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.