Randi Walle

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

Painting was one of the tasks on the list for the Blitz.

During the blitz, students helped around a local church.

More than 1,300 students and adults who are attending the Momentum Youth Conference fanned out across the city of Hattiesburg today (Wednesday) for the annual Blitz. The Blitz is a day of “acts of kindness” that focus on sharing the love of Christ with the community. “This has been good,” said Andy Parker, arborist for

 Today marks the 70th anniversary of Momentum, formerly known as Brethren National Youth Conference. The first conference was held in 1938 at Camp Bethany in Winona Lake, Ind. There 102 students who attended the camp while their parents were attending the conference for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. (And no, Ed Lewis was not

 During the Momentum staff meeting on Tuesday morning, Ray and Sharon Feather were given the Wall of Honor award. The Feathers were honored for their significant impact to our churches in the area of Bible Quizzing. Ray is pastor of Grace Community Church in Mukilteo, Wash. He has been involved with Bible quizzing with the

At the Tuesday morning main session of Momentum, Jim Brown, pastor of Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Goshen, Ind., noted that sometimes as Christians we want to exterminate or repell non Christians. Waving a can of bug spray, he said that sometimes we’re afraid to share our faith. “But when I read

Every day during Momentum, more than 500 students board busses in Hattiesburg for the southern Mississippi communities of Gulfport and Pearlington, both at least an hour ride away. They are headed to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, many whom have waited nearly two years for assistance with clean-up, home repair, and even home replacement. By

“Integrity means that you are completely consistent, not just with your beliefs but also in terms of how you act,” Shawn McBride, pictured above, told students and staff at the Momentum youth conference on Monday evening, July 23. Speaking from center stage in Reed Green Coliseum on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi

Students from the LaLoma Grace Brethren Church in California help clean an area damaged by Hurricane Katrina. They were part of hundreds of kids who left the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi yesterday (Monday) where the youth conference, Momentum is being held, to minister to victims of the 2005 storm.