Registration Opens September 1st, 2025
Southside Church
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Keynote Speaker
AJ Crocker has a deep passion for seeing youth and young adults be shaped by the Bible. He grew up in a pastor’s family and after spending some time in Toronto and Vancouver, he settled down in Caronport, Saskatchewan. For 17 years he has lead things like Youth Quake, a youth conference for 1600 high school students, Christian high school chapel programs and marketing departments. Over these years AJ has travelled Canada extensively as a youth speaker and has four video teaching series on Right Now Media available here. AJ’s wife Cheryl is a high school teacher at Briercrest Christian Academy teaching leadership, art and English. They have 3 great kids who are very active in dance, hockey and soccer. AJ spent his college years working at Foot Locker and is a sneakerhead to this day. He skateboards to work and is a long-suffering fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Passage: Matthew 25:14-30
How do we pursue Godly relationships with other believers? God has given you so much to share with your friends and family. Understanding and using what God has given us is a key to pursuing Godly relationships.
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Passage: Matthew 5:13-16
Whether we want it to or not, the way we live communicates certain things to the people around us. Followers of Jesus are called to live in a way that reflects their heavenly Faither. This makes us different than the world and adjusts how we approach relationships.
Student Presenter Workshops
At our Student Leadership Conferences, high school students create and present workshops to their peers, guided by mentor teachers. This experience fosters leadership skills and allows students to make a meaningful impact. We look forward to the innovative presentations prepared for this year's conference.
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This workshop supports students to start each day with purpose and faith, inviting God into their morning routines. By diving into the scriptures and my personal experience, I and the student will discover practical steps in "rising" with gratitude and "shining" with God's love.
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This Workshop will cover the overlap between science and religion, examining the scientific proof of biblical truth. It will range from the makeup of DNA, to the creation theory, to theological evolution. As well, It will involve true stories of atheist scientists aiming to prove God wrong, and becoming Christians in the process.
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We want to lead a workshop where we share our personal journeys of finding our identity in Jesus rather than in performance, grades, or friendships. We'll also open up about how surrendering our post-high school plans to God has brought us greater peace, trusting that His plans are better than our own. We also want to include fun, engaging activities after.
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Our workshop’s goal is to answer questions about Christianity and to spark discipleship groups. We will explore the evidence for God, Jesus and his resurrection, and how to explain the Gospel as disciples. Then, we will introduce the concept of discipleship groups, which help members grow in their faith together. Students will write down what they learned and receive an exit slip with resources.
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We live in a world that tells us to do whatever we can to fill our cups. Workout more to look better, wear better clothes to become more popular. Yet, as Christians, we are called to live radically transformed by the gospel. We will talk about what it looks like to fully dive into the pool of faith, living like Christ, for Christ.
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Our workshop focuses on teaching young Christians how to live like Jesus Christ in modern, everyday life. We will explore the life of Jesus as a model for what Christians should strive to be and offer ways to apply these studies practically. We hope that through this workshop, people will reflect on their daily lives and identify what can be changed in order to better reflect the image of Jesus.
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My workshop will aim to help participants navigate political conversations, conflict, and unity through the lens of Christian faith and relationships. The goal will try to focus on the overall theme "stronger together" while discussing how we as Christians can show love to one another in the divided world that we live in. We should know how to stay rooted in love and truth during disagreement.
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In this workshop I want to bring forward some of the common worries and obstacles that Christian teenagers face in our world today and then bring to light what God tells us about it. I want to present advice from the bible and dive into how we teenagers should live according to God's will. Bringing the bible into every answer that I give would be a key aspect of my workshop.
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This workshop is to understand our relationship with ourself and what we put our self worth and value in.
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In our workshop, we aim to teach how to know God's voice in our noisy world. We will explain how to make space to hear Him, how prayer is a conversation (not a monologue), and how to clarify what He is saying. We know that is can be hard to distinguish between the Holy Spirit and the voice in our heads sometimes, and our goal is to teach practical ways to tune in to His voice and obey.
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This workshop will teach students how to lead by example in a lonely world, and will teach how God moves through unity. We will look at how to be a light of Christ in a secular world that tells you to be something different, how to unify ourselves with other believers to help others experience the power of God, and how to exemplify Jesus' grace and forgiveness in tricky relationships.
Opens: September 1, 2025
Deadline: October 14, 2025
Contact
ACSI Western Canada Office
Phone: 403.948.2332
Email: acsiwc_info@acsi.org
