July 2004

It’s Wednesday afternoon. We’ve just finished lunch–some in the REC Center and some in the tent–and made our way through the rain into the afternoon’s activities. An article on the rain’s effect on community service projects appeared in yesterday’s LaCrosse Tribune newspaper. This morning’s main session featured Shawn McBride, an energetic speaker from the Washington […]

Performance art continues to be an effective way to share the Gospel message. Here a group performs prior to Francis Chan’s main address in the Tuesday evening session. 

In the Tuesday evening session teens reported on Blitz opportunities to lead people to Christ, to pray with people for rededication, and to share a significant Gospel witness.  

This distribution team, consisting of Amanda and the two Steves, assisted an elderly lady Tuesday afternoon with some minor roof repair, and then prayed with her at her request.  

Throughout the week, 15,000 newspaper are to be hand-delivered to every home in the LaCrosse area by teens from the BNYC conference.  

Tuesday’s Blitz community outreach activity consisted of teams who fanned throughout the LaCrosse, Wisconsin community, offering to do small labor tasks free and distributing a customized newspaper explaining the Christian Gospel and the week’s BNYC activities. Here a team prays at the corner of 28th and Birch Streets before beginning their door-to-door walk. 

A men’s quartet from the Osceloa, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church opened Tuesday’s morning session at Brethren Youth Conference with several foot-tapping Southern Gospel numbers. 

As part of Monday’s “Blitz” activities, students fanned out across the city doing service projects such as cleaning rooms, tearing down vines, shredding documents, and more. Here two students help at the local Red Cross office, where one of their tasks was to fly new American and Red Cross flags above the office. 

Monday’s noontime storm took roofs off buildings and downed trees in the downtown section of LaCrosse, Wisconsin. By God’s grace, however, the UWL campus where BNYC is occurring was largely untouched, and some of the students were able to pray and minister to those who were affected by the storm.