
What is Leadership Conference?
Our heart and desire is to bring together ministry leadership teams from around the country for a focussed time of development as a team. While everyone who attends will grow as an individual leader, the greatest strength for your youth ministry comes as your entire leadership team develops together. Our conference is designed to help your team grow in unity, be encouraged in vision and equipped with practical skills to increase your effectiveness in ministry. Join, learn from and be encouraged by other teams as they also seek to develop their leadership skills.
The day of conference is filled with sessions, fellowship and lots of opportunities to discuss and apply what you're learning directly to your ministry context. We would love to see your team at Leadership Conference 2025: FOLLOW THE LEADER
FOLLOW THE LEADER: LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 2025
As leaders, what example are we setting for our young people? Are we embracing a lifestyle that advances the Gospel?Leadership Conference 2025 is all about taking time as a leadership team to look at how we are modelling what we want to see in our young people. The conference will dive into what the bible says about how we can lead by example and then break down the impact it could have if our leadership teams embrace this. Elective sessions will look at how we practically apply what we are learning and discussion times will help each group to contextualise all they've heard during the day.
This year we have two key locations in Cambridge and Christchurch where our keynote speakers will be based and we will also be running watch parties in different locations up and down the country. We will have Word of Life team members at all watch parties and we are excited to learn and grow as youth ministries across New Zealand!
DETAILS
SATURDAY MARCH 1
10am-3:30pm
LOCATIONS:
Cambridge
Raleigh Street Christian Centre
Christchurch
Bryndwr Chapel
We are hosting Watch Parties in the following locations:
Whangarei
North Shore
Nelson
COST:
$20 per person
(includes lunch and refreshments)
Half price for developing leaders (Year 12-13)
OUR 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

SEAN YOUNG
CHRISTCHURCH
Sean Young is the Chairman of the Word of Life NZ Board and former Youth Pastor at Grace Church Richmond. His experience in both professional and volunteer ministry brings a broad perspective to our first session: "Becoming a Leader Who Leads by Example".

MURRAY BROWN
CAMBRIDGE
Murray Brown is the founder of Youth Train and was the National Youth Enabler for CCCNZ for six years. He has over forty years experience in youth ministry which brings a wealth of knowledge to our second session: "Practical Applications of a Fully Bought in Leadership Team".
Enquiry Form
If you are interested in a watch party, have questions about how they work or have any general questions about Leadership Conference let us know below and we'll be in touch with you soon.