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Speakers

Our speaker lineup is incredible:
Julian Newman

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 DiaryOfADreamer.com.

Earl Creps

With two earned doctorates
and proven ministry fruitfulness, Earl has a unique combination of academic pedigree and practical savvy. So he and his wife are planting a church where those two streams come together: Berkeley, CA. Earl has a heart to help young leaders grow and wherever he ministers always finds himself surrounded by a crowd of twentysomethings. He blogs at earlcreps.com.

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Worship

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.

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Facilities

This year we’ll be meeting in a new location - Alliance Redwoods Bible Camp (Occidental, CA). This phenomenal campground will blow you away!

Cost

All prices include food, housing, and admission to all sessions.
Early Bird (through Oct 15): $150
Regular (through Dec 15): $225
Late (until day of): $300

And yes, you seasoned veterans of our retreat read correctly - we’ve been able to include meals this year. No more living off of cereal and trying to cook noodles with your coffee pot!

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BRING
* A heart prepared for worship
* Food for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning
* Camera
* Bible
* Notebook and pen
* Sleeping bag (maybe - talk to your roomies) - check roommates at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pR-gXJPcpTW7JYff-WevYSw
* Toiletries (there are several of you in each room, so don’t count on using the hotel’s shampoo).
* Warm clothes. The weather will be brisk but clear this weekend. See the latest forecast at http://www.weather.com/weather/weekend/USCA0537
* Some dollar bills for tips to the hotel staff.

MAYBE BRING
* Fishing Gear
* Musical instruments - especially rhythmic instruments such as guitars, djembes, shakers and the like (we’re going to have a freeform drum circle/worship fest one night).

DO NOT BRING
* That stupid receipt that the registration software sent you. Unimportant.
* A bad attitude.

Your registration DOES NOT INCLUDE FOOD. Each suite comes with a full kitchen (microwave, stove, oven, refrigerator, pots & pans) and we HIGHLY RECOMMEND you make a CostCo (or equivalent) run before making the trek up to Konocti - the facility is awesome but it’s in the middle of nowhere. Buying your food there will be difficult.

Featured Speakers:

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 blogs.

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:

Worship this year will be led by the UCLA Chi Alpha worship band. They rock. ‘Nuff said.

Recreation:

• Hot tubbing: just sit in the tub and stare at the gorgeous lake…
• Fireside relaxing: stretch out in front of your hearth and pretend that you don’t have classes breathing down your neck.
• Our own crazy plans: Nothing is final yet - but we’ve got some serious fun in the works ranging from knitting to indoor games of stealth and assassination (we appeal to everyone).
• Mini-golf: there’s a dinosaur-themed miniature golf course on site. it costs about three bucks to do this
• Fishing: Last year we watched locals haul in astounding amounts of fish from the lake. At least one student plans to catch his own food at retreat. California fishing license required - available onsite.
• Get buff: there’s a nice gym onsite that you can use compliments of the facility

• Photos are up in our photo gallery.
• Pasqual Urrabazo’s notes on deliverance are on our college ministry wiki.
• an MP3 of Char Blair’s session on homosexuality: Making the Church a Safe Place Again.
• an MP3 of Pastor Paul’s first session
• an MP3 of Pastor Paul’s second session
• an MP3 of Pastor Paul’s third session
• an MP3 of Pastor Paul’s fourth session
• an MP3 of Pastor Paul’s fifth session
• In addition, you can find other sermons from Pastor Paul online at the ICLV website.

If you attend The World Missions Summit you can come to the College Winter Conference for free (a $150 value).

Photos: check the gallery

Per Yen’s request, her messages were not put online.

• Stephen Lim: Beyond Career, Calling
• Stephen Lim: Maximized Living (notes, notes in PPT format).
• Stephen Lim: Common Pathways To God (notes, notes in PPT).
• Stephen Lim: Hippo, Housecat, or Lion?
• Debora Anderson: Leading People In The Baptism of the Holy Spirit (notes) (this is one of the learning labs we happened to catch on MP3–we would have loved to have gotten the others but weren’t able to do so).
• Will Klier: Communicating Christian Spirituality In Nonreligious Ways (HTML) (Word doc): notes only, no audio.

Worship
Our worship leader, Doug, has his own website. Check it out: Doug Reid Worship. In addition, Doug has graciously allowed up to place three prerelease tracks from his upcoming album “Inside” on our site. If you like them, buy one of his CDs to support his ministry.

The Tree
I Will
My Cry

Photos: check out the photo gallery

Messages in Windows Media Format
Saturday Morning: Five Lessons from Daniel (part 1)
Saturday Evening: Five Lessons from Daniel (part 2)
Sunday Morning: Preparing Like David
Sunday Evening: We Need the Holy Spirit’s Power

Also, you might be interested to know that Sam has written a book about his story: you can learn more about Five Years to Life on Amazon.

P.S. I know I said that I’d post them in MP3, but the MP3 files were something like 15 times the size of the WMA files. I’m probably doing something stupid to cause this, but I don’t have time to hassle with it. If you’d like to convert the WMA files to reasonably-sized MP3s I’d be happy to upload them. Email chialpha at stanford dot edu if you convert them.

Media Files

• View pictures
• Listen to Sean Smith talking about the miraculous on campus (coming soon).
• Listen to Henri Moreau talking about Making Sense Of Your Money
• Listen to Stefa Chappell talking about Leading Non-Lame Bible Studies
• Unfortunately, we had a glitch and Curt Harlow & Brian Orme’s session on evangelism wasn’t recorded.