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Blue Mountain Academy

The dream of having a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school became a reality when the East Pennsylvania Conference Constituency voted on May 11, 1952, to launch a boarding academy project. Today BMA celebrates 50 years of educating young people, and weare  proud to have graduated more than 3,000 students! After 50 years of service, BMA has many urgent needs.  In recognition of this, the BMA board has approved a Capital Campaign designed to address these and many other pressing issues.  Though ambitious, we view it with the same level of faith and vision that empowered the academy’s early pioneers more than 50 years ago.  We move forward prayerfully with this campaign in order to perpetuate their dream and to make it our own. Currently dorm bathrooms are being renovated. You can help with the bathroom renovations and capital campaign by giving through your local church (mark your tithe envelope "BMA Capital Campaign") or by giving directly to BMA online.

Cool Camp

Cool Camp provides a great opportunity for local churches to reach out to the children and youth in their community. It also provides an opportunity for youth and young adults to spend their summer earning money while sharing Christ with children who may never hear about Him otherwise.

Hope for Humanity
Hope For Humanity is the new face of one of the longest and most effective humanitarian ministries in the history of Adventism-what used to be called "Harvest Ingathering." For more than a century, Seventh-day Adventists have reached out to their communities to share in the support of the compassionate ministry of Jesus. Check out the Hope for Humanity website for more information on specific projects. You can give by makring your tithe envelope "Hope for Humanity" and putting it in the offering plate at your local church.

Pennsylvania Advance
The Pennsylvania Advance offering supports four important initatives in our conference: evangelism, Blue Mountain Academy, Laurel Lake, and church and school capital building fund. Each of these initatives are vehicles for spreading the gospel in Pennsylvania. You can give to Pennsylvania Advance through your local church by marking your tithe envelope "PA Advance." 

Arise and Build
Arise and Build is an opportunity for members of the Pennsylvania Conference help local churches get more adequate facilities in two ways. First, by giving to the Arise and Build offering taken the fourth Sabbath of September. Our goal is $50,000 and can be easily met if each member gives $10 a year--that's only twenty-five cents a week from January through September! The second way is for people to lend their skills and not-skills in actually building the church on our Arise and Build Big Day. So far Arise and Build has built four new church facilities--Shenango Valley, Honesdale, Washington Heights and Everett. Donate through your local church and mark your tithe envelope "Arise and Build". Then watch for advertisements about our Big Day!

PA Youth Challenge

Pennsylvania Youth Challenge (PYC) is a devoted team of young people age 16-26 who are on a mission for 8 weeks during the summer in the Philadelphia area.  Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Conference and Chestnut Hill SDA Church, Youth Challenge equips and empowers young people to earn tuition and scholarship money by sharing Christian books, called magabooks door-to-door, and to become evangelists for the Kingdom of God. Team members can earn anywhere between $1500 and $4000, plus scholarships. Last summer this team knocked on over 56,000 homes, shared over 4,600 books and prayed with over 8,400 people! 

We are now gearing up for our third summer, coming in 2011! To join the mission, visit us online at: www.payouthchallenge.org, email: info@payouthchallenge.org, or call 215-247-7022 for an application.

Laurel Lake Camp and Conference Center

Set in the beautiful surroundings of Rossiter, Pennsylvania, Laurel Lake Camp and Conference Center is a place where young and old alike have fun, make friends and grow closer to God. You can get involved in this dynamic ministry by volunteering, scheduling an event at the camp, attending an event at the camp, donating financially, and volunteering your time and talents with projects around the grounds. For more information, contact Gary Moran, Camp Director at laurellakecamp@verizon.net.

Youth and Young Adult Evangelistic Mission Trips

Pennsylvania Youth Evangelistic Trips are life changing. God will transform your life and impact others through you. The young adult that follows God to South America or Africa or somewhere else around the world, will work hard studying His word, preparing and preaching nineteen sermons, praying for and with other young adults, and leading morning devotions for the team. Young people are then challenged to return home and do the same thing here—presenting the Adventist message through a ShareHim series right in their own church, community, or at another church in Pennsylvania who is looking for an evangelist.
Most importantly, you have the opportunity to see God work miracles in the lives of others through you, transforming people’s lives for eternity.

Evangelism
"Go and make disciples" is the mission Jesus commanded His people to live. We take that seriously in the Pennsylvania Conference as we seek to "treat Pennsylvania as a mission field." Through friendship evangelism, holistic evangelistic approaches and through our traditional evangelistic series, we seek to share Jesus with our friends, neighbors, family and community--individually and corporately. One way to help is to get involved through your local church. Another way is to give to the Evangelism Offering. Evangelism changes lives. Hear the story of one life transformed through evangelism. Young people are invited to learn more about Cool Camp evangelism and how the Philadelphia Youth Challenge is changing lives..