Youth Conference (Christian)

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This article is about the Christian conference held in Canada, Ukraine, and Belize. For the Hong Kong Youth Conference, see Youth Conference (Hong Kong).

Youth Conference is a large scale three-day Christian event held in numerous places around the world. The originating event, YC Alberta, is held in Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta. YC is managed by Extreme Dream Productions, a division of Extreme Dream Ministries.

YC is unique from similar Christians music festivals like Creationfest in that attendees must buy tickets to attend all main speakers and concerts, not just the ones they choose.

Extreme Dream has announced that YC Alberta 2007 will be held on May 25-27, 2007 at Rexall Place.

Contents 1 History 2 Format 3 YC Alberta 4 YC Ukraine 5 YC Manitoba 6 YC Belize 7 See also 8 External links

[edit] History

YC was organized by the Alberta district of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC). The first YC was held in 1994, with a group of 500 students. After being held for several years at the Centrium in Red Deer, Alberta, the conference outgrew the facilities and moved to Edmonton's Coliseum in 2000.

In 2005 YC branched out to hold an event in Ukraine, which was very successful. YC is still expanding, with an event held in Winnipeg, Manitoba and one planned in Belize as well.

[edit] Format

Each year, YC has a different "theme" that expresses what organizers wish attendees to focus on during the weekend, which starts on Friday, goes through Saturday, and ends Sunday evening.

On Friday, YC kicks off in Rexall Place, usually with a light and fireworks show. Then comes a worship music service, followed by a speaker. Then the evening ends with a concert.

On Saturday morning, there is another worship service, afterwhich two speakers present. At noon, the attendees are released to eat lunch, and browse the many afternoon activities YC offers, like workshops, numerous concerts, indoor games, exhibitors, and a marketplace. Then the evening brings a concert, a worship service with another speaker, and a final concert.

On Sunday morning, there is a worship service with a speaker. The afternoon brings similar afternoon events as Saturday's, and YC conclude with a final worship service, and a final concert.

[edit] YC Alberta

Year	Theme	Featured Artists	Featured Speakers	Special Notes
1994		Rebecca St. James		First YC
1995	Fear Not
1996
1997	Be the One	Jaci Velasquez Jars of Clay
1998
1999	Freedom
2000				First year in Edmonton's Coliseum
2001	Trasformation	delirious? LaRue Rebecca St. James Salvador
2002	Heaven	tobyMac Audio Adrenaline Michael W. Smith Phatfish	David Nasser
2003	Believe	delirious? Pillar United tobyMac Tim Hughes Third Day	Mike Pilavachi Jeanne Mayo
2004	Soul Revolution	Newsboys Pillar Generation Next Skillet Rebecca St. James United Nicole C. Mullen Audio Adrenaline	David Nasser Joyce Heron Phil Dooley Glen Berteau Sam Farina
2005	Consumed	Audio Adrenaline delirious? Drentch Everyday Sunday Grits Hawk Nelson Hillsong United John Rueben KJ-52 Kutless Mat Kearney OC Supertones Out Of Eden Sanctus Real Thousand Foot Krutch Toby Mac Tree63	Miles McPherson Bob Stromberg Mike Pilavachi
2006	Tell the World	Audio Adrenaline BarlowGirl Big Daddy Weave Chris Tomlin Grits Hawk Nelson Joy Williams KJ-52 Krystal Myers Newsboys Pillar Sarah Kelly Thousand Foot Krutch Tree63 Riley Armstrong Stellar Kart Tait	Miles McPherson Zhenya Kasevich
2007	King	The Afters Andy Hunter Amanda Falk BarlowGirl David Crowder Band delirious? Hawk Nelson Hillsong United Lincoln Brewster Leeland Rebecca St. James Parachute Band Seventh Day Slumber Skillet Toby Mac	Phil Dooley Joyce Heron Matt Costley Mike Pilavachi

[edit] YC Ukraine

Youth Conference Ukraine, or YC Kiev as it has been called, is a branch-off of YC Alberta held in Kiev, Ukraine. Around 5500 people attended the first 3-day event in summer 2005. Delirious? was a featured artist there. YC Kiev was run by Extreme Dream Ministries in its inaugural year, but the project is now being undertaken by the Alliance of Ukrainian Youth Leadership team.

[edit] YC Manitoba

Youth Convention Manitoba, or YC Manitoba is an annual Christian Youth Convention held in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 2005 YC Fusion, the original Convention name, had Mike Love — founder and president of Extreme Dreams Ministries as their keynote speaker at the conference. As Mike later recalled, he felt that Manitoba was a new mission field ready for an awakening. When the 2005 conference came to a close, Rob, the YC Fusion Director announced he would be retiring which led to the announcement of Extreme Dreams Ministries future role in the conference. Changing the name from YC Fusion to YC Manitoba, Extreme Dreams Ministries and Mike Love led the way with a well-received 2006 conference and continues to do so.

Year	Theme	Featured Artists	Featured Speakers	Special Notes
2001	John 10:10	Bailey’s Car Starfield Downhere	Steve Osmond
2002		Bailey’s Car Godspeed Skillet Starfield The Ripperz Resurrection & Life	Steve Osmond
2003		Bleach Thousand Foot Krutch Starfield The Ripperz
2004	Crave	Superman Threadline Tree63	Shawn Roberts
2005		Skillet Tree63	Mike Love
2006	Tell the World	Audio Adrenaline BarlowGirl Michael Larson	David Nasser Bob Stromberg Mike Love	Extreme Dream Ministries took over the conference Name change to YC Manitoba — previously called YC Fusion
2007	King	Amanda Falk Drentch Grits Rebecca St. James Tree63	Reggie Dabbs

[edit] YC Belize

YC Belize was announced on May 28, 2006 at YC Alberta by Mike Love. The event was not officially announced but it was mentioned that Extreme Dream Ministries planned on collaborating with other youth missions groups to hold a Youth Conference in Belize. The event will run February 23-25 2007 in Belize City, Belize.

[edit] See also

• Rexall Place
• List of music festivals
• Extreme Dream Ministries

[edit] External links

• YC Alberta Website
• YC Manitoba Website
• Extreme Dream Ministries Website