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 […]
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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
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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
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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.)
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“This has been like a week of football training camp,” said Dan Gregory as he took to the platform for the Thursday morning main session at the Momentum youth conference. He likened training camp to the mountain top experience that the week has been for many. Dan is pastor of Community of Hope, a Grace
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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
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In this morning’s SunHerald, the newspaper in Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., reported on activities related to Momentum. Katie Vanderhoof, from the Grace Brethren Church in Clinton, Md. and Charlie Wright, of the Winona Lake (Ind.) Grace Brethren Church are quoted. An excerpt appears below. To read the whole story, click here. Entire neighborhoods in Gulfport
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Students picked up trash along the roads around Hattiesburg as part of the Momentum Blitz. More than 1,200 students left the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi, where the conference is being held, to ministry to the community. (See story below.) To see additional photos from Wednesday at Momentum, click here.
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