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Welcome
Since 1998, BBC’s Growing Leaders has provided leadership development opportunities to student leaders and their advisors through dynamic keynote speakers and practical, focused workshops. This year we will continue to serve your leadership team by providing some of the most exciting speakers you’ve ever experienced and interactive workshops that will help guide and enhance your leadership development. As a guest you will be provided with six meals and overnight accommodations with our own student leaders. And don’t forget the chance to attend some of our renowned college classes and experience the vibrant social scene and up tempo college life of BBC. Whether you’re a student, an advisor, or a youth pastor, God wants to use you to have an impact on the world around you. Please join us November 12-14 for an incredible leadership experience you’ll never forget- BBC’s Growing Leaders 2009! Advisors & Youth Leaders
While we would love to house everyone on campus, we simply cannot provide housing for any adult leaders. The students will stay in the dorms with some of our top student leaders, while all adults must find off campus accommodations.
Students
BBC’s Growing Leaders will not only provide you with resources and training needed to help you identify and develop your leadership abilities, but will provide the opportunity for you to visualize how to implement those abilities. God has given you and your generation amazing potential and vision for the future; we want to help you release that potential, project your vision, and apply it in a way that is consistent with your world and God’s incredible purpose for your life. Think of the possibilities; dream of the results!
This conference will help to:
• IGNITE YOUR IMAGINATION! You will begin to see and realize the awesome power of God and His plan for you. As you do this, you will begin to imagine like God has imagined.
• INSPIRE YOUR COMMITMENT! God is going to do extraordinary things with or without you. He wants to use you, but you must be willing to accept the challenge.
• STIMULATE YOUR CHARACTER! As you see like God sees and choose to be a part of His vision, you will desire to become more like Christ and to grow into the man or woman that God would have you to be.
• ENHANCE YOUR SKILLS! As you utilize your imagination, commit yourself, and solidify your character, you will begin to understand how your skills, talents, and abilities fit into God’s ultimate plan.
• AMPLIFY YOUR EFFECT! You will return home knowing where and how you can plug in your newly sharpened leadership abilities. By following Christ and applying yourself, you can have an explosive influence that impacts your world. Cost & Registration
Click here for the downloadable Registration Form.
The cost is only $100.00 per student; $75.00 per adult.
Early Bird Discount! Want FREE GAS?! If you bring ten or more students, your group will receive a $100.00 gas card! Conference Theme & Schedule
Have you ever felt like you or your leadership team was stuck in rut? Did you ever have an idea that was so unconventional that you felt like you could never pull it off? Maybe you found yourself playing like a broken record—event after event, year after year you just keep going around and around—producing no dynamic results, just the same old static sound. Perhaps feeling trapped, some leaders are simply unwilling to look back, learn, and be inspired from the past—they would rather just charge ahead; while others are content to sit in their cookie-cutter, time-tested, over worn programs and not forge ahead to create something new and exhilarating for the upcoming generation. This is devastatingly stifling for all involved, regardless of whether you are bashing your progressive head against a brick wall or are caught in the muck and mire of stagnation.
There are many reasons why people feel stifled and do not embrace their full leadership potential: fear of the unexplored, apathy, disillusionment from past failures, an unwillingness to take risks, a lack of confidence in themselves and their God-given abilities, and even a lack of understanding in who they are and where they fit into God’s ultimate plan. Whatever the reason, the results are the same—the number of leaders in our churches and schools is dwindling.
You have a choice to make—a chance to create today what the future will be. But you must set aside your fear, crush your apathy, risk it all, look to God, and then take the plunge. Are you ready? Maybe the bigger question is, “Are you willing?”
2009 Tentative Schedule
Thursday, November 6 3:00 p.m. Registration
7:00 a.m. Breakfast Saturday, November 8 7:45 a.m. Breakfast Contact Information
Thank you for your interest in BBC's Growing Leaders Conference.
For more information, please contact Jonathan Stayer by phone (570.585.9311) or email (growingleaders@bbc.edu).
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BBC’s Growing Leaders Conference is a three day leadership intensive designed to assist students in identifying and developing their gifts, talents, skills, and leadership abilities. High school students along with their advisors and youth pastors will be challenged and motivated to impact their fellow students and their schools for Jesus Christ. 
As a student leadership advisor or youth pastor you are serving as the bridge between the past and the future for your students. You hold the keys that will open the door and lead your students from the over used, well-worn room of the past to the unseen, untouched, and yet-to-be ventured room of future possibilities. Whether you consider yourself a traditional conservative or a progressive radical, you are an intricate part of the development process that God has planned for each of your students. We believe that your presence and involvement in this process is both invigorating and necessary; that’s why we are inviting you to come with your students and experience the conference and all it has to offer. Your personal knowledge of each student in your team will allow you to customize the conference to your group and to your individual members. During the conference, you will have the chance to facilitate group discussions as well as evaluate both individual and team growth. This is an incredible opportunity for you to lead your team and inspire them to respect the past and create the future.
At Baptist Bible College we are committed to giving our students an excellent biblical education and training them to be effective as ministry leaders. These leaders can be found across our nation as well as around the world, serving God with the gifts and abilities that He has blessed them with. 
"Respect the Past, Create the Future"