Youth Worker Connection 2006: No Ordinary Day 2006

Dates: January 28–30, 2006
Where: Hyatt Regency O'Hare, Chicago, IL

No Ordinary Day. No Ordinary Gathering of Youth Workers.

Seminars | Speakers | Schedule | Registration

I look to your heavens, which you made with your fingers. I see the moon and stars which you created. But why are people important to you? Why do you take care of human beings? You made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You put them in charge of everything you made. You put all things under their control; all the sheep, the cattle, and the wild animals, the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and everything that lives under the water. Lord our Lord your name is the most wonderful name in all the earth!Psalm 8:3-9

“By the reading of Scripture I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me, the sky seems to be purer, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green, light is sharper on the outlines of the forest and the hills, and the whole world is charged with the Glory of God and I find fire and music in the earth under my feet.”-Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

Youth Workers Connection (YWC) is a time for all Covenant youth workers from across North America to come together for No Ordinary Day. It is a time to gather together for worship, to learn, and to play. We pray that you will be challenged, have time to reflect, ask questions, seek God’s face, renew your passions, be refreshed and worship with those who are called to serve our Lord and Savior. It is our desire that you will leave YWC challenged and eager to live an extraordinary life in Christ.

Each speaker will be sharing about how to live a life that is being impacted by our Lord daily and living each day to the fullest. Efrem Smith is the pastor at Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN. Efrem is a member of the CORE Seminar Training Team of Youth Specialties as well as an itinerant speaker with Kingdom Building Ministries. Judy Howard Peterson is the Covenant pastor known for her walk across America experience and the former associate pastor of Arbor Covenant Church in Madison, WI. She now preaches all over the US to young and old. Matt Lundgren (CHIC 2006 Mainstage Director) will be the worship leader YWC 2006. Matt is the worship leader for Axis at Willow Creek Community Church in Barrington, Illinois.

During free time, you will have the opportunity to attend seminars, explore the city, or complete CHIC training. Come early on Saturday and attend an early bird seminar.

Registration and check-in begin at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. Receptions for first time participants and veteran youth workers will be at 5:00 p.m. in separate locations.