Look What God is Doing At Urban Hope

Warren Zellner, Winona Lake, Ind., spent a week at Urban Hope, finishing up projects left from the heating renovation.

Heat!!!
Urban Hope is praising God for the ability to use the church and training center building again now that the new heating system is complete. A special "Thank You" goes out to the many people who have donated time and money to help with this project.

Kingdom Kids Begins
With the completion of the heating system, Kingdom Kids has begun again. Last week the kids had a pajama day and learned about building their lives on Jesus.

Smackdown Outreach Weekend
A group from Hope Community Church in Cary, N.C., joined Urban Hope in February for the annual Smackdown weekend. The teens spent Friday and Saturday playing crazy games, running all over Philly during the Amazin' Race, and eating all kinds of disgusting foods during Fear Factor. It's an awesome time for teens to invite their friends to see that being a Christian is crazy fun and for the groups coming in to get to know the teens here.

Want to get email updates from Urban Hope? Go to www.urbanhope.net and click "Urban Hope Email Update" on the left menu.

An Amazing Trip to Israel

The 412 Commission students just got back from an amazing trip to Israel led by Dr. Randy Smith. During the two weeks the group toured the country seeing various sites ranging from Old Testament cities to Armagedon.

One student said “It really opened my eyes to the way Scripture was written. I always had these assumptions, and this trip gave me a good dose of truth.” Read more and see pictures...

Two Momentums--Two Different Purposes

As summer looms, plans for Momentum 2008 continue to come together. CE National is excited to offer two conferences this year, one on the west coast at Biola University in California, June 23-28, and one in the east at Cedarville University in Ohio, July 21-27. The two locations will help local youth groups minimize the rising cost of attending Momentum by keeping travel costs lower, but anyone from any state can attend either or both conferences.

Momentum West at Biola University will be unique, combining the highlights of youth conference–the speakers, worship, and training–with 3 days of missions opportunities. Read more...

New Website For Youth Workers Features Easter Resource

Take your students deep into the Easter story, linking the suffering and criticism that they might go through with Jesus' suffering. This study deals with the doctrine of Christ's suffering in relation to the events preceding Easter. Get the study...

The Easter study is just one of 42 weeks worth of youth group lessons on the new website www.EyeOnYouth.com.

CE National Resources--Biblically Accurate and Culturally Relevant

CE National has key resources to help teach the whole counsel of God.

Biblical Beliefs: Workbook-style lessons examine what the Bible teaches about God, Jesus, the Bible, Trinity, Salvation, and the Holy Spirit. The books also deal with doubts, developing a personal relationship with God, discerning false beliefs, and finding assurance of salvation. These lessons span two books and correspond to the elements of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches' Statement of Faith. Individual books are geared for adults and students. Find out more...

Mack and Company: "Biblical Beliefs" series for kids explains each element of the Grace Brethren Statement of Faith. Thirty-nine lessons present FGBC beliefs in exciting, age-appropriate language, with activities and pictures to give meaningful challenges to students in grades 4-6. Read more...

Readables: Pamphlets that cover what a Grace Brethren Church is, and what the FGBC believes about baptism, communion, eternal life, and more. Inexpensive, easy ways to let visitors to your congregation know what you believe. Find out more...

What's Different About The National Institute?

TK leads a TNI class

Timothy Kurtaneck (TK), Director of CE National’s The National Institute (TNI), answers a few questions about the TNI program at Grace College.

What is different about TNI courses as compared to typical classes one might take at college?

I think there are a number of things as it relates to our youth ministry classes. Allow me to share just three: Read more...

What's Coming Up At CE National?

Keep current with CE National events by visiting the CE National calendar. It's updated regularly with events like Day Away--Wooster on April 11, 412 Commission graduation on May 9, Metro MAP Team on May 16-18, Momentum West held June 23-28, and Momentum East held July 21-27, Operation Barnabas (OB) Leader's Retreat, April 18-20, OB orientation begins June 13 and OBI orientation begins June 23, plus many other CE National events.

You'll find information about these and other events on the CE National calendar.

Fish Tales--Tell Your Story

Have a story to tell about your evangelism experiences? Go to Jim Brown's Fish Tales website and share it.

Jim created this blog for people to tell stories about sharing their faith, "moving the numbers" to get people closer to Christ. Jim says that most people need seven gospel touches before they become believers, so when we share our faith it moves people one number closer to actually accepting Christ. Go to www.igo08.blogspot.com to share your story.

Jim is Senior Pastor of Grace Community Church, Goshen, Ind., and a CE National Board member.

Who's Going On Operation Barnabas 2008?

See who's going on Operation Barnabas 2008 by going to the Operation Barnabas website Resources Page.

Operation Barnabas is CE National's summer ministry program. This year three teams of students will travel from California to Ohio, ministering in churches along the way. To find out more, go to www.operationbarnabas.net.

Quizzing Helps To Hide God's Word

CE National is committed to encouraging Christians to memorize the Word. Bible Quizzing is a great program to encourage students to do just that with the incentive of some friendly competition.

The 2007-2008 Bible Quizzing Finals will be held at Momentum East youth conference in Cedarville, Ohio, July 21-27, 2008. Throughout the year, church teams compete at district quizzing rallies to determine the team they will send to the national competition. Students are competing on the books of John and Revelation this year.

The second annual Bible Quizzing Invitational (BQI) will be held the weekend of November 21-23 at CE National in Winona Lake, Ind. BQI, which is open to teams from any church, will include play-offs, challenges, and seminars for students and is a great way to encourage students to study and memorize the Bible during the year.

For the 2008-2009 season, students will be quizzing on John 13-21 and Acts 1-11.