Past Retreat ReCaPs
Spark Change February 2024
Lake Hughes, CA
FEbruary 21 - 23, 2024
Speaker To Be Announced
MC and Artist To Be Announced
February 28 - March 2, 2024
Speaker To Be Announced
‘When Thunder Speaks’ Brandon Allen - MC and Spoke Word
$120/Person! ($195-250 Value)
REgistration is Set at 325 Max. Per Weekend
Pricing includes meals from Breakfast Saturday to Lunch Sunday.
Cabins with bunk style lodging with bathrooms Inside.
all recreation (Archery, BB’s, Zipline)
Laser Tag + $20 a person, Oversize Shirts +$5 a person
Contact us for special rates if you need private hotel style housing
for special needs, leaders or pastors. we have limited availability.
This retreat is designed for students ages 12-18 or in grades 6 to 12.
Please call in advance for an OK if you have any students outside of these parameters, or for those which may require special accomodations.
Also be aware that during this time of year all vehicles must carry chains. Please plan ahead with your drivers and transportation companies to have snow ready vehicles. Tirechains.com is a good source.
Our 2025 Steering TeaM
Brian Castillo - Youth Pastor @ Chapel of Change, Paramount, LB, Whittier, Carson, CA
Matu Taylor - Executive Director, STARS, Pasedena, CA
Mark Walker - Youth Pastor @ New Life Community Church, Lincoln Heights, LA, CA
Fedna Pierre-Lewis - Youth Pastor @ New Life Community Church, Lincoln Heights, LA, CA
Sean McFeely - Executive Director @ Oasis Ministry Ventures, Lake Hughes, CA
The Run Down
Brandon Allen | Spoken Word
Brandon Allen a.k.a ‘When Thunder Speaks’ will be leading our March retreat as our MC, and performing spoken word. He did an amazing job in 2022 at ReConnect. He currently serves full time with Rescue A Generation as their programs director.
Life Pacific University Worship TeamThis versatile group of students studying Worship and Music Arts at Life Pacific University in San Dimas, CA brings us a high caliber team that is Spirit led and focused on ushering us into worship representing the diversity and beauty of God’s people. You can preview some of their original compositions on YouTube or Spotify, and anticipate hearing one or two of these songs along with more familiar selections at the retreat.
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RECREATION AND ACTIVITIES
“Winter Camp is where many of our students experience worship for the first time.”
— Bobby Lopez, Passion LA
“I am blow away to see lives transformed every year at the retreat and all the amazing creative expressions our artists bring.”
— Sean mcFeely, OMV
Come. SPARK some fun with your Youth Group and Friends!
The C-Word
Based on current COVID guidance, we are requiring ministries to take temperatures of all group members prior to transport, requesting anyone with flu or COVID symptoms (i.e. you are sick) to stay home, and asking anyone with a positive test result in the last ten days or still in the recommended quarantine period for COVID to stay home.
We will have rapid tests and N95/CN-95 masks available from our health team for those who might want them. Anyone who tests positive for COVID at the retreat will be sent home. Their cabin group / close contacts that test negative may remain and isolate using mandatory masking and distancing in public areas.