Youth Leadership Summit

Dave Nicodemus talks about CELS Youth.

The 2012 CE Leadership Summit for Youth Workers will take place March 18-20 at CE National's Russell Center in Winona Lake, Ind. The Sunday evening event starts at 8:30 and is for any who want to come for fellowship and snacks. The summit starts on Monday morning, March 19, with a continental breakfast and will go until 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.

Personal challenge speaker will be Kip Cone, proclamation pastor at the Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church in Winona Lake, Ind. Kip will be the first speaker. Judy Gregory will be featured speaker Monday evening and Tuesday morning. Judy served for over a decade as middle school youth director at Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. In 2007 she took her present position with Youth Leader Coach in Atlanta, Ga.

The cost is $99 for up to two persons (each additional person is just $39) and includes two continental breakfasts, one lunch, and one dinner at Grace College. One lunch is at your expense. There will be give-away's, sharing, and discussion times, as well as some free time for visiting students at Grace or grabbing coffee with another youth worker. Free housing is available on a first-come basis for men only. CE National can also try to arrange free housing with a local family or we can provide a list of local hotels (at your cost).

Resources from CELS Youth 2011

Barry Shafer, author of Unleashing God's Word, and founder of InWord Resources was the keynote speaker. In the first session, Barry encouraged youth leaders to get into the Bible themselves.

Hear Barry give practical suggestions for helping students study the Bible.

Hear Barry give encouragement to deepen your relationship with God through studying the Bible.

Listen to the Practical Ideas Lab at CELS 2011. Resources from CELS Youth 2010

Special resources

CE National's SEVEN
A seven-week discipleship training series to educate local church leaders on understanding and discipling young people.

Ed Short, Senior Pastor of Grace Fellowship Church in York, Pa., was the keynote speaker. Ed's first address covered the need for a proper understanding of discipleship.

Download Ed's first talk. (13 meg)

Ed's second address covered proper equipping of disciples
Download Ed's second talk. (12 meg)

Breakout sessions
Mark Soto discusses the authority of Scripture. (5 meg)

Tim Clothier talks about Jesus. (5 meg)
Tim's notes. (PDF)

Rich and Carol Yauger give tips on counseling students. (6 meg)

Sarah Knepper and Stacie Fay talk about discipleship. (5 meg)

Mike Grill talks about prayer and the Holy Spirit. (8 meg)

Are you needing to "reach out and touch someone else in ministry," to find out what they are doing or be affirmed in what you are doing? Are you wanting to learn about different curriculum without having to commit to it? The CE National Leadership Summit for Youth Workers (both paid and non-paid) is the place to be. Here is a safe place to talk about anything relating to youth ministry.

Learn about doing a short-term missions trip around the world or around the corner. Hear testimonies of changed lives through youth ministry, parent ministries and Momentum youth conference.

Discover new ways to make youth group the one thing your students don't want to miss each week; how to connect with adults in the church; getting parents involved with their kids; keeping volunteers informed; strengthening student leadership/ownership; making the most of every outreach; and much more.

This summit offers time for engagement with other youth workers in your size church, sharing of ideas from the entire group and small groups for discussing timely issues.

The 2009 CE National Youth Leadership Summit saw close to 50 youth leaders come to the Russell Center in Winona Lake, Ind. Main speakers were Tim Eldred, from Christian Endeavor, Jim Swanson, Vice President of Student Affairs and Academic Services at Grace College, and Jim Brown, Senior Pastor of Grace Community Church in Goshen, Ind.

Download Session Audio. (Right-click and choose to Save the file)

Tim Eldred Session 1 (28 meg)

Tim Eldred Session 2 (28 meg)

Jim Swanson (30 meg)

Jim Brown (22 meg)

Doug Kegarise, Director of Student Ministries at the Lititz Grace Brethren Church, Lititz, Pa., talked about their student leadership program.
Download audio (8 meg mp3)
Download Documents (zip file containing Word documents)

Greg Summers, Assistant Pastor for Youth at the Grace Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio, talked about helping parents.
Download audio (6 meg mp3)

Mark Artrip, High School Ministries Pastor at Grace Church in Powell, Ohio, talked about the impact of pop culture on students.
Download audio (9 meg mp3)