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:

Local Sites

Church of the Brethren Sites

Ministry Helps

Youth & Children's Ministry

Colleges & Seminaries

Spiritual Helps

On-line Bible Searches

Local Sites:

• Boulder Hill, IL - a wikipedia site about our town.
• Oswego Community Unit School District - our local school district.
• The Village of Oswego - their official site.
• Waubonsee Community College - where futures take shape.  Our local community college.

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 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:

• 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.
• 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.

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.

On-line Bible Searches:

• Cross Walk - An on-line Bible study of many different versions. Has a virtual cornucopia of helpful tools as well.
• Bible Gateway - Another on-line Bible study of many versions, and also includes the N.I.V. (the USA's most popular Bible version)