One week with 100 students, young professionals, and creatives from around Aotearoa, New Zealand to explore the Christian faith and what it means for our lives.
What is it all about?
The Christian faith is deep, alive, and worth living well. It speaks of our world as filled with beauty and meaning, created by a good God with good purpose. It calls us to live lives marked by wonder, imagination, deep thought, rich feeling, love, courage, and service. This faith has transformed the lives of people for generations: it’s given new energy and meaning to the student at her desk, the worker in his office, the athlete with her team, the writer with his pen, the scientist in her lab.
For more than a decade, Summer Conference has been helping young adults explore this vision of God, ourselves, and the world, and how it affects all parts of life. Over a week of learning, conversation, good food, and fun, you too can come to see the truth, beauty, and challenge of the Christian life.
What can I expect?
The week-long conference is challenging, life-giving, and creative. It’s for young adults 18-30 years old, is fully residential, and is held at St Peter’s School, Cambridge in the beautiful Waikato. The conference is dynamic and expansive: across the week, you will be immersed in rich teaching, creative responses, local field trips, and group discussions. You’ll also have heaps of time in the afternoons to soak up the sun and to cool off in Lake Karapiro.
During the week you can expect to:
• Think deeply about the big questions of faith and life.
• Explore the ideas and stories that have shaped and are shaping New Zealand culture.
• Hear from engaging and thoughtful speakers who love God.
• Be challenged about how you live.
• Eat well, laugh loud, talk a lot, and perhaps even disagree at times—all while making new friendships and deepening old ones.
Scholarships and sponsorships are available. Early Bird and Super Group prices available until 31 October 2024.
Learn more and register at www.venn.org.nz/programmes/summer-conference/
