A word from Associate Conference Minister, Rev. Dr. Barb Doerrer-Peacock:
We want to send a delegation of interested Senior High (completed 6th grade through graduated seniors) to the UCC National Youth Event at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, next July 22-25. We will also need interested adults to also take part as chaperones.
Registration will open in February. The Southwest Conference can offer to scholarship travel costs (we will plan our travel together as a group), leaving the registration fee (early bird) of $375 up to churches and participating families. The registration fee covers the cost of program, room and on-campus meals for the days of the event. There may be an additional cost for another night to accommodate the travel and incidental meals that participants will be responsible for. We will get a more complete picture of that and let you know.
In the meantime, we will plan to register everyone together through the Conference Office. To help us with that, we have an NYE Participants Guide.
To pre-register for the event, fill out the guide and submit it to the Conference Office with the $375 early bird registration fee.
Online: you can email the form and make a donation of $375 on the SWC website earmarked for NYE Pre-registration (put that in the comment field).
Mail: you can send it to us with a check by mail: Pre-registration for NYE, Southwest Conference, 917 E. Sheridan, Phoenix, AZ 85006.
If you want to make a larger donation to help cover the travel costs, rather than being scholarshipped, just add to your donation whatever you would like - with our thanks!
If you are an interested adult, you can call me (Barb) at 602-468-3830 or email me your interest. Once we begin to see what size of group we have, we'll know how many chaperones we will need.
More information is available on the NYE website.