January 2025
Once every three years, there is a youth conference known as the Life Conference. LIFE Conference is a week-long gathering of thousands of Alliance youth with a focus on Jesus Christ through worship, scripture, service, and community. LIFE Conference is for high school students—anyone who is age at least 13 on July 4, 2025 and has completed 8th grade and no older than 19 or just graduated from high school as of July 2025.
How much is this?
As stated in the previous letter, the church covers over half of the expense for each student. (hotel, registration (includes meals during the conference), and airport transportation is all covered) You are responsible for airfare and any incidentals along the way. Once we have the group formed, we will start working on transportation. Once I know the final cost, I will let you know. Your $150 deposit goes toward that. Feel free to make payments however you need to in order to get there. We will keep the cost as low as we can for you. We will also be asking for sponsors for students this year to help. Basically, if you want to go, we will get you there.
Details
We will leave on July 4th and return on July 9th. I am exploring options out of both Minneapolis and Fargo. We will see which one makes the most sense for us as far as time and cost. This is taking place at the Indianapolis Convention Center. Depending on how many students go, will determine the number of leaders going.
What needs to happen now?
In order to go, you will need to put a non-refundable deposit of $150 down. This will hold your spot. Deadline to sign-up is January 29, 2025. Plans will be made starting in January, so after that I can’t guarantee your spot unless you make it known to me in some way. Make checks payable to Battle Lake Alliance Church and put Life 2025 and the students name in the memo and hand them to me directly. You may also pay online at battlelake.org and click on give at the bottom. Select Life 2025 Individual on the drop down menu. Make sure it says individual because there is another one for special giving toward Life Conference. To sign-up go to battlelake.org/youth and fill out the form.
~~Pastor Derek Mansker