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Get fired up for another empowering Christian Youth Summit! Did you know only 5% of Christian teens have a Biblical worldview? Please register now and be a part of the solution! It would also help our planning as we need to know how much Chick-fil-A we will need for lunch Saturday. Registration on line is FREE and required to attend.

FRIDAY, April 11
(5:45 PM) Doors Open – Check-In and Seating
(6:15) Welcome (Bryon Mengle, Master of Ceremonies) & Worship Music (Youth-Led Worship Band)
(7:00) General Session #1: Jonathan Noyes {Apologist/Speaker Stand to Reason} – The Truth About Relativism: We live in a relativistic world. One in which truth has become secondary to feelings and pleasure. During this talk, Jon will explain the history of relativism and show how it’s become the prominent belief in our culture, influencing all areas of life, including morality and even the church. He then offers some tools that help others see what’s wrong with relativism and why it doesn’t accurately reflect the world around us.
(8:20) General Session #2: Kasey Leander {Campus Director Summit Ministries} – Finding Purpose in an Age of Anxiety: Culture everywhere tells us to look within to find our purpose, but this is a dead end. It leads to burnout, frustration and purposelessness. Christians have a better answer by looking outside ourselves as individuals first – doing the kinds of things we are made to do as beings made “imago dei.” Because God orders, creates, loves goodness and fights for justice, we can take pride in doing the same. In light of that bigger picture, not a single action we take is meaningless, and we’re released from the anxiety of performance.

SATURDAY, April 12
(9:00 AM) Welcome Back & Worship Music
(9:20) General Session #3: Jonathan Noyes {Apologist/Speaker Stand to Reason} – Tactics: How to Graciously Share Your Christian Convictions: Have you ever been asked by a friend or co-worker to defend why you believe what you do? Or, have you ever avoided getting into a conversation because you didn’t want to get caught in the hot seat or look foolish? Jon’s dynamic presentation is designed to equip you with tools that will help you enter into and then guide conversations regarding any number of issues found in our culture at large. Learn how to steer a conversation through the use of questions while keeping the burden of proof on the person making the claim. And yes, learn how to get out of the dreaded hot seat.

(10:30) Breakout Sessions with Different Talks to Choose From (at 10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m.):
– Jonathan Noyes {Apologist/Speaker Stand to Reason} – Pursuing Justice: Justice has always been at the forefront of the cultural conversation. But when we say “justice,” what do we mean? What is true “justice”? The focus of this talk is to offer a full-bodied concept of justice and to apply that concept to all areas of life. At the end of our time, you’ll see that the answers to the cries of injustice aren’t found in recent movements or ideologies. Instead, only when we return to a true understanding of justice will our culture be healed and injustices remedied. Simply put, the answer to injustice is Biblical justice.
– Kasey Leander {Campus Director Summit Ministries} – Christian Sexual Ethics 101 (8th Grade and Above): Our culture has separated sex from romance and romance from commitment and commitment from marriage. All of this is done in the name of liberation, but it’s a terrible idol, and pain is everywhere. God’s vision for sex neither idolizes nor trivializes it – but puts it in perspective as one of many gifts that must be used in service to a bigger vision. In this talk, Kasey will hone in on the personal dimension of sex and why God might ask us to value faithfulness in this sphere. What is God’s design for sex, marriage and the family? Why would God allow someone to have desires they might never get to fulfill? In this confusing cultural landscape, asking the “why” behind sexuality lays the groundwork for answering other important questions.
– Michael J. Caba, D.A. {Speaker/Archaeologist} – Archaeology and the Bible: An examination of 20 archaeological artifacts that support the historical reliability of the Bible and also help us to better understand the intellectual foundation of our faith.
– Roy Swart {Founder/President The Ambassadors Forum} – What Apologetics Can Learn from Science: Learn how science can help us understand our faith and explain it to others more effectively. MIT-trained engineer, Roy Swart, will use examples from his career in the high-tech industry, as well as many other practical applications.
– Makyra Williamson {Oregon Right to Life} – Answering the Hard Questions about Abortion: This workshop provides an introduction to fetal development, Oregon abortion law, and the equal rights argument for protecting the unborn. It will also address some of those hard questions we may not know how to answer.

(11:30) Lunch Provided (Chick-fil-A)
(12:35) General Session #4: Kasey Leander {Campus Director Summit Ministries} – What do I do with Doubt?: Kasey will dive into the experience of doubt, and the reason to ground ourselves in Christian truth. There will be times in all our lives when we feel doubt. Our culture tells us that skepticism is the same thing as intelligence and emotion is the only reliable guide to truth. But the result is that, when Christians wobble, they’re told to deconstruct. That’s a mistake. Epistemic questions (“what can we know?”) apply broadly to all forms of belief, including atheism. We should (like Matthew Mittelberg says) “doubt our doubts.” Finally, Christianity doesn’t just stands on solid evidence. It predicts and explains our experiences of doubt.
(2:00) Breakout Sessions (See above)
(3:00) Summit Q&A with Panel: Jonathan Noyes, Kasey Leander, Stephen Williams, Dr. Sarah Williams, and Others
(3:30) Closing and Prizes
(4:00) Conference Ends

For the past several years, we have offered this event for FREE in order to reach more students with the life-changing, faith-building messages delivered at the Summit. Please click here to donate and impact the faith of the next generation and to help us cover the many costs of putting on this event.

TESTIMONIES

“I have NEVER been to a conference where I walked away with such great confidence that the kids I brought both gleaned truth and had fun.  I have been to many many different conferences and youth events, some of them big name ones, some smaller;  this was by far the most useful, spiritually uplifting youth event that I have ever been to. EVER!!!! No conference has ever (until now) provided to me or to the young kids that I minster to, the historical, scientific, logical reasons to believe in Christ. The kids I brought were blessed…”       – Youth pastor

“The first year I attended the Summit in 8th grade I had no idea about the challenges I would face concerning my faith in the next four years as I entered high school…because of the Youth Summit I was prepared for challenges to my faith that came along. Having been going to the Youth Summit for the past four years, I am now more equipped than ever to stand firm in my faith as I enter into our world with a Christian worldview that has been built on a firm foundation…”   – 16 year old

For more information about the yearly Christian Youth Summit, click here: www.ChristianYouthSummit.org