NT-NL Youth Gathering 2022
2022-07-07 - 2022-07-10
CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF INTEREST
NT-NL Youth will be gathering July 7-10 for fun, fellowship, and service! This event is for any youth who were eligible for the 2022 National Youth Gathering. We will be using the 2022 Gathering Materials to center our time together. While we know we can’t replicate the experience of a National Youth Gathering, we still want to provide a space for our synod youth to gather together.
Each congregation must have at least 1 adult for every 8 youth attending.
Meals will be provided starting with dinner on Thursday through breakfast on Sunday as well as overnight accommodations. Events will start Thursday in the late afternoon and end with worship led by Bishop Gronberg on Sunday morning. Service projects and interfaith growth experiences will help us learn and grow in understanding of our Boundless God. See tentative schedule below.
Cost per youth: $50
This event is subsidized by the NT-NL Youth and Young Adult Leadership Funds.
(The interest form link has been closed. Registration closed on June 27.)
Updated schedule will be provided to registered participants.

MYJ2 Multicultural Youth Gathering 2022
2022-07-21 - 2022-07-23 | Briarwood Leadership Center, 670 Copper Canyon Rd., Argyle, TX, 76226, United States
NT-NL Multicultural Youth will be gathering at Briarwood, July 21-23, for 3 full days of fun, learning, and fellowship!
This is an event primarily for youth of color. Congregations whose youth group is made up of a majority of youth of color can register all interested youth, even if they are youth of European decent. Congregations that don’t meet this criteria can register individual members. The event is open to any youth who would have been eligible to attend the 2022 National Youth Gathering.
Each congregation must have at least 1 adult for every 8 youth attending. Adults do not need to be people of color.
Briarwood will host meals starting with lunch on Thursday through dinner on Saturday as well as overnight accommodations. Events will start around 10am on Thursday and run until 8:30pm on Saturday. If you need to arrive on Wednesday and/or stay through Sunday, Briarwood is happy to host you but no meals will be provided.
Cost per youth: $30.00
This event is subsidized by the NT-NL Youth and Young Adult Leadership Funds.
The final day to register is Thursday, July 14!
Indicate your interest here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1Rug5AwxDzxEocL52qF1IowHWDZ6jPcii6M246bQyQ6A8IA/viewform

ELCA Latinx Young Adults Gathering
2022-08-05 - 2022-08-07 | Briarwood Leadership Center, 670 Copper Canyon Rd., Argyle, TX, 76226, United States

Ordination and Installation of jj Godwin
2022-08-13 | Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1706 Slide Rd., Lubbock, TX, 79416, United States
SERVICES OF ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION
for
jj Godwin
as Deacon (Minister of Word and Service)
August 13, 2022
♦ ♦ ♦
By the Will of the Holy Spirit
jj Godwin
has been called as Executive Assistant to the Bishop to serve
Sierra Pacific Synod, ELCA
They will be ordained and installed on
Saturday, August 13, at 10:30 a.m.
at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Garland, TX.
You may watch via livestream on the church facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/gloriadeigarland
Bishop Erik K. J. Gronberg, Ph.D., presiding.
Rev. Tom Schwolert preaching.
Rostered leaders are invited to participate and vest (color for the day is red).
COVID restrictions apply (masks are preferred).
Congregations are invited to pray for
Sierra Pacific Synod and Deacon Godwin during worship on Sunday, August 14.
♦ ♦ ♦

Bishop Momoh visiting Texas
2022-08-19 - 2022-08-21
(Bishop Moses Kobba Momoh with Bishop Erik Gronberg from 2018)
Bishop Moses Kobba Momoh of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sierra Leone (ELCSL) to visit Texas

Make plans to join us for any or all of these events:
Friday, August 19, 11am – Reception, St. Matthew, Waco
Saturday, August 20, 2pm – Reception, Advent, Arlington
Sunday, August 21, 10am – Worship with Forum Conversation, Christ, Dallas

Synod Council and MEF Board meetings
2022-09-10 08:30 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Briarwood Leadership Center, 670 Copper Canyon Rd., Argyle, TX, 76226, United States
This will be a hybrid event. Conference deans and assistant deans are invited to join us.
Synod Council meeting: 8:45am – 2:00pm. Additional details are being communicated directly to Synod Council members, as well as to Deans and Assistant Deans.
MEF Board meeting: 9:00am – 3:00pm. Additional details are being communicated directly to MEF Board members as well.

Parish Lay Ministry Academy, Fall 2022, Course 1
2022-09-10 09:00 - 15:30
To register and for full details: https://www.ntnl.org/ministries/plma/

Public Witness Team meeting
2022-09-17 10:00 - 12:00
Welcome! We are the Public Witness Team for Peace and Justice of the Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana (NT-NL) Synod of the ELCA. We meet on the second Saturday of most months. Our mission is to give public witness to issues of justice and peace in the synod and in the community, and this includes both education and advocacy. One of our goals is to assist congregations in the NT-NL Synod in their efforts to be a public church within their own communities.

Anyone is welcome to join us!
Join via Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/9028368725
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Meeting ID: 902 836 8725

2022 MEF Seeds That Change
2022-10-01 18:00 - 21:00
2022 NT-NL Mission Endowment Fund (MEF) Seeds That Change annual fundraiser
“Grow the Good”
Join us as we meet past and future MEF grant recipients and celebrate their work building stronger faith communities.
Two locations. One mission.
Location 1: Christ Lutheran Church, 3001 Lovers Ln, Dallas, TX 75225
Location 2: Faith Lutheran Church, 4551 Southwest Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76116
Questions: Contact MEF@ntnl.org

Fall 2022 National Bold Gathering
2022-10-07 - 2022-10-09
Save the Date!

2022 NTNL-SWO Fall Retreat
2022-10-07 - 2022-10-08 | St. Matthew – Waco, 800 N New Road, Waco, TX, 76710, United States
The NT-NL Synodical Women’s Organization (Women of the ELCA) 2022 Fall Retreat will take place on Friday and Saturday, October 7-8, at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Waco, TX.
For full details and to register: https://ntnllutheranwomen.com/

Intercultural Competence Training
2022-10-12 - 2022-10-15
Offered by Wartburg Theological Seminary‘s Centro Teológico Luterano Multicultural (CTLM)
Vital Congregations – Vital Communities
This Intensive course is designed to enhance leadership competence in the development and support of Latinx ministries in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and among ecumenical partners. Those encouraged to attend are current practitioners, judicatory leaders, seminarians, church leaders planning to start new Latinx ministries, and those with coaching and/or supervisory roles among Latinx ministry leaders. Participants will explore foundational insights from socio-cultural, ecclesiastical, and historical Latinx experience, contextual theological tools, research results, diverse ministry models, and practical resources for new and existing congregations.
Presenter: Reverend Rubén Durán

Wednesday October 12 – 5pm-8pm
Thursday October 13 – 5pm-8pm
Saturday October 15 –9am-12pm

This class will be delivered entirely as an online course.
Congregational fee: $600.00 | Individual fee: $250.00
RSVP here.

Parish Lay Ministry Academy, Fall 2022, Course 2
2022-10-15 09:00 - 15:30

Implicit Bias Training
2022-10-17
For people who strive to see others as God sees them.
“We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of identity. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Research on “implicit bias” suggests that people can act on the basis of prejudice and stereotypes without intending to do so. While psychologists in the field of “implicit social cognition” study consumer products, self-esteem, food, alcohol, political values, and more, the most striking and well-known research has focused on implicit biases toward members of socially stigmatized groups, such as African-Americans, women, and the LGBTQIA2S+ community. For example, imagine Frank, who explicitly believes that women and men are equally suited for careers outside the home. Despite his explicitly egalitarian belief, Frank might nevertheless behave in any number of biased ways, from distrusting feedback from female co-workers to hiring equally qualified men over women. Part of the reason for Frank’s discriminatory behavior might be an implicit gender bias. Psychological research on implicit bias has grown steadily, raising metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions. – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Training is FREE and open to the public.
Available online two dates and times: Monday, October 17, 2pm Eastern, OR Tuesday, October 18, 7pm Eastern

Stacey Waters began her career with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) investigating unlawful discrimination in 2008. She attended The Lincoln University and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English/Liberal Arts. She attended Shippensburg University and earned her Master of Science in Counseling/College Student Personnel. In 2014, she left the Commission to work as an Equal Opportunity Specialist at the PA Department of Labor and Industry. In 2018, she joined the PA Department of Corrections as Chief of Investigations and Training where she continued to investigate unlawful discrimination and provide a variety of trainings including, but not limited to, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training and Unconscious Bias Training. In September of 2021, she returned to PHRC as an Education and Outreach Coordinator educating the community about unlawful discrimination and other relevant topics.
Offered by Kindling Faith: Center for Sabbath Rest and Formation (United Lutheran Seminary) and Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
Register here.
Click here for a flyer with full details.

RE:formation - Reimagining New Ministries
2022-10-20 19:00 - 20:00
Isaiah 43:18-19 “Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?”
October 20 at 7:00 p.m. Central via Zoom
A virtual evening of inspiration for congregational leaders in the NT-NL Synod
How do you know if God is calling you to do something new? Who do you talk to when the Holy Spirit nudges at your heart? Do you have a passion to see new ministries emerge but aren’t sure what the next steps are to live into it?
You are invited to experience an evening of inspiring voices to help you envision what God is calling you to FORM. Bishop Erik Gronberg and DEM Irma Bañales, along with the Revs Sandy Chrostowski & Ruben Duran from the churchwide office, will host a one-hour web event to help you transform your ideas into action. Hear from fellow leaders who share a heart for the gospel and love for the people of God. Plan on walking away equipped to serve.
Goals:
· Hear stories from leaders who are forming new ministries
· Teach practical steps to start something new (ministry, event, worshiping community)
· Share specific leadership examples and traits that are helpful to get new things going
· Begin fostering a culture of planting new ministries
Please RSVP to irma@ntnl.org by Thursday, October 13. The Zoom link will be sent once we receive your confirmation.

The Tenth Annual Herbener Lecture: Becoming More Human Through Worship
2022-10-30 | Wilshire Baptist Church, 4316 Abrams Rd, Dallas, TX, 75214, United States
Guest Lecturer: Rev. Peter W. Marty
Those who make a practice of committing their lives to worship discover, over time, something interesting. When they leave worship they see an “outside world” that is smaller and more paltry than they had thought. Its politics are puny, its consumerism is hollow, its care for the weak is peripheral. The very assumptions of what constitutes the “Real World,” assumptions that typically guide our lives as shoppers, scientists, social workers, and sales associates suddenly become undone once we realize how the grandeur and mystery of God make us more whole than the more cramped outside world. We can do all kinds of things on our own, quite independently and self-sufficiently, thank you very much. But what we can never become without worship is fully human. Worship is where we figure out who we get to be in the presence of a God who gives and gives, and always out of love.
Begins at 4pm
Dinner by reservation begins at 5:30pm
Sung Evening Prayer begins at 6:30pm
FREE ADMISSION: Free-will donation will cover dinner
For full details and to register: http://www.luthercenter-northtexas.org/

Celebration of Life: Bishop Philip L. Wahlberg
2022-11-05
A CELEBRATION OF LIFE
is scheduled for
Reverend Philip L. Wahlberg
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2022
2:00 p.m.
Gethsemane Lutheran Church
200 W. Anderson Lane
Austin, Texas 78752
A reception with light snacks will be provided following the Celebration event.
Those unable to attend or who are unavailable are encouraged to live-stream the service.
Live-streaming information will be on the Gethsemane website the day of the service: http://gethsemaneaustin.org
The following email address is provided for two purposes:
1. To notify the family and Gethsemane Lutheran that you are planning to attend and how many will be with you.
(If your plans change, it would be appreciated if you would use the email address to notify the family and congregation.)
2. To share a special memory of Pastor/Bishop Wahlberg for the family’s understanding of your connection with him.
Email: PLWAHL2022@gmail.com

Parish Lay Ministry Academy, Fall 2022, Course 3
2022-11-19 09:00 - 15:30

Conferencia Latina Celebration Service
2022-12-10 | Iglesia Luterana Santa María, 2601 S. MacArthur Blvd., Irving, TX, 75060, United States
On Saturday, December 10, at 5:00pm (please note the updated / earlier start time), a worship service will be held at Santa Maria de Guadalupe, 2601 S MacArthur Blvd, Irving, TX 75060. This worship will commemorate the reunion of this congregation with our Conferencia Latina and NT-NL. You are invited to join us. ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton will be present to celebrate with us. Rostered leaders are invited to vest; the color is white. Please RSVP to Pastor Moises Carrasquillo: pastormoises18@gmail.com

Blue Christmas Online Service | Servicio en línea de Navidad azul
2022-12-21
Women of the ELCA (WELCA) will be hosting a Blue Christmas online service on Wednesday, December 21, starting at 7pm Central:
“Our Blue Christmas Service offers a safe place to bring your grief, fear, and loss. Brief readings. Quiet and reflective music. Prayers. All are welcome. Spanish translation provided.”
Únase a nosotros para el tercer servicio anual de Navidad Azul
Advance registration required.
If you’re not familiar with a Blue Christmas service, here is some context adapted from a 2020 WELCA blog post:
We’re often taught that Christmas should be a happy season. But it’s hard to sing “Joy to the World” when sadness engulfs your heart. The reality of life—memories of the past and the pain of the present—can leave many people feeling less than merry in December. It might be the death of a loved one, a discouraging diagnosis, a job loss, or some other family crisis. Add to it the SARS-CoV-2 (often referred to as COVID-19) pandemic and all that it has wrought and continues to wreak.
We have committed ourselves to promote healing and wholeness in the church, the society, and the world. How can we do that for those who are sad or suffering this season? We will gather on the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere—the Winter Solstice—December 21. Into God’s presence, we will bring whatever weighs us down: the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, the brokenness of a relationship, loneliness, isolation, and worries for the state of our world, just to name a few. And we will be fed by words, music, and prayers.
Death and disappointment are very much a part of life. However, when we experience death or disappointment while the rest of the world seems focused on ho-ho-ho happiness, realities and expectations collide. Healing rituals like the Blue Christmas Service acknowledge painful realities and re-connect those of us who mourn with the redeeming and reconciling love of God in Jesus Christ.

Peer Ministry Leadership Training
2023-01-06 - 2023-01-08
From Janelle Miller, NT-NL Youth Ministry coordinator (ntnlyouthleaders@yahoo.com):
NT-NL Youth Leaders & Pastors,
We are excited to announce that we are collaborating to host a PEER MINISTRY LEADERSHIP TRAINING (limited to 6-7 per congregation) in January. This is an event where Pastors / Youth Leaders identify young people and invite them to attend.
WHAT IS PEER MINISTRY? It is the story of the good Samaritan. Only instead of preaching and teaching it, you get the skills necessary to live it!
Three Peer Ministry Tracks offered:
PEER MINISTRY I
You will enhance your skills of listening, helping peers and communication. You will discover how caring relationships are a vital ministry.
PEER MINISTRY II
For those who have completed PM I. You will learn more skills for sharing your faith, addressing sensitive issues and dealing with difficult people.
PEER MINISTRY III
For those who have completed PM I & PMII. They will apply their skills in real world scenarios, will help lead worship and will have discussions on “now what?” this group will put the skills they have learned into practice at their schools, churches and post graduation.
WHAT WE WILL BE DOING THIS WEEKEND…
**Attending peer ministry sessions
**Worship
**Service project
**Social event in the community
**Great food and fellowship
WHAT YOUR REGISTRATION INCLUDES…
**2 nights lodging (hotel)
**Saturday meals (3), Sunday breakfast
**Materials
**Saturday night social event
REGISTRATION
**Cost is $90 if registered & paid by November 1
**Cost is $115 if registered after November 1
**Registration includes quad occupancy at the hotel — your own bed is available for an extra fee
**This Leadership Event allows students to attend without an adult from their church
**A pastor or youth leader must invite a young person to be apart of this event.
We will also be hosting a JUNIOR HIGH & SENIOR HIGH YOUTH GATHERING in February.
Click here for a flyer with more details about both the January and February events.

Public Witness Team meeting
2023-01-14 10:00 - 12:30
Welcome! We are the Public Witness Team for Peace and Justice of the Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana (NT-NL) Synod of the ELCA. We meet on the second Saturday of most months. Our mission is to give public witness to issues of justice and peace in the synod and in the community, and this includes both education and advocacy. One of our goals is to assist congregations in the NT-NL Synod in their efforts to be a public church within their own communities.

Anyone is welcome to join us!
For this January 2023 meeting, the plan is to host a hybrid meeting in-person at Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church in Arlington, TX, with Zoom connection available for those who would prefer that.
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2023 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
2023-01-18 - 2023-01-25
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is January 18-25 with the theme “Do good; seek justice” from Isaiah 1:17

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Jan. 18-25) has been observed for more than 100 years, during which Christians around the world have prayed for visible Christian unity, striving to move toward the fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer at the Last Supper “that they all may be one” (John 17:21).
The theme for 2023 comes from Isaiah 1:17 – “Do good; seek justice.” The entire scriptural passage for the theme is Isaiah 1:12-18, which laments a lack of justice among the people of God and calls for God’s people to “learn to do good.”
The 2023 theme was developed with the assistance of a group of Christians in Minnesota, convened by the Minnesota Council of Churches. Minneapolis became a flashpoint for calls for racial justice and equity following the murder of George Floyd.
Like the religious people so fiercely denounced by the biblical prophets, some Christian believers have been or continue to be complicit in supporting or perpetuating prejudice and oppression and fostering division. History shows that, rather than recognizing the dignity of every human being made in the image of God, Christians have too often involved themselves in structures of sin such as slavery, colonization, segregation and apartheid, which have stripped others of their dignity. Even within our churches, Christians have failed to recognize the dignity of all the baptized and have belittled the dignity of their siblings in Christ.
Isaiah challenged God’s people in his day to learn to do good together, to seek justice together, to rescue the oppressed together, to defend the orphan and plead for the widow together. The prophet’s challenge applies equally to us today.
The North Texas Conference of the UMC will host an Ecumenical Worship Service at 7 p.m. on Jan. 19 at Custer Road UMC, 6601 Custer Road, Plano, TX 75023. The NTC will gather with its Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Catholic siblings to worship God together.
(shared from our partners at the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church)

World Council of Churches Resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023

Christian Unity Ecumenical Worship Service
2023-01-19
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is January 18-25 with the theme “Do good; seek justice” from Isaiah 1:17

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Jan. 18-25) has been observed for more than 100 years, during which Christians around the world have prayed for visible Christian unity, striving to move toward the fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer at the Last Supper “that they all may be one” (John 17:21).
The theme for 2023 comes from Isaiah 1:17 – “Do good; seek justice.” The entire scriptural passage for the theme is Isaiah 1:12-18, which laments a lack of justice among the people of God and calls for God’s people to “learn to do good.”
The 2023 theme was developed with the assistance of a group of Christians in Minnesota, convened by the Minnesota Council of Churches. Minneapolis became a flashpoint for calls for racial justice and equity following the murder of George Floyd.
Like the religious people so fiercely denounced by the biblical prophets, some Christian believers have been or continue to be complicit in supporting or perpetuating prejudice and oppression and fostering division. History shows that, rather than recognizing the dignity of every human being made in the image of God, Christians have too often involved themselves in structures of sin such as slavery, colonization, segregation and apartheid, which have stripped others of their dignity. Even within our churches, Christians have failed to recognize the dignity of all the baptized and have belittled the dignity of their siblings in Christ.
Isaiah challenged God’s people in his day to learn to do good together, to seek justice together, to rescue the oppressed together, to defend the orphan and plead for the widow together. The prophet’s challenge applies equally to us today.
The North Texas Conference of the UMC will host an Ecumenical Worship Service at 7 p.m. on Jan. 19 at Custer Road UMC, 6601 Custer Road, Plano, TX 75023. The NTC will gather with its Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Catholic siblings to worship God together. Please RSVP to Rev. Jessica Wright: WRIGHT@NTCUMC.ORG
(shared from our partners at the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church)

Click here for a PDF invitation to the Ecumenical Worship Service on January 19.

2023 PLMA Graduation
2023-01-21 | Emanuel Lutheran Church, 4311 San Jacinto St, Dallas, TX, 75204, United States
Beginning at 2pm

First Call Pastors Check-in
2023-01-24 14:00 - 15:00
Fourth Tuesday of each month
2:00 PM Central
This month, contact jason@ntnl.org for login information

Cultivating Compassion Session 1: Permission to Feel
2023-01-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
The NT-NL Public Witness Team for Peace & Justice are partnering with the United States Christian Leadership Organization (USCLO), Charter for Compassion Social Justice Sector, and Kairos + Collaborative to offer this set of FREE online episodes and practice sessions to help Make This Your Year to Cultivate Compassion!
“You’re invited to spend 2023 growing compassion for yourself, your friends, and even those who today you might describe as enemies. We’ll interrogate our emotions, reasoning, decision-making, and more as we work to join the infinite game of building peace.”
Access the full list of episodes and sessions here.

Specifically about this January 26 session:
Maybe you’ve heard people say, “facts don’t care about your feelings.” Maybe you’ve even told yourself that. It’s true in that facts don’t care about anything: they simply are. The same is true of humans: we simply are. Part of our simply being a human, however, is having emotions. And one of the choices we make in each moment is whether or not to care about our own emotions or those of the people around us. This month and next, we’ll explore the emotional dimension of our humanity, especially the way we can find meaningful insights about facts and our relationship to them by attending to our feelings about them. We begin our adventure together with Marc Brackett’s book, Permission to Feel.
Full details about this session (including registration) can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultivating-compassion-session-1-permission-to-feel-tickets-490320601117

A Spiritual Feast for the Journey
2023-01-28 10:00 - 15:00 | Advent Lutheran Church, 3232 S Cooper St., Arlington, TX, 76015, United States
The NT-NL Congregational Vitality and Renewal Team invites you to a warm and relaxing gathering to be with colleagues for fun and time away for spiritual self-reflection and renewal.
Includes lunch.
Purpose: To reconnect with God’s Spirit, Ourselves, and One Another
Goals:

To rekindle continuous listening for and to God’s Spirit.
To reconnect with colleagues and to better connect with our wider communities
To engage ongoing ministry with new spiritual insight.

RSVP by January 20 (extended from Jan. 9) to Pastor Jeff Borgwardt pastorjeff@firstlutheran.us or Pastor Irma Bañales, DEM irma@ntnl.org

Synod Council and MEF Board meetings
2023-02-04
Save the Date!
These meetings will be held online only. Since the last two years we had to move online due to weather, it seems wise to simply plan for that now.
Synod Council (and Deans) will be meeting 1:00-4:00pm.
More details forthcoming.

Junior High & Senior High Youth Gathering
2023-02-10 - 2023-02-12
From Janelle Miller, NT-NL Youth Ministry coordinator (ntnlyouthleaders@yahoo.com):
NT-NL Youth Leaders & Pastors,
We are excited to announce that we are collaborating to host a JUNIOR HIGH & SENIOR HIGH YOUTH GATHERING in February.
This event is for NTNL junior high and senior high youth! The event includes Small Group Activities, Songs, Games, Worship, Service Projects , & Group Dynamix! Registration includes programs, Friday hotel (quad occupancy), meals, and Group Dynamix).
FEBRUARY 10-12, 2023
8pm Friday night – 7am Sunday morning
(Our event will end with a Group Dynamix lock in)
REGISTRATION Fee: $120 Early Bird Registration (by Nov. 20 )
$145 Regular Registration (Nov. 20 – Jan. 22)
*Additional $30 for your own bed
Click here for a flyer with more details about both the January and February events.
