Preparing for our Youth Leadership Conference

The teens annual Youth Leadership Conference monies are due this week and to help fund this trip, some of the youth baked goodies and sold them after Sunday services on November 16th. The youth were blown away by the generosity of our church body as they made almost $200 off of home made cookies, popcorn, cupcakes, and goodies.
The Conference is not until February, however getting our funds turned in in the next few weeks guarantees us host homes while we're in Walla Walla.

Our group will be leaving on Thursday, February 26th and traveling to Life Church in Walla Walla. We will arrive on Thursday Evening and will get signed in and head into our first session. The first session is usually comprised of approximately 1 hour of spirit filled worship and about an hour long message from a main conference speaker. After this session, we get to head back to our host homes, meet our host families, and discuss what we heard that first session.

On Day 2, February 27th, we wake up and head to Session 2 of worship and another message. After our morning session, we have a break where we eat lunch and have a prayer meeting. Session 3 follows lunch where in the past we  have experienced different things: group breakouts where we can choose a topic to hear a message on, spoken words delivered by teenagers, the opportunity to be prophesied over, or have questions answered by a panel of pastors. We then have a dinner break and come back for Session 4, which in the past has been our longest, most meaningful session filled with worship, the sharing of God's word, spiritual and sometimes physical healing, and prophesying.

On Day 3, we will say goodbye to our host families and hit our last conference session of worship and a message before returning home.
The theme of our Leadership Conference this year is "Liberate the Streets." Below is the vision from G3, Life Church Youth Group's, Youth Pastor, Cole Massey.
"The Bible reveals a mandate  for our generation to bring light into darkness or in our definition: liberate the streets. I dare you to believe that our schools can be saved, our families can be restored and impossible situations can be overcome by the power of Jesus liberating our streets. For thousands of years, men and women have laid down their lives as warriors in this battle. Now is the time to rise and run for the revolution. Join an army of young people who are passionate about change, focused on God's plan and mobile in our efforts to liberate the streets" -Cole Massey
#Liberate the Streets