By Amanda Tate
May 1, 2006

Missouri Youth Convention 2006 was amazing!  Church services were held at the super nice Sheraton Hotel’s convention center in Overland Park, KS (just across the border from Kansas City, MO).

By Anita Sargeant
February 20, 2006

On Tuesday afternoon, January 3, 2006, Bro. and Sis. David Norris left me at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis after helping me to overcome any difficulties connected with taking all of the goods that I packed in my suitcases. In addition to taking supplies to some of the missionaries, my heart wanted to take things for the nationals and my luggage would not contain all that my heart dictated. The kind gentleman at the American Airlines desk didn’t hold me to all of the restrictions that he could have and as the Norrises and I stood there barely daring to breathe, he weighed and reweighed his decisions before he finished off the paper work and called the next person.
 
The plane lifted off in St Louis then landed in Chicago, where I boarded an international flight for London and then on to Accra, Ghana.

By Sabrina Roddy
February 6, 2006

Surrounded by all that is foreign to previous growth, students enter the realm of “college life” wondering, “Where do I go from here?” The answer? Winter Break, a retreat designed to equip students with the proper tools to evangelize their campus and to deal with relevant issues directly related to “college life.”

January 30, 2006
By Laura Aranda

Many have probably already heard about the outstanding Because of the Times conference that took place in Louisiana on January 17-20, 2006. My pastor attended this conference; when he returned, he shared the Rev. Jeff Arnold’s preaching video with our church. The message has so consumed me that every day I think about it.  

The 121 Soul Revival in Evansville, Indiana
By Aaron Henson
January 23, 2006

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh....For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call” (Acts 2:17, 39)

Interpreting Feelings in the Context of Your Relationship
Reviewed by Jason Ouellette
January 16, 2006

As I pulled into the Gaylord Texan for this year’s THRIVE conference (December 27-29, 2005).  I couldn’t help but remember how much I loved this hotel.  From the cowboy boots on the carpet to the star on the atrium’s dome, the hotel complex is everything it should be.  I haven’t been to many conferences designed by and for twentysomethings (I actually didn’t know they existed without  the word singles attached), and while I now know that THRIVE isn’t the only conference of its kind, I do know that—like the hotel it was held in—it is everything it should be.

Life Tabernacle, Elkhart, IN
Reviewed by Jamin Tuttle
December 12, 2005

A cool November weekend brought several hundred people together at Elkhart Indiana’s Life Tabernacle for the 2005 Weekend of Worship.  Commonly called the WOW weekend, it did not disappoint.  Over the past several years this event has grown, attracting artists from around the region, including this year’s headliners¾the Indiana Bible College Chorale and Roland Baker III.

By Kent d Curry and Liz Fierge
November 14, 2005

Most Christian conferences are about the now, the white hot moment of worship or repentance or rebirth. Consecration 2005 was different. It was about 4:27 p.m. on December 14.

By Josh Lewis
November 14, 2005

I sat on the church pew with butterflies in my stomach and an almost-uncontrollable urge to visit the boys’ room I’d passed in the foyer.  I smiled in a casual, friendly manner at old friends who sat around me, but my organs were tying themselves in knots.  My palms dripped perspiration, so I constantly dried them on my trousers.  I wasn’t responding to a fiery message; I was about to take a seat behind the quiz board.

By Jordan Newman and Sarah k. Holland
November 14, 2005

They come for the effects.  To clap their bright orange thunder-sticks along with the band playing in the crow’s nest at the back of the sanctuary during the Inferno X pre-show.  To see the countdown in life-sized Roman numerals change with the beat of the gong on stage, the band platform that moved both during and between songs, and to see the huge X of light at each side of the platform—signaling that this was the tenth annual Inferno—burst forth with light sticks that spread their way across the nearly filled, brand-new 2,800 seat sanctuary of The Apostolic Church of Auburn Hills, Michigan, on October 28-29, 2005.