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2 HBA Student Conference Erik Reed We Are Messengers Michael Titus Collective Worship Jeremiah Kibobi Sean McDowell Main Stage

3 Schedule Friday, March pm 5pm 5:30-6:30pm 6:30-7pm 7:30pm 10:30pm 11:45pm 12am Registration- Pritchell 1 Youth Leaders Prayer Time (RHODO 1) Dinner Counselor Training (IN Lambdin) Main Session 1 Church Group Devos In Rooms Lights Out Saturday, April 1 7-8:30am 7:30am 9-10am 10:30am 12-1:30pm 2-5pm 5:30-6:30pm 6:30-7:30pm 8pm 10:45pm 11:45pm 12am Breakfast Youth leaders prayer time (Rhodo 1) Breakout Session 1 Main Session 2 Lunch Ministry Project, Recreation/Free Time Dinner Breakout Session 2 Main Session 3 Church group Devos In rooms Lights Out Sunday, April 2 7-8:30am 8:45am-9:45am 10am 12pm Breakfast Pack up and Load Main Session 4 Departure

4 Royal Gorge Royal Gorge STEEP Royal Gorge Royal Gorge Walnut ARC Rutland Chapel Locust Poplar Sourwood To Miniature Golf, Tennis Courts, Gym, Hiking, Lake & Recreation Fields T.W. Wilson Prayer Garden Mtn. Laurel Fire Ring Outdoor Classrooms Lobby Nibble Nook Dining Room Front Desk Bus Parking Royal Gorge Fire Ring Lambdin Center Building Parking Area G Handicap Parking Only Parking Area F Parking Area E Parking Area A STEEP Service Area Only Dogwood Parking Area C Maple Woodland Green Parking Area D STEEP STEEP Rhododendron Parking Area B Johnson Spring SLOPE STEEP Spilman Auditorium & Conference Area Woodland RAMP SLOPE Trail to Rec. Area Main Entrance Guest Lodging Day Camp Public Space Staff Lodging (& covered walkways) Meeting Space Maintenance & Facilities Ivy Fire Ring Ivy Bus Parking Roads & Walkways Stairs Handicap Route Spruce C Clouds Pritchell STEEP STEEP SLOPE STEEP Mtn. Laurel East Mtn. Laurel West Service Road Only SLOPE SLOPE SLOPE A B C D E F G H SHUTTLE STOPS Pritchell/Clouds/Dogwood Pritchell/Spilman Ivy/Lambdin Mountain Laurel Royal Gorge ARC/Maple/Walnut/Woodland Johnson Spring Rhododendron/Dining Room NOTE: Text shuttle to to receive shuttle schedule. STEEP C D B A Service Area Only H G F E SLOPE Crystal Springs Amphitheater

5 Breakouts Student Options Breakout Title Collegiate Life: 101 Student Faith Panel with Jonathan Chapman and BCM Students How To Fight Indwelling Sin and Experience Maximum Joy with Erik Reed World Missions Panel with Jeremiah Kibobi, Michael Titus, and Karl Gessler No Holds Barred Student Pastor Panel Location Johnson Spring-A Johnson Spring-B Rhodo 1 Lambdin Adult Options Breakout Title Connecting Church and Home with Jason Salyer Why Modern Science has not disproven the Bible with Dr. Allen White The War for Your Worship with Brian Nulf Crisis Counseling with Heather Braddock Location Dogwood 1-A&B Dogwood 1-C Dogwood 2-A&B Dogwood 2-C&E

6 Breakouts Student Options Collegiate Life with Jonathan Chapman and Students from BCM have you ever wondered what life is going to look like after high school? Are you worried about what your faith is going to look like in college and beyond? Come to this breakout session and hear from current college students about how to thrive after high school! Located in Johnson Spring room a. How to Fight Indwelling Sin and Experience Maximum Joy with Erik Reed Sin promises joy, but it never delivers. In fact it seeks to destroy you. We know that God promises joy, but how does he bring it? Join Erik in seeking to know what joy in Christ looks like. Located in Johnson Spring Room B

7 Breakouts Student Options Waging the Good Warfare Contending for the Faith in East Africa with Karl Gesslar, Jeremiah Kibobi, and Michael Titus What does it look like sharing Jesus in East Africa as compared to America? What would it look like for you to go to East Africa and share Jesus? These questions and more will be brought up during this open discussion group with men who have courageously brought the light of the Gospel to very dark areas of the world. Located in Rhododendron 1 No Holds Barred Student Pastor Discussion Panel Got questions? Trying to overcome struggles? Wrestling with doubt? This breakout will be an open discussion between student pastors and students dealing with some tough issues facing teenagers today. Students will have the opportunity to submit questions during the session and get honest responses. Located in Lambdin.

8 Breakouts Adult Options In this breakout we will discuss the nature of truth, why the Bible is reliable, and scientific evidence that is consistent with creation and the worldwide flood. Dr. Alan White earned his BS in Chemistry from the University of Tennessee and his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Harvard University in He worked for 30 years at Eastman Chemical Company and reached the rank of Research Fellow. Alan has been granted 41 US patents and is an author on 18 scientific publications. Located in Dogwood 1-c Connecting Church and Home with Jason Salyer Parenting is not for the faint of heart! The church and home were meant to work together to accomplish a God sized goal. Join us to hear scriptural truth along with up to date research that will equip you to lead the best practices for your family at home and in the church. Located in Dogwood 1 a-b Modern Science has not Disproven the Bible with Dr. Alan White

9 Breakouts Adult Options The War for Your Worship with Brian Nulf To say that "Worship is an important part of our service to God" is an understatement; it is spiritual life or death it s war! This breakout will help to encourage you to have a battle plan to rightly contend for biblical worship in your life. Located in Dogwood 2 a-b Crisis Counseling with Heather Braddock This workshop is designed to help those working with youth to know what to do when a student is faced with a crisis. This breakout will help youth workers gain a better understanding of what to say and do when asked to intervene in a crisis situation such as suicide, self-harm, and abuse. Located in Dogwood 2 c-e

10 Ridgecrest Info Front desk dial 0 in house phones. Or Text with key words like menu, Map, Welcome, and Shuttle for more information. Pizza Order -$9 per pizza. $3 for 6-pack of soda -For Friday order from 4-7pm at registration. -For Saturday order from 9:30-11am on porch of Nibble Nook -FOr pickup go to the Nibble Nook at 9:30pm Lazer Tag -$18 per person for 1.5 hour session. -Pay in Registration on Friday from 4-7pm. If you do not pay for your reserved spot during this time it will be offered to another player.

11 Ridgecrest Info Nibble Nook Open 2-5pm and 9-11pm Nibble Nook is an old fashioned ice cream counter with over 15 flavors to choose from. You can also find a variety of snacks including: pizza, popcorn, cotton candy, drinks, chips, crackers and candy. Clouds Coffee Shop open 7:30am-11pm Stop by Ridgecrest Clouds coffee shop, where gourmet coffees, teas and fresh lattes are served. Whether your looking for a place to sit back and relax with the newspaper, or an environment to fellowship with friends, Clouds is a great place to take a break from the days activities. Roots Retail Shop Open 3-7pm, 11-5pm

12 Conference Info Youth Leader prayer time- This will be a time of prayer and encouragement from the Word for youth leaders. Held in Rhodo 1 at 5pm on Friday and 7:30am on Saturday Youth Leader Loungelocated in Ivy Room 1. Coffee, snacks, no students :) Child Care available in Ivy Room 4 Free Time options on Saturday 1. Backpack ministry project- Located in Rhodo-1 from 2-5pm. Text hbamissions to for more info. 2. Arc gym open for basketball 3. Rec gym open for dodgeball (located near mini golf and rec fields) 4. Rec area open for Mini golf ($4 p/p) 5. Rec Fields open (football, sand volleyball, disc golf) 6. Hiking Trails 7. Lazer Tag (must pre-register or check at registration for open slots). $18 per person Lost and found- located at front desk and will have a box at the end of the weekend at stage of spilman.

13 Conference Info If you lose your wristband there will be extras available at the HBA merchandise table available for $2. Extra HBA Student Conference t-shirts are available for $10 at our booth in Spilman. HBA Student Conference Hoodies are available for $20 at our booth in Spilman Upload your conference videos and photos with #hbasc17 and also be sure to like us on Additional info as well as a pdf version of this booklet can be found at hbastudents.com any questions or comments to hbastudentministries@gmail.com Check out our videos and sessions on our Holston Baptist youtube channel

14 Missions Offering This year our missions Offering will be going to 4 areas: 1. GenSend- a ministry of the North American Mission Board that provides urban mission opportunities for students. We are partnering with them to reach the city of Cincinnati. 2. A.R.M.- Appalachian Regional Ministry. Mobilizes churches in 12 Appalachian states in providing ministries to the poor, evangelizing the lost, and planting churches. 3. Michael Titus/J-LIfe INternational a church planter and disciple-maker through J-Life international in Tanzania. 4. Magnet School- a primary school in Ongata Rongai, Kenya that provides education, food, clothing, housing, and Gospel teaching to over 380 impoverished, orphaned, and at-risk children from age 3-18.

15 Ministry Project Backpack A Backpack filled with a Personalized Bible, Wool Socks, Candy, Q-Tips, Lotion, Facial Wipes, Chapstick, and a Headlamp w/batteries Johnson City and Cincinnati The Backpacks will be distributed equally between Johnson City, TN and Cincinnati, OH. Our Goal 300 Backpacks! Why? To share Christ in both Truth and Love! 2017 HBA Student Conference Mission Project Please begin to collect the above items and pray for the men and women that will receive these Backpacks. Stay tuned for more information on our social media outlets. To join the movement text hbamissions to For more information contact Stephen Fisher or Halston Brooks

16 Church Group Devos Friday NIght Warm up Group Questions These are Questions from Sean s Atheist Encounter. These are just suggestions to get the conversation started. 1. On a scale of 1-10, how prepared were you to defend your faith? 2. Do you know any atheists/agnostics/skeptics? What did you learn from this interaction that could help you minister to them? 3. What were the most difficult challenges that Sean raised? 4. What is the biggest lesson you learned tonight? Sean s Atheist Encounter may have felt like a fight that your students weren t prepared for, so our aim this weekend now is to help your students be prepared to contend for the faith. To do this we are going to go through the book of Jude. Bible Study- Have a student Read Jude 1:1-3 Intro: The word translated contend, when verbalized, sounds like our word agonizing. It possesses the idea of athletes who, in an effort to win, find themselves intensely struggling, competing, even fighting with all their might. I Think of a boxer going 12 rounds in the ring. What does it take for a boxer to be able to contend for that long and come out victorious? (let students answer). It takes 1) The call to fight 2) Knowing your opponent 3) Training for Endurance 4) Confidence in victory The small letter of Jude is set up around this call to contend for the faith. Just like a boxer being called to a match, Christians are called to contend for the faith. In order to do that we too must know our opponent, train for endurance, and be confident of victory.

17 Church Group Devos Friday NIght I. The call to contend (v. 3) 1) Notice that Jude wrote out of necessity. It is easier to talk about the elementary teachings of the faith, but Jude appeals for all of us to contend, agonize, for the faith. All Christians are called to not only know the faith, but also contend for it and be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is within you (1 peter 3:15). It is not just for people like Sean McDowell or your pastor to know and defend the faith, we are all called to it. before we can contend for the faith, we must know what the Christian faith is. How would you describe the Faith? (allow response time) The Christian Faith is the Gospel of Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 gives a very clear definition of the Gospel, the Good News, of Jesus. (Read 1 Cor. 15:1-8). The Gospel is centered on the Person and saving work of Jesus Christ- His birth, life, death, resurrection, ascension, and coming Return. 2) Notice that Jude makes it clear that the faith was once for all given to us. What does he mean by that? [I]n Jude, the Christian faith is already in existence as a settled and final body of saving truths. -Dick Lucas We are not free to change it, as if the faith were somehow still evolving and making its way in the world. According to Jude, the faith is not only full, but it already exists in final form. It is not subject to change! (D.R. Helm) Knowing that the faith is once for all and settled, do you see people today trying to change what the Christian faith is all about?

18 Church Group Devos Friday NIght II. Know Your opponent (v. 4-16) 1) Jude charges these people with two serious sins. (v. 4) -The first is that they have used the grace of God as a license to sin. -The second is that they deny the Lord Jesus- they deny either the humanity of Jesus (that He is 100% man) or they deny the divinity of Jesus (that He is 100% God). (See 1 John 4:1-3) 2) Jude uses 3 examples from the Old Testament that should persuade us that God takes sin very seriously. (v. 5-7) a.) The Disobedient Israelites of the wilderness generation (v. 7) b.) The disobedient angels who rebelled against God (v. 6) c.) The wicked men of Sodom and Gomorrah (v. 7) 3) Read verses 8-16 Ask the student to list all the characteristics they see in the verses 8-16 of the false teachers/false believers. Final group questions: 1. Do you think it is harder to have faith in our days than at other times in history? 2. What challenges to faith particularly characterize our own times? 3. What challenges do you have in believing and proclaiming the faith?

19 Church Group Devos Saturday NIght Warm Up Questions: 1. What is the most important thing you took away from today s breakout sessions? 2. What is the most important thing you took away from today s main sessions? III. Training for Endurance (Jude 1:17-22) Intro The reality of the Christian life is that it is hard. Attacks will come at you, left hooks coming out of nowhere that will often leave you dazed on the mat. So how are we to keep going in the midst of such conflict and hardship? As we finish up Jude together, let us see how he ends his letter to these Christians that he has charged to, contend for the faith. There are a few things you need to do in order to train yourself for endurance, to keep going with the fight is hard: 1. Recognize the reality of false teachers, scoffers, and false believers. (Jude 1:17-19). -What is a scoffer? (see Proverbs 21:24) 2. Build yourselves up in the Faith (Jude 1:20). The yourselves here is plural. In other words he is telling us to build each other up in the faith. The Christian life is one that is to be ran together, not alone. -What are some ways we can build one another up in the faith?

20 Church Group Devos Saturday NIght 3. Pray in the Holy Spirit (Jude 1:20) -Prayer that is in accordance with the Word of God, then stimulated, guided and infused by the Holy Spirit (see also Romans 8:26-27, Ephesians 6:18). 4. Keep yourselves in the love of God -How do you know the love of God? BY the Word of God. 5. Waiting for the mercy of Christ that leads to eternal life. -this is expectantly anticipating and living in light of Christ s return and promise of eternal life. 6. Live mercifully toward all -how are we to treat those who are being affected by doubt or under the influence of false teachers? We must bear ourselves toward them with both a tremblingg pity and an abhorrence of their impurities. (Mark Dever) IV. Confidence in Victory (Jude 1:1-2, 24-25) The final thing a boxer needs to contend and be victorious is confidence in victory. Where do we get our confidence? Jude gives us a few final words that should lead us to have confidence in God s ultimate victory through Christ. See the identity that he gives to the believers at the beginning of the letter. To those who are: 1. Called - God called us to be His children not based on anything we have done, but according to His love and mercy. (see Romans 1:6, 8:28; Galatians 1:6, Ephesians 4:1, 1 Cor. 1:2) We are called by the Spirit of God- this is our past.

21 Church Group Devos Saturday NIght 2. Beloved in God the Father - This love is eternal He loved us from before the foundation of the world, loves us now, and His love will endure forever. The love of the Father is our past, present, and future. 3. Kept for/by Christ Jesus - Christ gives us the strength to keep going especially when the days are hard and the fight is beyond what we can handle. (See John 6:37-40, 17:11-12; Philippians 1:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; 1 Peter 1:3-5, 1 John 5:18). This is our present and future. Despite our failures and sins, we will be presented in His glorious presence without fault and with great joy. In other words, he is powerful not just to keep but also to cleanse. In the presence of God, Adam hid, Isaiah fell to the ground and confessed his uncleanness, and Job repented in dust and ashes. In that presence, we will be presented without fault and with great rejoicing. (Mark Dever) Last few questions 1. How would you describe the life of faith from Jude? 2. Do those descriptions mark your life?

22 Church Group Devos Saturday NIght 2. Beloved in God the Father - This love is eternal He loved us from before the foundation of the world, loves us now, and His love will endure forever. The love of the Father is our past, present, and future. 3. Kept for/by Christ Jesus - Christ gives us the strength to keep going especially when the days are hard and the fight is beyond what we can handle. (See John 6:37-40, 17:11-12; Philippians 1:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; 1 Peter 1:3-5, 1 John 5:18). This is our present and future. Despite our failures and sins, we will be presented in His glorious presence without fault and with great joy. In other words, he is powerful not just to keep but also to cleanse. In the presence of God, Adam hid, Isaiah fell to the ground and confessed his uncleanness, and Job repented in dust and ashes. In that presence, we will be presented without fault and with great rejoicing. (Mark Dever) Last few questions 1. How would you describe the life of faith from Jude? 2. Do those descriptions mark your life?

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