Helpful Links

This page is designed to provide helpful website links for your spiritual walk. Below are some of the web-links that we find helpful! Let us know if there are any that you think should be added!

Click on the category below to go the links:

Church of the Brethren Sites:

Brethren.org - The Official Site of Our Denomination.

Illinois/Wisconsin District - website for our church's district.

COB Youth - information about events for youth in the Illinois/Wisconsin District of the Church of the Brethren.

Camp Emmaus - Our camp's web site!

Way of Christ - these life-changing weekends are an important ministry that our church members support. Go deeper in your faith!

Brethren Revival Fellowship - A conservative concern movement within the Church of the Brethren, seeking to call the Church to a firm stand for the authority of the Scriptures, and to an emphasis upon the teachings of the New Testament as historically understood by the Brethren.

Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) - Serving Basic Human Needs - Working for Peace - Advocating Justice - Maintaining the Integrity of Creation.

On Earth Peace - An exciting program designed to help everyone learn how to live as a Christian peacemakers.

The Church of the Brethren Network - Membership driven, unofficial web site of the Church of the Brethren - contains a lot of tools that will be helpful in discovering the denomination and making contacts with others.

Ministry Helps:

CoachNet - The primary mission of CoachNet is the empowering and resourcing of members through coaching relationships. Coaching is the process of helping someone else succeed.

Link2Lead - provides the latest information about your community, hands-on tools to better understand and develop your own capabilities and a variety of additional resources to assist you in leading your congregation. This also includes Percept. Percept provides expert knowledge of your ministry environment, including demographics of your town and areas of ministry that are needed.

Cyber Hymnal - includes a plethora of hymn information - including score sheets, midi files, and words.

Lectionary Resources - a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library to provide resources for churches who follow the lectionary in their preaching.

Pastors.com - a helpful site for pastors and church leaders.

Church Leader Network - established for the purpose of networking church leaders around the world.

Free on-Line Spiritual Gifts Test - Discovering and exercising your God-given spiritual gifts allow you to experience maximum fulfillment with minimum frustration in your Christian life and ministry!

Bibles at Cost - the lowest prices on Bibles we could find on-line!

Christian Guitar Resources - a great site filled with guitar tabs, and chords for the latest worship music. It also has a running blog about worship.

Youth & Children's Ministry:

Christ In Youth - an organization with the mission to change the world by changing youth!

The Source - helping youth workers reach kids.

Youth Specialties - youth ministry training and resources.

Group Publishing - publishing company for life-changing ideas for churches.

Children's Ministry - tips, ideas, and resources for reaching kids!

College & Seminaries:

Bethany Theological Seminary - a Church of the Brethren graduate school of theology in Eastern Indiana.

Church of the Brethren Colleges - Information Page on all Church of the Brethren Affiliate Colleges.

Lincoln Christian College & Seminary - a non-denominational undergraduate college and post-graduate seminary.

Spiritual Helps:

Echo Prayer Ministry - Pure and simple, Echo is a tool to help you pray more diligently. Here is how it works: You create a prayer list; you set times throughout the week for reminders; & then Echo emails you one prayer at a time from your list.

XXXChurch - a site dedicated to helping those addicted to on-line pornography.

ReJesus.com - a British site helping post-Christians come back to Jesus.

Prayer Labyrinth - An on-line prayer guide that walks you through a virtual labyrinth.

The Ooze - an on-line conversations about post-evangelical culture, faith, ministry, and community.

Sacred Gateway - an on-line prayer guide.

Answers in Genesis - a Christian apologetics ministry that equips the church to uphold the authority of the Bible from the very first verse.

Screen It - gives in-depth ratings on violence, bady language, sex, etc. on the most recent movies and videos. The site also provides topics in the media to talk about with friends.

Kids In Mind - the purpose of kids-in-mind.com is to provide parents and other adults with objective and complete information about a film's content so that they can decide, based on their own value system, whether they should watch a movie with or without their kids.