Steubenville

I love that show.  You have a family in need, people who are living in unsafe homes, raising their family through difficulty and distress.  Ty Pennington and his group of Angels comes in with their motor coach and gives the family not only a new home, but new HOPE.  A whole community unites to give aid and support to the family.

We can be new HOPE!  Steubenville St. Louis Mid America has set up a scholarship fund to help teens who want to attend our weekend conferences.  Not knowing the need, we put $1550.00 into the fund to help fund teens.  We have been overwehlmed with story after story of teens who could gain so much from the weekend conferences but cannot afford the $155.00 fee.  All totalled requests have come in for $4400.00.  In praying about how to distribute the funds available I thought, "We need  angels like Ty has." We need a community to unite to help deepen the faith life of these teens.

Don't forget to register your group for Steubenville.  Registration begins January 29, 2008 and will SELL OUT FAST, so don't wait to register! 

Don't forget to

Week 1: July 11-13

Week 2: July 18-20 

"You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses" (Acts 1:8)

Week 1: July 11-13
Week 2: July 18-20

The conference will be held in Springfield, MO on the Missouri State University Campus.  The cost is $155.  

If you want to be a witness, then come to the Steubenville Youth Conference and find out how.

If you want to be a witness, then come to the Steubenville Youth Conference and find out how. 

Can you believe it is that time of year already? In just a month registration will open for the Steubenville conferences this coming July.  There are two weeks to choose from, July 6-8 and July 13-15.  Each weekend will have teens singing, dancing, praising, and praying!  Are you planning on attending?  How many teens will accompany you?  If you have attended in the past, you know how the excitement is contagious.  Invite someone who has never attended to be part of the excitement.  The Lord asks us daily to be excited about Him, what better way than to invite your friends to be a part of it!

Do you ever wake up at night in a cold sweat, but don't know why?  How about going to get your keys and suddenly realizing you left the iron on for the 14th time that day?  Perhaps refrigerator magnets just don't seem to have the same stick that they used to?  Fear not, for modern medical science has recently attributed these symptoms to a malady known as 'Steubenville Withdrawl Syndrome' or SWS.  Tests have shown that SWS is not genetically traceable, nor is it linked to your proximity to an Elvis impersonator.  Rather, it is due to repeated exposure to a conference called 'Steubenville St. Louis/Mid-America'.  The more times you are exposed, the stronger the symptoms.  While a cure for SWS has yet to be found, our crack team of researchers here at the OYM have found temporary relief in the form of a song (scientific name - themeus allus accessi). 

Preparation for Steubenville 2006 began almost immediately after 2005’s conference ended, and the greatest part of preparation was for the mere fact that the Lord had blessed us with the opportunity to serve Him and all of you through not only one, but two conferences for this summer. And what a blessing it truly has been!

I returned this summer as the Steubenville intern, which meant I did everything from counting out 100+ lanyards for some groups, to organizing a room for every person attending, pulling all-nighters with Rosanne to print 4000 name tags, to most importantly, praying for all of you. I got to experience something insanely beautiful and moving that it touched my heart many times throughout the weekend just watching in awe as the Holy Spirit worked through all of you.

The first year of sponsoring two conferences for the youth of St. Louis as well as the Midwest has broken all kinds of records. Twenty-four days after registration began the conferences have sold out. A waiting list is being generated for each of the conferences for those who wish to attend but missed getting registered.

If you have not registered and want to get on the waiting list, simply go through the registration process for the week you would like to attend.

The OYM thanks everyone who registered, and asks for your continued prayers for the conference, the teens, speakers and all invovled with Steubenville St. Louis Mid America.

Two days ago, January 10th marked the opening of registration for the upcoming Steubenville conferences. Check out the weekends and speakers! Pick your weekend and sign up today. We are hoping for sold out numbers again this year, so don’t delay in getting your group registered. Since yesterday nearly 2300 spots have been reserved. This is nearly 60 groups for the two weekends. How great is that! If you have any questions, please give Rosanne Twellman at call at 314-633-2506.