On January 16 (MLK weekend), hundreds of college students from California, Oregon, and Nevada will caravan to Occidental, CA for four days of worship, teaching, and prayer.
Your registration price of $165 includes admission to all events and also covers your housing and food at the most excellent Alliance Redwoods Bible Camp. You can register online at the regular rate through January 9th, after which the price will rise.
We have some outstanding speakers this year: Karla Estrada, Denise Goulet and Eric Treuil.
Karla Estrada was born in Nicaragua, but her family immigrated to the U.S under political asylum when she was a young girl. She graduated from Sacramento State University with a degree in psychology and worked as an assistant clinical therapist for 5 years. Karla’s greatest passions are serving God, traveling around the world (she has done this), working with international students and hanging out with her very large “puppy” Keba. Karla now serves as a campus pastor at Sacramento State University.
Denise Goulet travels around the world sharing what the Lord has done in her life: being delivered from living in fear, anger, and insecurity to walking in faith, love, and authority. Through her dynamic walk of transparency and vulnerability she connects with people and draws them to the Father. She and her husband, Paul, pastor the International Church of Las Vegas and she is the mother of three beautiful children.
Eric Treuil is in great demand as a conference speaker because of his hilarious stories, practical insight, and skill at leading students to an encounter with God. He and his wife Annabelle have led the Chi Alpha ministry at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette for over 20 years and have seen the Lord build an incredible movement on the campus, so that it is now one of the strongest campus ministries in America. They have three awesome kids.
Worship will be led by the Chi Alpha at Stanford worship team. They love Jesus and they love helping people connect with Him in worship. They’re so excited they’re jumping for joy.
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Julian is the Lead Pastor and Creative Architect of a growing community of believers at Foothill Community Church located in the greater Sacramento region. He previously served as a college pastor in Grand Rapids, MI. He and his wife have three daughters. In his words, “By living in a ‘all female’ environment, I have learned to do what I am told, be quick in the bathroom, and that I don’t have the fashion sensibility and awareness that I thought I did. But it’s okay: I have 4 women to help me.” He blogs at
With two earned doctorates
Worship this year will be led by the CSU Stanislaus / UC Merced Chi Alpha worship team. They're fiercely Spirit-led and yearn to lead college students into a dynamic encounter with the living God.
Curt Harlow oversees college ministry throughout California, Nevada, and Arizona (he’s kind of like a bishop except he doesn’t get a cool collar). Both hilarious and insightful, Curt is known as one of the best speakers around. His messages are like ninjas—they stab you when you’re least expecting it. He
Sue Hegle leads the Chi Alpha ministry at San Diego State University, where she started from scratch and has built a ministry of over 600 students that has endured for several decades. Along the way, she earned a Ph.D., got cancer, was kicked off campus and forced to meet in a nearby synagogue, led the Rabbi to Christ, and won a court case allowing her ministry to meet back on campus. She is guaranteed to thoroughly unsettle you.
Worship this year will be led by the