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Advent Meditations 2022: November 29 – Ps 94:12-15

For today’s installment of our Advent Meditation series, our brother Bruce Franson provides commentary on Ps 94:12-15. Take a listen or click here to download. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug […]

Advent Meditations 2022: November 28 – Is 2:1-5

For today’s installment of our Advent Meditation series, our brother Joseph Mathias provides commentary on Is 2:1-5. Take a listen or click here to download. The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the […]

Advent Meditations 2022: November 27 – Mt 24:1-44

For today’s installment of our Advent Meditation series, our brother Brian Laba provides commentary on Mt 24:1-44. Take a listen or click here to download. Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, […]

Brotherhood Gathers to Celebrate 50th Anniversary

From 29 August to 2 September, all the Servants of the Word from across the world gathered in Brooklyn, Michigan in order to celebrate our 50th anniversary. A couple of years ago, when the date was drawing near, some brothers suggested that we mark the occasion by bringing all the brotherhood together, something we had […]

Our Next Presiding Elder, David Mijares

The Servants of the Word Have Elected David Mijares as their Next Presiding Elder We are pleased to announce that our Servants of the Word Council, which meets every four years, has elected David Mijares as our next Presiding Elder. David will take over from Dave Quintana next summer after a period of transition. Dave […]

The Holy Spirit, Giver of Life

For Pentecost 2022, our brother Stan Mathay spoke to the brothers on “The Holy Spirit, Giver of Life”. You can listen to his talk here below.

Bruce Yocum and the Gift of Prophecy

by John Yocum In 1975, the charismatic renewal was booming. Hundreds of thousands of people had experienced what came to be known as “baptism in the Holy Spirit,” and exercised the spiritual gifts evident in The Acts of the Apostles and in St Paul’s letters. Eventually the numbers would swell to tens of millions. The […]

Recollections from the Early Days of the Communities Movement

by Gerry Rauch I have known Bruce since early 1968 when he attended one of the early prayer meetings in our apartment over Campus Corners Drugstore when he was 18 years old and a student at Michigan. I want to briefly tell three stories that characterize a little of what he was like. One night […]

My Early Encounter with Bruce Yocum

A radical disciple who finished the race Christ had set for him by Don Schwager I remember Bruce very well from the early beginnings of charismatic renewal in the late 1960s. We were both undergraduate students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Steve Clark and three other graduates from Notre Dame – Ralph […]