teens

Winterfest 2024  |  Feb. 16-18

Money and Registration due Jan. 28th.

COST
Hotel cost of $140 per night for 2 nights for 2 Queen beds.
They will need money for food 6 meals. These meals are mostly fast food during the weekend.

TRANSPORTATION
This year we will be carpooling if needed to transport us to Gatlinburg, TN.

TRAVEL INFO
Be at Louisville Church on Friday Feb. 16th. by 6:30am
(Please don't be late)
We will be returning on Feb. 18th roughly 10:30pm. depending on traffic.
(We will keep you posted the day of, on a real time ETA.)  

WHAT TO BRING
Bible
Open heart for God to Challenge you!
Toiletries
Warm Clothes (Check the weather)
Money for meals and souvenirs
Comfortable, warm walking shoes - we walk A LOT, outside

DO NOT BRING
Weapons
Drugs, Alcohol or Tobacco
Expensive Electronics
(Louisville Church is not responsible for anything that gets stolen or lost)
A bad attitude

HOTEL
The Gillette
235 Historic Nature Trl, Gatlinburg, TN 37738-3323
This is directly across the street from the convention center.

 You can visit  www.winterfest.org for a conference schedule.

Winterfest is a weekend retreat going on for 37 years now. This retreat is geared toward middle and high school teens. This particular Winterfest is attended primarily by teens from acappella churches of Christ, although we have groups from several different fellowships that come back each year. We use teachers from our fellowship to teach and encourage teens in their walk with God. This weekend is geared toward discipleship. The teachers and guests that come use real life stories, drama, music and scripture to make the Christian life come alive to the teens involved. Our acappella praise and worship times are uplifting and engaging. We have contemporary Christian concerts at our events that are supplemental to the weekend (we have had Jars of Clay, Third Day, Newsboys, Audio A, Supertones, Tait, to name a few). Believing that the Christian life can be very joyful, we bring in the best Christian entertainers we can find to challenge teens with their lifestyle and their attitudes (we have had Bob Stromberg, One Time Blind, Paul & Nicole, Ted & Lee, Tom Tufts, CPR, Dr. Comedy, Taylor Mason, Lost & Found, Bob Smiley, Curt Cloninger, The Skit Guys, Brad Montague, 3-2-1, UnBound, Hoss Ridgeway, Bean & Bailey, to name a few). God bless you as you work with teens. The Winterfest Folks. 

We value student's relationships within the small group setting of a classroom. As families commit to attending  service every week, students can relate to their leader and other familiar faces in their group where relationships can form and grow.

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