Schedule

Register Today

12:00pm

Early Check-In and Box Lunch Pickup

2:00 - 5:00 pm

Opening Intensives

  • Doug Franklin: Building a Healthy Youth Ministry
  • Ashley Belknap: Discipleship for Students Impacted By Disability
  • Walt Mueller: Faith Meets Culture - Practical Steps for Engaging Culture in Youth Ministry
  • Joan McConnell & Ellen Dykas: Biblical Guidance for Youth and Parents in an LGBTQ+ Affirming World

3:30pm

Standard Check-In

5:00pm

Dinner

6:30pm

Evening Assembly

Chris Walker

8:30pm

Free Time and Fellowship

7:00am

Breakfast

8:30am

Plenary: Proclaiming Truth in a Culture of Lies - Youth Ministry in 21st century athens (Part 1)

Walt Mueller

10:00am

Break

10:30am

Morning Seminars

  • Joan McConnell: Prepared for Impact! – Parents of LGBTQ+ youth will need both emergency and long-term ministry. Are we ready?
  • Kyle Hoffsmith: Bible Teaching from Diapers to Diplomas
  • John Perritt: Necessities of Ministry
  • Doug Franklin: How Students Grow Spiritually

12:00pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Early AFternoon Seminars

  • Ellen Dykas: Relational Holiness and Sexual Faithfulness - Wisdom for You and the Kids You Shepherd
  • David Correa López: From Paul to Timothy and From Timothy to Youth Workers
  • Kerry Trunfio: Coming Alongside Parents in Youth Ministry

3:00pm

Break

3:30pm

Late Afternoon Seminars

  • Ashley Belknap: Supporting Students with Challenging Behaviors
  • John Perritt: Fostering Embodied Routines in Youth
  • Jason Engle: Responding to The Anxious Generation
  • Ray Garcia: Equipped to Seek and Serve the Lost

5:00pm

Dinner

7:00pm

Evening Assembly

Chris Walker

8:30pm

Free Time and Fellowship

7:00am

Breakfast

8:30am

Plenary: Proclaiming Truth in a Culture of Lies - Youth Ministry in 21st century athens (Part 2)

Walt Mueller

10:00am

Break

10:30am

MORNING SEMINARS​

  • Micah Marshall: Ministering to Next Gen - A Faith-Based Approach to Connecting with Future Generations
  • Jason Engle: A Biblical Framework for Cultivating Spiritual Wisdom and Understanding
  • Michael Hall: Leading from Theology to Methodology (and not vice versa)
  • Duffy Robbins: Translating Lessons to Life - Making Sure They Hear What You Think You Said

12:00pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Early AFternoon Seminars

  • Crystal Kirgiss: Head, Heart, Hands - Whole and Holy Discipleship in a Fractured Selfish World
  • Mike McGarry: Developing a Discipleship Plan
  • Josh Good & Kyle Fulks: Don't Maim the Body - A Heathy Church is Intergenerational

3:00pm

Break

Participants choose how to use this time

3:30pm

Late AFTERNOON SEMINARS

  • 5 Strategies for Effective Youth Ministry (Mike Terry, Katie Schneider, Brett Wirebaugh, Josiah Rios, Tim McAlpine)
  • Duffy Robbins: How to Lead Parents on a Short Tour of Youth Culture
  • Scott Shidemantle: Christ-Centered Teaching - Moving Beyond Morality Rants
  • Crystal Kirgiss: In Search of Adolescence - What 800 years of teenagers can teach us today

5:00pm

Dinner

7:00pm

Evening Assembly

Chris Walker

8:30pm

Free Time and Fellowship

8:00am

Breakfast

9:00am

Conference Debrief

Roundtable Discussion and Practical Application Facilitated by Doug Franklin

11:00am

Closing Assembly