Randi Walle

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

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

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.

Water was a necessary ingredient on Wednesday’s Blitz. Temperatures reached in the high 90s with high humidity.

Students from Elizabethtown, Pa., helped wash the walls at the DREAM Center.