July 2007

A team of young adults from the Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church has arrived in Central African Republic and will be touring the orphan care and well-drilling ministry and assisting wherever possible in the work of Integrated Community Development International, whose founder and director, Jim Hocking, is at right. In the photo, from left,

All the exhibit tables are up and ready at the Orthopaedic Capital Center on the Grace College and Seminary campus in Winona Lake, Indiana, and registration materials are awaiting the hundreds coming for Equip07, the national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. Registration opens tomorrow (Sunday) at 2 p.m. at the OCC. The

The Brethren Missionary Herald board of directors are meeting today in Winona Lake, Ind. Pictured are, left to right, Barb Wooler (back to camera), Pat Phillips (secretary), Rick Fairman, Bob Arenobine, Nathan Bryant, Todd Scoles (chair), Terry White (executive director), Bruce Barlow (treasurer), Dan Thornton (vice president), and Jesse Deloe (senior editor).

The final session of Momentum ended with a frank conversation led by Jeff Bogue, pastor of the North Campus of Grace Church in Akron, Ohio. But it was not before a standing ovation greeted the home owners who were the recipients of work throughout the week on the Gulf coast projects, along with the volunteer

Tonight is the last night of Momentum (formerly known as Brethren National Youth Conference). As the event winds down, here are a few stats from the week: Total attendance: 2,062Students: 1,449Fusion (post-high): 54Youth Workers: 343Staff: 108Adult Guests: 58FGBC* National Organization Reps.: 34Nanny: 1Children: 15States represented: 33Top states represented: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Maryland, CaliforniaChurches represented: 117Top

From the Biloxi, Mississippi, Sun-Herald: Coast gets ‘Blitz’ of help from teens By LEIGH COLEMAN, SUN HERALD Entire neighborhoods in Gulfport and Pearlington saw hundreds of teenagers from across the country mobilizing Wednesday to clean up, rebuild and pass out groceries. The teenage workforce had arrived in the thousands at the University of Southern Mississippi

Students from the Elizabethtown Grace Brethren Church in Pennsylvania were featured in a television story about the Momentum Blitz on Wednesday, July 25. Youth pastor John Vosberg and students Jackie Long and John Yeagley were interviewed. To view the story, which was broadcast on CBS 22 WHLT, in Hattisburg, click here. (Scroll to Student Volunteers.)

After a long day of work projects that included picking up trash, weeding a tree nursery, hanging drywall, and a myriad of other projects, students lined up at microphones Wednesday night at Momentum to share what God had done in their lives. The late night session was held in Reed Green Coliseum of University of