July 2006

A giant inflatable “prayer wall” stands on the center of the student union complex on the BIOLA University during the week of Brethren National Youth Conference. Individuals are invited to participate either by writing prayer requests on the wall, as this student is doing, or in praying for the requests indicated.

New Zealand evangelist, speaker, and author Ray Comfort, best known for his “Way of the Master” materials, brought powerful challenges both to youth leaders and to the general session today of the Brethren National Youth Conference.(Jenna Hollinger photo) Comfort’s theme is that individuals generally do not realize they are in need of Christ’s salvation until

Jenna Wells, wife of Nathan, associate pastor at the Ashland, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church, spoke this morning to youth leaders and youth pastors as part of the ongoing education sessions for youth workers at BNYC.(Jenna Hollinger photo)

The BNYC Youth Choir opens nearly all general sessions of the conference with upbeat songs of experience and challenge.

Tammie Robinson, from the Warsaw, Indiana, Community Grace Brethren Church, is the enthusiastic leader of the youth choir each year at BNYC. She is also the manager of the Grace College campus bookstore.

Ed Lewis, executive director of CE National, began the staff meeting and breakfast on Sunday with instructions for the day. Already God has been working in a number of students’ lives at Brethren National Youth Conference. Jeff Bogue, pastor of the Akron North Campus of Grace Church, challenged the staff with opportunities to be servants

The GBIM “mister” is a popular walk-through area at BNYC, as pedestrians can get misted with spray to get some relief from the sweltering heat on the BIOLA campus. Various national organizations and ministries have established exhibit tents along the main campus walkway on the LaMirada, California, campus.

Ted and Dawn Rondeau of the Grace Brethren International Missions staff have safely arrived at Brethren National Youth Conference in LaMirada, California, after having ridden their motorcycle more than 2,200 miles from Winona Lake, Indiana. Stopping to visit Grace Brethren churches along the way, the Rondeaus sometimes rode during the nights, encountering temperatures as high

Shown here parked by a Saguaro cactus somewhere in Arizona, Ted and Dawn Rondeau of the GBIM staff stopped at a number of the more remote Grace Brethren churches on their motorcycle trip to Brethren National Youth Conference. Among the churches they visited were Beaver City, Nebraska; Dallas Center, Iowa; Colorado Springs, Colorado, and others.

Francis Chan, popular pastor, educator, and youth speaker from Simi Valley, California, spoke at the opening session of Brethren National Youth Conference this evening. This is the fifth year in a row that Chan has been one of the headline speakers.(Jenna Hollinger photo) Tomorrow morning the main session speaker will be Ray Comfort, and other