Handing Children a Love for Jesus--National Children's Sunday

The Children’s Cabinet of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches would like to encourage each church to have a Children’s Sunday every year to honor children’s staff and the children in their congregation. Donna Yost, Dir. Of Children and Women's Ministries at Grace Brethren Church, Wooster, Ohio, helps put the Children's Sunday materials together each year. To get the resources to do a Children's Sunday in your church, go to the Children's Sunday Page on the CE National website.

Grace Brethren Influence Continues Outside the Fellowship

A candid picture of Dan Cosentino
at the retreat

Even though it is a church not connected directly with the Grace Brethren Fellowship, Dan, Pastor Tom, and the people are happy to partner together in CE National ministries. This summer they hope to have an Operation Barnabas team at their church and participate in Momentum. It was great that Timothy Kurtaneck, Director of Church Relations & Youth Leadership Training at CE National, could be the speaker at their recent youth retreat.

About 40 people gathered at Camp Lakewood in Northeast Indiana for a great weekend of fun, games, sledding, relationship-building and focusing on God’s Word. Other than a couple minor bumps and bruises from the sledding, it was a terrific and memorable weekend. Read more and see pictures...

Momentum Photographer Featured on Flickr

Hummingbird photo by Janine

Janine

For the past several years, many of the pictures of youth conference you see on the Momentum website and in print have been taken by Janine Russell. Her eye and camera lens do a wonderful job of capturing the essence of Momentum youth conference.

Each week, the group "Impressed By Your Beauty", on the photo sharing website Flickr, chooses an artist to spotlight. Last week, Janine was featured in an interview. Her faith in God came through as she shared her testimony.

Janine's husband, Dennis, is a member of the CE National Board of Directors. They attend Grace Community Chapel in Mukilteo, Washington.

Read the interview on Flickr.com

New Holland Day Away--Lancaster, Pa.

The Grace Brethren Church in New Holland, Pa., will host the Lancaster Area Day Away--North of 55 on April 18. The president of Lancaster Bible College and Graduate School, Dr. Peter Teague, will be the guest speaker. Ryan and Friends, comedian and ventriloquist, will return for more side-splitting entertainment and lunch will be served at Shady Maple Smorgasbord. Read more...

New Arrival in Norwalk, Calif.

Congratulations to Timothy and Janine Lansing of Norwalk, Calif. Wesley James was born Monday morning, February 4, at 5 a.m. He weighed in at 7 lbs. 5 oz.

Timothy is Minister of Youth at the Grace Brethren Church in Norwalk, Calif.

Cathy's Corner--Resources on Homosexuality

Where do you go for resources if there is someone in your church struggling with homosexuality? CE National has resources available to borrow free of charge on this and other topics relating to church and personal ministry. Here are just a few of the many resources available.

A Three-part Study on Sexual Healing Vol. 1,2 and 3: by David Foster available in both video and audio cassette

When Homosexuality Hits Home: By Joe Dallas (book)

The Facts on Homosexuality: By John Ankerberg and John Weldon. (book)

Incredible Ministry Opportunities at Momentum Youth Conferences

Don't forget to check out the new videos and information on Momentum East and Momentum West at www.BuildMomentum.org.

Youth Groups will have the opportunity to do incredible ministries at Momentum West. To allow for these off campus opportunities, there will only be optional programming on the Biola campus from Wednesday morning until Friday afternoon. Ministering together, youth groups will be able to either sleep at the Biola campus or at their place of ministry during those 2 1/2 days. Training sessions by coordinators will be available at Momentum on Tuesday afternoon, prior to these ministry experiences, to prepare youth workers. Read more...

412 Students Prepare for Valentine's Church Outreach

The 412 Commission students spent yesterday (February 13) preparing for Grace Community Church's annual Valentine's Day Hershey Hand-Out Blitz. 7,750 ounces of chocolate will be given out today by people from that church. This blitz, and others that Grace Community does, always reflects a positive image of the church and of the Lord. Some of the events the church does are for sowing seeds, others for watering the soil, and others for harvesting. Read more and see pictures...

Serve the Poor and Needy in New York City and Philadelphia

Are you interested in visiting New York City and Philly to serve the poor and needy there? Then the Metropolitan MAP Team may be for you.

Led by Ron Shank, Youth Pastor of Maranatha Brethren Church, Hagerstown, Md., 25 people will minister to the needs of others in the inner city May 15-19, 2008.

Also, Adam Johnson is leading a MAP team to Pearlington, Miss., April 10-16.

Michael Saldivar is leading a team to San Francisco March 24-28, partnering with YWAM. YWAM's theme this year is taken from Micah 6:8 focusing on where your steps take you. Momentum youth conferences' theme of iCARE is from the same Scripture verse.

Go to the MAP Team Page of the Momentum website to find out more.