North America
Gospel Advancing Summit
- April 24 - 27, 2024
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA
The Gospel Advancing Summit is an invitation-only gathering of Gospel Advancing leaders.
At this 3-day conference, we’ll build momentum for the Gospel Advancing movement through collaboration and community. Youth leaders from across North America come together with new and fresh ideas and participate in general sessions and breakout groups where they learn best practices from fellow leaders and how to accelerate the Gospel Advancing movement. Leaders leave refreshed and resolved to see every teen, everywhere, reached with the Gospel.
GA summit 2024
event highlights
Interested in being a part of events like the Gospel Advancing Summit?
Yes? Let us know!
Registration is now closed for the 2024 North America Gospel Advancing Summit.
If you’re interested in hearing more about future events like this, complete the form below and we’ll keep you in the loop.
2024 event details
- April 24 - 27, 2024
- Acts2 Network, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Registration options
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HOME STAY ($200/person)
stay in the home of an Acts2 Network member with up to 4 leaders attending the Summit. -
HOTEL STAY ($350/person)
stay in a hotel room near the event venue. Double occupancy with up to two leaders attending the Summit.
Registration includes
- Room and board
- Round trip transportation (airport to event)
- Session training materials
Speakers & worship
Greg
stier
Jerrod
Gunter
Jurie
Kriel
Kris
stout
Dave
Gibson
Polen Band
event schedule
Wednesday, April 24: Arrive anytime
Thursday, April 25: Event 9am – 9pm
Friday, April 26: Event 9am – 9pm
Saturday, April 27: Event 9am – 1pm
Optional Afternoon Activity: Go Share Day
breakout sessions
REQUIRED FOR ALL FIRST-YEAR ATTENDEES.
Join Dare 2 Share founder Greg Stier as he walks through the Gospel Advancing philosophy. Understanding the 1 Vision, 7 Values, and 5 Truths will help you grow as a leader and refocus your efforts, as you strive to reach every teen in your community with the Gospel.
Facilitator: Greg Stier
REQUIRED FOR ALL N.A. SUMMIT ALUMNI.
Networking with other leaders can be difficult, so it often gets pushed to the bottom of the list of ministry demands. This session will inspire you to bump it to the top, and equip you with practical tips and tools to confidently take the next steps toward an effective GA network—whether you’re brand-new to networking or a seasoned veteran.
Facilitator: Ben Phillips
When you pair the power of the Gospel with the potential of teens, incredible things happen. Learn the “whys”—and four essential “hows”—of mobilizing students to live out their faith.
Facilitator: Doug Henry
Make the most of this youth group power tool, as you explore how it can help you with training, discipleship, evangelism, event management, tracking, and more. Plus, get the first glimpse of brand-new, exciting features that are coming soon to help you and your students thrive in Gospel Advancing.
Facilitator: Carrie Evans
Culture-change in your youth group starts when you fully embrace and model Gospel Advancing. In this breakout, you’ll develop an individualized plan for prayer, relational evangelism, and making disciples that fits your personal style and will influence your whole group.
Facilitator: Brian Baldwin
Gospel Advancing ministries define success by not just people in seats and dollars in budgets, but by biblical outcomes seen in the lives of individual students and the ministry as a whole. This session maps out how you can structure your ministry for God-honoring success and then track your progress toward your goals.
Facilitator: Carrie Evans
As with any expedition, the Gospel Advancing journey is much easier with a guide. In this session, you’ll identify which Gospel Advancing stage you’re in and learn how to advance to the next level. Whether you’re stuck or thriving, you’ll leave with practical growth steps and learn how you can continue to fuel the GA movement locally and globally.
Facilitator: Pauline Ebert
The founder of Calibrate Ministries, Brady Cone, will illustrate how Jesus engaged tough topics in truth and love, and then teach you to do the same. You’ll learn how to navigate conversations that arise in your own life, as well as equip your students for the constant conversation happening around them.
Facilitators: Brady Cone & Kellee Katagi
There are many clubs and campus-ministry models designed for Christian students to create community and grow. The best ones also pursue opportunities for students to “break the huddle” and engage their campus with the Gospel. Come discover practical ways to empower your students to do more for the Gospel in their schools.
Facilitators: Keith Seymour & Travis Deans
Did you know that God has goals He’s working to accomplish? Get to this session to learn how to set goals that are God-honoring, Radical, Exact, Achievable, and Time-sensitive—goals that keep you focused on your bold vision and motivated to strive toward its fulfillment.
Facilitator: Mr. Bill
In Ephesians 4, we see the purpose Jesus gave leaders in the church: to build up the Body of Christ for the work of the ministry. The students in your ministry need opportunities to grow, to learn what it looks like to lead, and to set the pace of Gospel Advancing for their peers. This session examines five key areas to consider as you develop a student leadership team.
Facilitator: Eric Groezinger
To increase your staying power for faithful ministry, you need spiritual, physical, mental, and relational vitality. In this session, you’ll learn how Jesus’s example can help you build it, and then leave with practical steps to help you follow through.
Facilitator: Carrie Evans
More than 80% of U.S. teens live in urban settings, which means ministries in these areas are on the front lines of the battle for young people’s souls. Join Riotstarter founder Jerrod Gunter for insights into the ever-changing urban youth culture and how ministry to and through these students can set the pace for Gospel impact.
Facilitator: Jerrod Gunter
FAQs
There will not be a Gospel Advancing Summit in 2025 as we focus on expansion efforts and on supporting and growing the Gospel Advancing movement.
If you’d like to hear more about future events like this, complete the form above on this page and we’ll keep you in the loop.
It is our hope that this time together is a true “summit.” This event is not just about equipping Gospel Advancing leaders to multiply the movement, but also collaborating, learning from one another and building a community that can accelerate the Gospel Advancing movement in North America and around the world.
If your heart beats to see teens across this nation reached and mobilized with the Gospel, we need you there! Prayer and collaboration with leaders like YOU will give the Gospel Advancing movement the best shot at multiplying.
- April 24 – 27, 2024
- Program begins Thursday morning April 25 and goes through mid-day Saturday April 27, 2024
- Acts2 Network, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Registration for the Gospel Advancing Summit event is non-refundable.
Participants should plan to stay through the entire event.
any questions?
- 303-565-2545
- gospeladvancing@dare2share.org
