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    17Mar, 2020
    Coronavirus Updates: Ministry Postponements

    Breakaway’s Nascar KidVenturez weekend retreat in Bristol has been postponed. We will reschedule at a later date according to Nascar’s plans. Thank you Bristol Motor Speedway, Munsey Church, and Bristol Raceway Ministries for your partnership. #WeAreInThisTogether

    Additionally…..

    Due to Coronavirus, we will not be hosting the mission team from Belfast, Northern Ireland, in April. We look forward to when the team can come to Chattanooga and serve with us at a later date. We want to give a great big thank you to those who have been partnering with us to coordinate this project: churches, agencies, host homes, volunteers, etc. WE APPRECIATE Y’ALL SO MUCH!!! #NoogaStrong #WeAreInThisTogether #LoveYouGuys

    • Tennessee Baptist Childrens Home
    • Adult & Teen Challenge MidSouth
    • Fort Oglethorpe United Methodist Church
    • Living Stones Church
    • Chattanooga Lookouts
    • Ooltewah UMC
    • Chattanooga Community Kitchen
    • Chattanooga Youth & Family
    • Chick-fil-A (Paul Huff Pkwy)
    • Wesley Memorial UMC, Cleveland, TN
    • Chambliss Center for Children
    3Sep, 2019
    Fall Break Retreat in Cherokee, North Carolina

    Our KidVenturez fall break retreat will be in Cherokee, North Carolina, October 11-13. Breakaway kids benefit from historical and educational Cherokee culture during the week: Cherokee Museum, arts and festivities, recreation, etc.

    This trip is afforded primarily to underprivileged children in our community. Breakaway Outreach offers camp and retreat scholarships for children of incarcerated parents, economically stressed families, and single parent households. If you are interested in sponsoring a child to attend the Cherokee retreat, the cost is $65 per child.

    Learn more about our camps and retreats here.



    Cherokee History

    What is now Western North Carolina has been part of the homeland of the Cherokee people for untold centuries. Today’s Eastern Band members are direct descendents of those who avoided the Cherokees’ forced removal to Oklahoma in the 1830’s the “Trail of Tears.” Their home today is the 56,000-acre Qualla Boundary in Western North Carolina adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. There are more than 13,000 enrolled members of the Tribe, over 60% of whom live on the Boundary.

    A culture, a people, and a place that’s actually a sovereign nation, Cherokee is located right in the heart of Western North Carolina. It’s also base camp for hiking in the Great Smokies, arts and crafts shopping, native elk herd viewing, hours of fishing fun, and home to a history that spans millennia.

    4Mar, 2017
    8th Annual KidVenturez NASCAR Experience

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    KidVenturez Weekend: The NASCAR Experience

    This year marks our 8th annual NASCAR KidVenturez experience in Bristol, Tennessee. Breakaway kids get an adventurous overnight excursion as they take in the thrill of a NASCAR‬ race at Bristol Motor Speedway, hear inspirational stories from those in the racing community, and attend a Sunday morning worship service. This program is geared towards kids facing adversity and made possible by community partners who provide scholarships/donations for these children to attend the weekend experience.




    About Bristol Motor Speedway

    0.533-mile concrete oval
    Degree of banking in corners: Variable, 24 to 28 Degrees
    Degree of banking in straights: Variable, 6 to 10 Degrees
    Straightaways: 650 feet
    Concrete racing surface is 40 feet wide

    Bristol Motor Speedway celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011. The half-mile oval hosted its first NASCAR Sprint Cup event July 30, 1961.

    In August of 2010, Kyle Busch made NASCAR history by sweeping the Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series’ events at BMS. It was the first time a driver had won all three events at the same track in the same week/weekend.

    Darrell Waltrip leads all drivers in the win category at BMS with 12 victories. Tied for second with nine wins each is Dale Earnhardt, Rusty Wallace and Cale Yarborough. Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch are the current drivers with the most wins with five apiece.

    Junior Johnson is the all-time winningest car owner at Bristol Motor Speedway with 21 wins. Second on the list is Jack Roush with nine.

    Darrell Waltrip’s seven consecutive race wins at BMS were from the spring of 1981 through August of 1984.

    Ryan Newman became the first driver to record a sub-15 second lap at BMS during March 2003. Newman grabbed the Food City 500 pole with a 14.908 sec./128.709 mph lap.

    The only father-son combinations to have competed in and won Sprint Cup races at BMS are Ned and Dale Jarrett, Bobby and Davey Allison and Dale and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

    Elliott Sadler’s victory in 2001 Food City 500 was the first for Bristol victory for Stuart, Va.’s, famed Wood Brothers team.

    Nine-time BMS winner Dale Earnhardt won his very first Sprint Cup event at the World’s Fastest Half-Mile on April 1, 1979 in the Southeastern 500.

    Rusty Wallace snapped Jeff Gordon’s four-year Food City 500 winning streak in 1999 and got his 50th win in 2000.

    Cale Yarborough led all 500 laps of the 1973 Southeastern 500, the only driver to accomplish such a feat in a Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Timothy Peters achieved a similar milestone in the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, leading all 200 laps of the UNOH 20.

    Richard Petty holds the record at BMS for most top 10 finishes with a total of 37.

    Richard Petty and Darrell Waltrip are tied for the record at BMS for most top five finishes with 26 each.

    The most lead changes occurred at BMS in the 1991 Valleydale 500 when Rusty Wallace won the race after 40 lead changes.

    Johnny Allen crossed the finish line first in the inaugural BMS race, but he was driving in relief of Jack Smith, who gets credit for Bristol’s first victory.

    Kyle Busch leads all Nationwide Series drivers in wins at BMS with six.

    Kyle Busch leads all Camping World Truck Series drivers in wins at BMS with four.

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    28Dec, 2015
    Breakaway Winter Youth Retreat in Pigeon Forge

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    The Breakaway winter youth retreat will be in Pigeon Forge, January 22-24. Our high school and middle school youth will attend the Resurrection Conference at the LeConte Center and experience fun adventures at Ober Gatlinburg.

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    Resurrection Conference is an awesome annual event of worship and spiritual growth for youth and youth mentors. Each year over 12,000 come together in Gatlinburg, TN, to celebrate the God of The Resurrection. Through inspirational words and music led by nationally-known speakers and musicians, young people encounter the Lord in new and deeper ways.

    Resurrection 2016 is at a brand-new location in Pigeon Forge, TN. The LeConte Center in Pigeon Forge offers a larger facility which allows us to have everyone under one roof for one amazing weekend.

    What is Resurrection?

    For many, Resurrection is an opportunity for conversion, decision, and revival. For others, it becomes a moment of realization that their faith needs to grow deeper and more serious.

    Resurrection is hosted by the youth ministry of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. Most of the youth and adults who attend Resurrection come from the geographical areas of northeast Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia. However, a significant and growing number of youth and adults come from churches outside of this region.

    Resurrection has become an interdenominational celebration, welcoming youth and adults from Baptist churches, Presbyterian churches, the Christian Church, Lutheran churches, and more, as well as non-denominational churches; and from states as far away as Florida, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Resurrection testifies to the common experience of Jesus Christ’s living Lordship that binds all believers into one, despite our divisions. We desire to make all welcome here.

    Although Resurrection has become a large gathering over its 30-year history, the focus of the event has remained constant: the individual young person and his or her response to Jesus Christ. We recognize the leadership of their parents, their peers, their leaders in their local churches, and youth groups to grow in radical discipleship that can change the world.

    We invite you to come and be with us and experience the life-changing power of Jesus Christ—the One who is The Resurrection and The Life.

    The Speaker

    Fred Lynch is a dynamic communicator whose heart desire is to take the expressions of this generation and use them to glorify God through relevant, relatable and radical truths. At the age of 18 he founded P.I.D. (Preachers in Disguise) one of the first gospel rap acts and went on to record 6 albums.

    Fred is the author of The Script (an artistic translation of the Gospel of John in rap), What’s a Fo’ Sheezy? (e-book on slang with discussion Q&A), and The Real (New Testament in Biblezene form).

    Fred lives in Dallas Texas with his wife of 24 years and their two children.

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    Worship Artist

    Resurrection is happy to have Bellarive for the first time. This band has a passion for worship that is immediately apparent.

    From the band, on their unique name and their passion for worship:

    Bellarive is a made up word, but it does mean something. Over the course of a summer we spent everyday at my house. For us, it was a gathering place. A place to seek and find God, to make sense of what He was stirring. The days were filled with prayers and songs. Soon, they became one in the same. It was hard to put to words, but encountering God tends to be that way. Looking back, I think God was beginning to teach us not only who He is, but who we are in Him. I lived off a street baring a strong resemblance to the word “Bellarive”. None of us knew how to say it or what it meant, but we kind of liked that… It took on this definition: It’s the conviction that God is actually moving. It’s the belief that music is by design, a powerful and tangible space for the creation to engage with the Creator. It’s the realization that we are fickle beings prone to wander and wade in the shallows, but God has designed us to swim in the deep. His grace makes it so. This is why we sing. And when we do so, it refines us, and it helps us to remember that His plan is for us, not against us.

    bellarive.com

    Concert

    Chris Tomlin will also be joining Resurrection 2016 for a special concert.

    For over a decade, Chris Tomlin has been providing the soundtrack for Sunday morning worship services around the world. His latest song, “Jesus Loves Me” continues to show Tomlin’s humble heart as one in awe of the love that God has for him.

    More people have heard singer/songwriter Chris Tomlin’s songs than Adele’s, Katy Perry’s, and Kelly Clarkson’s combined. Chris Tomlin is undoubtedly one of the most successful songwriters of our generation, as well as the most humble.

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    15Sep, 2015
    Ryan’s Story: God Doesn’t Waste Our Pain

    God Will Never Waste Our Pain

    As a kid living in San Diego, Ryan described his life as “perfect” until tragedy changed everything on Mother’s Day 2006.

    “On that day around 10:30AM, my life would be forever changed,” lamented Ryan. “We were going to Yuma, Arizona to pick up a dog as a Mother’s Day present. We were traveling on a stretch of interstate when all of a sudden the truck started flipping.”

    Ryan was airlifted to the hospital where he later discovered the horrific news that his mother, Mellissa, and his sister, Kendra, didn’t survive the crash. He bears a scar on his wrist from that ill-fated day that compares nothing to the hole this tragedy left in his life.

    Scared, confused, and disoriented, the 8-year-old was terrified to get back into an automobile. He had constant nightmares that carried him back to the devastating wreck site over and over again. In hopes of starting their lives over, Ryan and his dad moved to Tennessee where they ended up in a public housing neighborhood. Their first night in the hood, there was a stabbing on their front doorstep. Two days into the school year he became the laughing stock of the school for wearing second hand clothes. He was bullied throughout the next three years. “The thoughts of losing my mother and sister plus the bullying was too overwhelming for me. I started having thoughts of ending my own life,” he confessed.

    On the day that Ryan was planning to commit suicide, he got an unsuspecting call that informed him of a scholarship opportunity Breakaway Outreach had afforded him to go to summer camp. He postponed ending his life and decided to go and check out camp. “It was the best decision I have ever made,” he said.

    Ryan had a life-changing experience at camp that also birthed some new mentoring relationships in his life. He went on Breakaway KidVenturez trips where he learned more about living in community with God’s family. Some volunteers with our ministry started picking him up for church on Sundays where he eventually began playing percussion on the worship team, got into a youth group, and was baptized. Since 2009, he’s been coming back to camp every year where he now serves as a staff leader.

    “Before the first year at camp, it was the lowest part of my life,” he said. “I know now that God will never give me more than I can handle. My life still has ups and downs like everyone else, but I know now that God has me no matter what.”

    At the time of this writing, Ryan is a few weeks into his freshman year at a Christian college. Two months ago he was part of a mission team of young leaders Breakaway took to Germany to lead a gospel-centered baseball camp for youth and children in Berlin, where Ryan also worked with Syrian, Bosnian, and Albanian refugees who attended our sport camp. It’s hard to imagine where Ryan’s life may have ended up had he not been afforded the kind of mentoring relationships he found through camp.

    One of the things he recently told Jimmy was that he wanted to mentor one of the younger boys we brought to camp this year—a boy who has a father incarcerated and has been abused by his stepfather. Ryan is a young man of boundless compassion. God never wastes our pain. He never wastes our suffering. Even though the pain of Ryan’s loss will never go away in this lifetime (it’s not meant to), God will always use it for His redemptive and eternal purposes.

    Ryan is now a Shaper because others have played a role in shaping him. We never know how our coming alongside of others is going to have a ripple affect in changing the world. We need to do for one what we wish we could do for everyone. Ryan is proof that a little love can produce a big change in a young person’s life.

    UPDATE (September 2016): Ryan has just officially been admitted into the United States Army, where he will be serving his country while continuing his education. We are so proud of this young man and praise God for His redemptive pathways in Ryan’s life!

    Thank you Breakaway partners for making all this possible! Your gifts change lives and help us foster resilience in kids facing adversity, helping them turn from despair and grow into responsible contributors to society.

    Hear Ryan’s story in his words