September 22, 2012

Energy High in Buffalo
The music might have drawn more than 11,300 people to Saturday's free Rock the Lakes event, but each performer pointed to something greater guests could take away.

September 21, 2012

1,500 Counselors Ready in Buffalo
Thousands of locals have completed training to share their faith in preparation for Rock the Lakes in Buffalo, N.Y.

September 21, 2012

Buffalo Football Legacy at Rock the Lakes
After their son Hunter was diagnosed with a fatal disease at the age of four months, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly and his wife Jill took different path's before surrendering their lives to Christ.

September 21, 2012

Empowering New York Youth
As Rock the Lakes kicks off, tweens and teens in Buffalo are urged to take action and reach out to their peers. The need is there, one leader says, and the youth can do something about it.

September 20, 2012

Buffalo Ready for Rock the Lakes
"If we fill the seats at Coca-Cola Field with just Christians, we will miss our whole reason for Rock the Lakes and that is to see people come to Christ," said the Buffalo festival director in a recent interview.

September 19, 2012

Community Action Effort Softens Hearts
Volunteers working on Community Action Projects in Buffalo showed the love of Christ to residents with their actions, softening hearts and getting the word out about this weekend's Rock the Lakes event.

September 19, 2012

Reaching 'The Generation' in Ottawa
Years after first hearing about the BGEA's evangelistic music festival outreach, youth pastor Colleen Noble — who has a heart to reach young people in "all walks of life," — simply couldn't believe it when she heard Rock the River was coming to Ottawa: "Everything inside me jumped."

August 19, 2012

Rock the Lakes Lights Up Green Bay Sky
Capping off a weekend where 24,000 people descended on downtown Green Bay, hundreds more took the bold step to invite Christ as their Lord and Savior and despite a brief downpour, God's natural beauty showed up in more ways than one.

August 18, 2012

Life-changing Moments in Green Bay
There was Skillet, The Afters, Lacey from Flyleaf and a powerful message by Franklin Graham. But it was the work of the Holy Spirit that turned ordinary moments into life-changing decisions for Christ at Rock the Lakes Green Bay.

August 17, 2012

Community Action Project Blesses Green Bay
Crossroads Community Church in downtown Green Bay — with nearly half its congregation trained to share Christ at this weekend's Rock the Lakes event, just eight blocks away — received a huge emotional and physical makeover with last weekend's Community Action Project.

August 14, 2012

'A Spiritual Awakening' in Green Bay?
They love their Packers. And their hunting and fishing. But what about God? "They don't get into that much." That could change in an instant this weekend as the Gospel message of Jesus is preached at Leicht Park in downtown Green Bay.

June 21, 2012

Packin' the Good News to Green Bay
The only NFL city where Billy Graham didn't preach, Green Bay will host a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association event in August called Rock the Lakes, with Franklin Graham and musical artists such as Skillet, The Afters and Michael W. Smith.

June 17, 2012

God's Great Grace on the Great Lakes
God used each of the artists, many video testimonies, Franklin Graham’s preaching and Will Graham’s concluding message to reach hearts in Rochester.

June 16, 2012

Rock the Lakes: Saturday Update
Highlights from Rochester...just south of Lake Ontario!

June 15, 2012

Takin' It to the Streets
Inviting the down and out in Rochester to Rock the Lakes is just one more way a local street ministry demonstrates the tangible love of Jesus.

June 14, 2012

Rock-n-Revival in Rochester
Residents of this Great Lakes city pray that a Rochester Revival, much like the one in the 1830s, is on the horizon.

June 14, 2012

Following Up with New Baltic Believers
With hundreds of decisions made for Christ in several different languages at last weekend's Baltic Youth Festival in Riga, Latvia, a seven-week online Tuesday night Bible study is being used to help disciple new believers in Christ.

June 12, 2012

Rochester's Pre-Festival Harvest
In the months leading up to the June 16-17 youth-oriented outreach, churches started to work together in new ways, young people made decisions to accept Christ at the FM419 training event, and two pastors reconciled a past hurt.

June 9, 2012

Baltic Youth Drenched in the Spirit
The historic one-day, two-session, 10-hour Baltic Youth Festival ended after midnight with more than 19,000 hearing the Gospel message, and hundreds flooding the stage area twice to make a life-changing decision to follow Jesus.

June 8, 2012

Looking for the Baltic Missing Generation
For some middle-aged Latvians, who have grown up under Soviet rule, finding what it means to have a true relationship with Jesus Christ may only happen through their children, making the June 9 Baltic Youth Festival even more critical.