Sunday, November 5, 2000
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Sunday, November 5, 2000 |
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Grace church has a vision for missions
By CAROLYN CARY
Grace Evangelical Church is a nondenominational, biblically rooted and culturally sensitive church that is moved by a Great Commission vision. This vision equips and enables men, women and children to communicate Christ through significant relationships with God, one another as believers and with nonbelievers. Its vision and core values have not changed since its inception in 1973. The first meeting began with five families, meeting in homes, who were devoted to the apostles' teaching, fellowship and prayer. The congregation has just welcomed a new minister, the Rev. Bruce Hebel. He and his family, wife Toni, sons Aaron, 17, Andrew, 13, and daughter Amy, 11, came from Norman, Okla. a month ago. He was born in Texas, lived in Oklahoma for a while as a child and from third grade through high school, lived in Paducah, Ky., where his parents still live. Born into a pastor's home, he has known all of his life the direction that God had in mind for him. Graduating from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Mo., he went on to Dallas Theology Seminary, graduating with a master of theology in 1987. He and his wife met at Baptist Bible College where she received a degree in piano performance and has taught piano for many years. Grace Evangelical supports 21 career missions staff serving in Atlanta, the United States, Asia, Japan, North Africa, Southeast Asia, East Africa, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Romania and the Ukraine. "If I am to be effective as a leader and if we are going to be effective as a church body, it will be because we together have pursued knowing and understanding God," says Hebel. Worship services are Sunday at 9:30 a.m., fellowship time is at 10:45 a.m. and education classes are at 11 a.m. AWANA for children is Sunday at 4 p.m. and youth activities begin at 5 p.m. The church is at 164 Flat Creek Trail (across from Flat Creek Baptist Church) and it can be reached at 770-487-0791.
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