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Breakout Sessions

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Thursday, June 4

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM · Breakout #1

Bridget's Cradles Service Project

Bridget's Cradles Service Project

Just up the road in Kechi, Kansas, in a little blue barn, an extraordinary ministry is at work — and they could use your help. Bridget's Cra...

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Dating and Relationships

Dating and Relationships

Heather Teis, Josh Teis

Dating in high school is one of the most exciting — and confusing — things you'll do. How do you know if someone's actually worth pursuing?...

📍 South Auditorium 9th 10th 11th 12th
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Homework Ninja: Real Strategies that will Help You Be a Next Level Student

Homework Ninja: Real Strategies that will Help You Be a Next Level Student

Keegan Hallmark

Let's be honest — nobody hands you a guide for how to actually do school well. You're expected to figure it out as you go, somewhere between...

📍 Studio 45
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How to Get Serious About Studying Your Bible with Mary Alice Hoover

How to Get Serious About Studying Your Bible with Mary Alice Hoover

Mary Alice Hoover

Most of us own a Bible. Most of us have tried to read it. And most of us have closed it ten minutes later wondering what we just read — and...

📍 North Auditorium
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Offline and On Track... Finding Fun Without a Screen

Offline and On Track... Finding Fun Without a Screen

Daniel Mahannah

Quick experiment: think about what you did for fun the last time you were genuinely bored. If the honest answer is "I picked up my phone," w...

📍 North Commons
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Worship Jam

Worship Jam

Austin Renfroe

There's something powerful about a room full of teenagers singing to Jesus at the top of their lungs. Worship Jam is exactly that — an infor...

📍 Student Auditorium
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Thursday, June 4

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM · Breakout #2

Friday, June 5

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM · Breakout #3

Apologetics 101: How to explore and explain what you believe

Apologetics 101: How to explore and explain what you believe

Stephen Hoover

Sooner or later, somebody's going to ask you a hard question about your faith. How do you know God is real? Why would a good God allow suffe...

📍 Adventure Avenue Theatre
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Leading When You're Not in Charge

Leading When You're Not in Charge

Roger Mericle

Most leadership talks assume you've already got the title, the team, and the corner office. But what about right now — when you're a student...

📍 Student Auditorium
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Voluntouring - Check out ways to serve the Lord at NewSpring

Voluntouring - Check out ways to serve the Lord at NewSpring

You've been told your whole life that you're the future of the church. Here's the truth nobody mentions enough: you're also the right now of...

📍 KidzUnlimited Room 9th 10th 11th 12th
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Voluntouring - Check out ways to serve the Lord at NewSpring

Voluntouring - Check out ways to serve the Lord at NewSpring

You've been told your whole life that you're the future of the church. Here's the truth nobody mentions enough: you're also the right now of...

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Who's in Charge? How to make sure you're in control of technology and not the other way around

Who's in Charge? How to make sure you're in control of technology and not the other way around

Kody Page, Daniel Dixon, Patrick Emerson

Be honest — when's the last time you picked up your phone intending to check one thing, and surfaced 45 minutes later with no idea where the...

📍 North Commons
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Worship Jam

Worship Jam

Austin Renfroe

There's something powerful about a room full of teenagers singing to Jesus at the top of their lungs. Worship Jam is exactly that — an infor...

📍 North Auditorium
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Friday, June 5

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM · Breakout #4

5 Habits of Psychologically Healthy People

5 Habits of Psychologically Healthy People

Jonathan Hoover

Anxiety is up. Depression is up. Loneliness is up. Whatever generation you're part of, you've probably noticed that mental health is one of...

📍 North Commons
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How to Make and Keep Good Friends

How to Make and Keep Good Friends

Keegan Hallmark

Friendship sounds like one of those things that should just happen. You hang out, you click, and somehow people end up in your life. But if...

📍 Student Auditorium 6th 7th
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Teach Us How to Pray: What Jesus said about how to talk to God

Teach Us How to Pray: What Jesus said about how to talk to God

Kody Page

Prayer is one of those things every Christian knows we should do more of — and one of the things most of us secretly feel pretty unsure abou...

📍 Adventure Avenue Theatre
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Using Your Creativity for God

Using Your Creativity for God

Dale Poore, DJ Mahannah, Tiffany Nix, TJ Nix, Austin Renfroe

If you've ever been told that being creative is "nice" but not particularly useful — that art and design and writing and storytelling are fi...

📍 KidzUnlimited Room
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What it Means to be a Man of God

What it Means to be a Man of God

Dan Kubish

Culture has a lot to say about what it means to be a man right now — and most of it pulls in opposite directions. Be tough. Be sensitive. Be...

📍 Studio 45 9th 10th 11th 12th
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What it Means to be a Woman of God

What it Means to be a Woman of God

Debbie Kubish

Culture has a lot to say about what it means to be a woman right now — and most of it pulls in opposite directions. Be confident. Be humble....

📍 North Auditorium 9th 10th 11th 12th
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