Walk-Ins Welcome

Instead of the traditional Winter Retreat, this year Grace Chapel is hosting the Amazing Next Conference, a weekend of holistic teaching, engaging the head and the heart for Christ. 

Check-in will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Friday night. That night Grace Chapel students will stay overnight at a peer's home with their Sunday morning small group. After the conference sessions are over on Saturday night, Grace Chapel will break off by campus and head out for a night of fun! Pick up time is TBD by campus. 

Click here to register for The Amazing Next Conference.

Lexington Campus HS students: please fill out this waiver for the Saturday night activity.

Finally, a conference that will challenge and encourage your  students

As youth workers we have longed for a more holistic and comprehensive conference for our students. One that is not all hype and little substance. One that doesn’t just inspire or move the student emotionally, but one that engages the mind, helping them begin the process of learning how to think and discover truth on their own. Based on my recent book “The Amazing Next,” we have built a conference that begins a life long journey of what it means to live thoughtfully in a world that is so complex.

Our goal is to help students graduate from high school with a more firm foundation: highly intellectual, deeply spiritual, and rooted in relationships. We love the church and desire to be a strong resource for churches as they build bridges that will empower the transitioning student moving out of the high school ministry and into the world of college and adulthood. Youth groups will not just attend the conference, but will leave with published curriculum and a plan that will aid their ministries in addressing the specific needs of middle school and high school students.

Ultimately, we want to start a movement

This conference and its curriculum will be a support to churches and ministries like yours that are concerned about a generation of students walking away from the faith, or maybe more relevantly, not thriving into adulthood with a strong sense of identity and understanding of truth. Ultimately, we want to start a movement. We long to see students live in such a way, that like the early followers of Jesus, they change their world. They will not only be taught how to think, but how to live life to the fullest.

Brock Morgan, Executive Director of the Amazing Next Conference
More info can be found here.

Schedule

Friday

5:30pm – Registration
6:30 – Doors Open
6:45 – Leader Meeting
7:15 – Session One: The Heroes’ Journey
8:45 – Snack (provided)
9:15pm – Session Two: Good News About a Hero

Saturday

8:30am – Doors Open
9am – Session Three: The Heroes’ Struggle
10:30am – Seminar A: Reasons to Leave the Faith
10:30am – Leader Training: Youth Ministry in a Post-Christian World
12pm – Lunch (provided)
1pm – Session Four: Who a Hero Really Is
2:30pm – Seminar B: Work It: Connecting Your Sunday Morning to Your Monday
2:30pm – Leader Training: Youth Ministry that Leads to a Movement
3:30 – Session Five: The Heroes’ Movement
5pm – Amazing Next Ends and Saturday Night Amazingness Begins!!!

Volunteering

Since this is such a big event we are putting on, we are looking for parent volunteers to help out in various capacities. Interested in helping run check in, hosting a small group at your home? Contact the Parent Engagement Team (PET) by clicking this link or emailing Susie here.