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Ministry is not meant to be done alone. What you do can cause a ripple effect to those around you.
Our annual Youth Leadership Convention invites youth ministry leaders of all kinds to grow in leadership through engaging sessions and breakouts taught by professionals of their fields. More information about 2024’s Convention coming later.
September
We know being a leader isn’t always easy. You don’t have to do it alone. Join hundreds of other Adventist youth ministry leaders like you for a two-day event as we learn to lead, minister, and mentor.
Pastor Manny serves as the founding and lead pastor at Kalēo Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern California Conference. A graduate of La Sierra University, Pastor Manny is currently working on a doctorate in Urban Ministry from Fuller Seminary. He and his wife Keren are the proud parents of three children.
2260 Griffin Way, Corona, CA 92879
(951) 734-2140
*$110/night, special rate if you book a reservation under “SECC Youth Sept 2023″
*Discount ends August 18. Check-in begins Friday, September 8 and check-out begins Saturday, September 9. Only 12 rooms are available at the special rate for this event. Reservations can only be made via phone. Mention “SECC Youth”
Aren Rennacker serves as Youth Director for the Southeastern California Conference. Before that he served as youth and young adult pastor at two churches in Southern California. Aren graduated from PUC in 2011 with his Bachelors in PR/Journalism, and completed his Masters in Theological Studies from La Sierra University in 2017. Aren’s passion is to empower both youth and youth leaders to experience the Gospel in new and relevant ways. Aside from ministry, Aren also enjoys basketball, a good story, and a fresh bowl of oatmeal. He married his lovely wife Paige in 2020.
Meshach Soli was born and raised in Southern California and currently resides in sunny San Diego. He has a powerful testimony of God’s saving grace transforming his life of destruction into a life of love and service for the building of God’s Kingdom. He has served as a pastor in the SECC for over 12 years and leads our conference Club Ministries. Pastor Meshach enjoys paddle boarding, low riders, traveling, and trying new international eats. As passionate as he is about these things and ministry his greatest call and love is being the father to his five sons and a husband to his High School sweetheart Linda Soli.
We know being a leader isn’t always easy. You don’t have to do it alone. Join hundreds of other Adventist youth ministry leaders like you for a two-day event as we learn to lead, minister, and mentor.
Pastor Manny serves as the founding and lead pastor at Kalēo Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern California Conference. A graduate of La Sierra University, Pastor Manny is currently working on a doctorate in Urban Ministry from Fuller Seminary. He and his wife Keren are the proud parents of three children.
Sebastian Lafo is a spoken word artist from Compton, CA. He has been writing poetry for ten years and performing since 2017. He holds a Bachelors in Behavioral Science and is currently studying to receive his Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Loma Linda University. Sebastian will be sharing his spoken word piece “Polynesian Men.”
Our conference Youth Ministries is one representation of God’s movement within our territory. Learn more about what we are doing in youth ministries through our annual report.
Browse through a list of available breakout sessions taught by ministry professionals in their fields.
President of Posture Shift Ministries, Inc. Bill is North America’s leading consultant for churches and ministry leaders on becoming loving caretakers for LGBT+ youth and their families. He has partnered with the North American Division to deliver a helpful and valuable resource: “Adventist Edition: Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones.” Through his ministry, Bill shares his passion for loving all people unconditionally and reaching them for Jesus. It is out of that same passion we hold as youth leaders that we hope to learn how we can best serve and care for each family and child in the SECC and beyond.
September 17-19
Pine Springs Ranch
