← Leading the Way 2026

Breakout Sessions

Browse the full lineup of breakouts students can choose from.

Thursday, June 4

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM · Breakout #1

Bridget's Cradles Service Project

Bridget's Cradles Service Project

Just up the road in Kechi, Kansas, in a little blue barn, an extraordinary ministry is at work — and they could use your help. Bridget's Cra...

📍 KidzUnlimited Room 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 🎬 Video
View details
Dating and Relationships

Dating and Relationships

Heather Teis, Josh Teis

Dating in high school is one of the most exciting — and confusing — things you'll do. How do you know if someone's actually worth pursuing?...

📍 Adventure Avenue Theatre 9th 10th 11th 12th
View details
Homework Ninja: Real Strategies that will Help You Be a Next Level Student

Homework Ninja: Real Strategies that will Help You Be a Next Level Student

Keegan Hallmark

Let's be honest — nobody hands you a guide for how to actually do school well. You're expected to figure it out as you go, somewhere between...

📍 North Commons
View details
How to Get Serious About Studying Your Bible with Mary Alice Hoover

How to Get Serious About Studying Your Bible with Mary Alice Hoover

Mary Alice Hoover

Most of us own a Bible. Most of us have tried to read it. And most of us have closed it ten minutes later wondering what we just read — and...

📍 North Auditorium
View details
Offline and On Track... Finding Fun Without a Screen

Offline and On Track... Finding Fun Without a Screen

Daniel Mahannah

Quick experiment: think about what you did for fun the last time you were genuinely bored. If the honest answer is "I picked up my phone," w...

📍 Studio 45
View details
Worship Jam

Worship Jam

Austin Renfroe, Juli Kubish

There's something powerful about a room full of teenagers singing to Jesus at the top of their lungs. Worship Jam is exactly that — an infor...

📍 Student Auditorium
View details

Thursday, June 4

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM · Breakout #2

Bridget's Cradles Service Project

Bridget's Cradles Service Project

Just up the road in Kechi, Kansas, in a little blue barn, an extraordinary ministry is at work — and they could use your help. Bridget's Cra...

📍 KidzUnlimited Room 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 🎬 Video
View details
How to Listen Like a Pro

How to Listen Like a Pro

Jonathan Hoover

Everyone talks about communication. Almost nobody talks about the half of communication that actually changes things — listening. The truth...

📍 North Commons
View details
Make a Missionary's Day!

Make a Missionary's Day!

Missionaries pour their lives into sharing the gospel in places most of us will never visit, and they faithfully send prayer letters back ho...

📍 Adventure Avenue Theatre
View details
Share This: A step-by-step guide to sharing your faith with others

Share This: A step-by-step guide to sharing your faith with others

Eddie Silcock

Let's be real — sharing your faith is one of those things every Christian knows we're supposed to do, and almost nobody actually feels ready...

📍 Student Auditorium
View details
What do You Want from Me, God? A session about finding your true calling.

What do You Want from Me, God? A session about finding your true calling.

Brian O'Neal

It's one of the biggest questions you'll ever ask — and one of the hardest to get a straight answer on. What does God actually want from my...

📍 Studio 45
View details
Your Brain Owner's Manual: Five things you might not have known about how your brain works

Your Brain Owner's Manual: Five things you might not have known about how your brain works

Anna Ord

Your brain runs your life — but no one ever handed you the manual. In this session, Dr. Anna Ord pulls back the curtain on five surprising r...

📍 North Auditorium
View details

Friday, June 5

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM · Breakout #3

Friday, June 5

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM · Breakout #4

5 Habits of Psychologically Healthy People

5 Habits of Psychologically Healthy People

Jonathan Hoover

Anxiety is up. Depression is up. Loneliness is up. Whatever generation you're part of, you've probably noticed that mental health is one of...

📍 Student Auditorium
View details
How to Make and Keep Good Friends

How to Make and Keep Good Friends

Keegan Hallmark

Friendship sounds like one of those things that should just happen. You hang out, you click, and somehow people end up in your life. But if...

📍 North Commons 6th 7th
View details
Teach Us How to Pray: What Jesus said about how to talk to God

Teach Us How to Pray: What Jesus said about how to talk to God

Kody Page

Prayer is one of those things every Christian knows we should do more of — and one of the things most of us secretly feel pretty unsure abou...

📍 Adventure Avenue Theatre
View details
Using Your Creativity for God

Using Your Creativity for God

Dale Poore, TJ Nix, Austin Renfroe, Tiffany Nix, DJ Mahannah

If you've ever been told that being creative is "nice" but not particularly useful — that art and design and writing and storytelling are fi...

📍 South Auditorium
View details
What it Means to be a Man of God

What it Means to be a Man of God

Dan Kubish

Culture has a lot to say about what it means to be a man right now — and most of it pulls in opposite directions. Be tough. Be sensitive. Be...

📍 Studio 45 9th 10th 11th 12th
View details
What it Means to be a Woman of God

What it Means to be a Woman of God

Debbie Kubish

Culture has a lot to say about what it means to be a woman right now — and most of it pulls in opposite directions. Be confident. Be humble....

📍 North Auditorium 9th 10th 11th 12th
View details