ohio. We partner with Ed Lewis from CE National, Jay & Jan Bell from Internationals USA, and Ron Boehm with VisionOhio. 
Ed Lewis is Executive Director of CE National. CE National's purpose is "to be a catalyst for all believers to be trained and mobilized to be 'on mission.' This is done by impacting the rising generation, reaching neglected people, and teaching biblical truth in any culture." As Ed Lewis passionately shares, "Living 'on-mission' is intentional. Helping believers and churches live on mission is at the very core of what we do at CE National. It is not just a line in our purpose statement--it is who we are (Spring 2012 Bi-Annual newsletter)."
You can learn more by following these links:

• CE National website
• Connect with Ed Lewis on FB

Vision Ohio is the Grace Brethren Regional Church Planting Network in Ohio. They serve churches and church leaders in fulfilling the Great Commission.  Ron & Chery Boehm seek to equip churches to plant new churches. They help couples undertake the arduous task of starting a new church with support, training, and prayer. 
Follow what God is doing by following these links:

• VisionOhio website
• Connect with Ron Boehm on FB

Encompass World Partners equips churches to reach out to Internationals through English as a Second Language (ESL) in the Internationals-USA (I-USA) ministry with Encompas. They also mobilize churches to serve Internationals in their communities and equip mobilizers in churches around the country.
You can read more about them from these links:

• Read how they seek to equip churches to reach out to Internationals via ESL.
• Learn more about Encompass World Partners.

Using a church as a place of hope for children in your community

Pastor Dale Workman

I had a great conversation with Robin Workman, wife of senior pastor Dale Workman from Community Grace Brethren Church of Long Beach (CA).  She shared how their church people renovated a room in their church to serve as a computer lab for the families in their community. In fact, they host the Andy Street Youth Ambassadors program where children get afterschool lifeskills training. Elder Ken Victor seeks to facilitate the church facility for outreach as part of the heartbeat of their church.  In partnership with LaVerne Duncan who leads the Andy Street Ambassador Program for Long Beach, Community GBC of Long Beach uses their building for outreach. Here's a shout out from this pastor for what you are doing on-mission for the Lord. Find Pastor Dale & his wife Robin at Vision2020 Leadership Conference.

If you would like to have them share how they did it and what you could learn from them, please contact them via email at 2ormore@msn.com or call (562) 634-1056.  Let's learn together to make a greater impact for Christ!

National Conference at Wooster Grace for FGBC

Wooster Grace (OH)

Wooster Grace is part of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (FGBC). We get to host the annual national conference on our campus.  I will be tweeting (@daronbutler) with the hashtag #vision2020now, posting to my blog, & adding short videos from the conference all week. 

In the BMH Board meeting yesterday, the moderator for this year's conference is our senior pastor Bob Fetterhoff. He summarized the conference as "getting our eyes off of our needs and onto the needs of the world."

So please tweet with the hashtag #vision2020now as you see posts or read tweets from Vision 2020. 

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