Randi Walle

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.

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