Nieuwpoort 2024
European Youth Conference
ARRIVAL
DEPARTURE
Thursday January 4 (between 14:00 and 17:00)
Sunday January 7 (after lunch between 14:00 and 15:30)
MINISTERS
Lord willing, this year the following Brothers will be ministering:
Bro. Andrew Spencer
Elkton, VA, USA
Bro. Matthew Watkins
Beaufort, SC, USA
Bro. Paul Haylett
Nampa, ID, USA
THEME
INVITATION
FOLDER
Click on the image to download and print the invitation folder.
ANNOUNCEMENT
VIDEO
SERVICES
THURSDAY 19:30
FRIDAY 10:00 & 19:30
SATURDAY 10:00 & 19:30
SUNDAY 10:00
AGE LIMIT
PRICE & PAYMENT
The age limit is 13 to 33.
You must be 13 at the start date of the youth conference (no exceptions).
The price for this year € 175 per person for the early-bird discount (=paid and registered before November 15).
Otherwise € 220 per person.
Payment will need to be done directly online (credit/debit card, PayPal, iDeal and Sofort bank transfer) with your registration.
Cancellation policy: click here.
Approved helpers who stay at a hotel (not organized by us), also need to register for the meals.
REGISTRATION
We are fully booked, and the waiting list is closed.
If you are registered on the waiting list, we will contact you in case a spot becomes available on a first come, first served basis.
If you register, you agree to our camp rules agreement.
Registration deadline: November 30 or when filled up. First come = first served.
TRANSLATION
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
MUSIC
INSTRUMENTS
SPECIAL SONGS
FAQ
VISA
The preaching will be in English.
Translation will be provided into French, German and Dutch.
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The price includes the overnight stay, bedding, 3 meals a day and (sport) activities.
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You don't need to bring any bedding, but towels are NOT included
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Bring warm clothes, as it can be very cold
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To play indoor sports, you’ll need white soled indoor sport shoes
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Please mind to dress decently, the way the prophet taught us
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First meal is Thursday night
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Last meal is Sunday lunch
We would love to have each group sing a special song.
Practice your specials at home, as there will be very limited time to do a final practice during the conference.
You can let us know what songs you'll be singing (with lyrics) by email at camps@messageyouth.com
Bearing in mind that many of you play instruments in your local churches, we cannot have everyone play their instrument during the song services. For harmonic reasons we will play with a fixed instrumental setup. However you are more than welcome to play your instrument during your group's special.
Our administration can no longer provide any visa guarantee letters or visa invitations. If you want to come to the youth conference and need a visa, please ask a friend to write a visa invitation letter for you. Please do not contact our administration, as they cannot help you with this question.
YOUTH
HOSTEL LOCATION
De Barkentijn
Albert I laan 126
8620 Nieuwpoort
Belgium
PARKING
TRAVEL
By car: The parking is no longer available at the youth hostel. 2 alternative parking options available:
1. OPTION 1: Free parking Parking Kattesas (no security, 2.6 km from the Youth Hostel)
Address: Smokkelstraat, 8620 Nieuwpoort
It is possible to drop your luggage at the youth hostel first. Possible to walk to the youth hostel (30 min) or take the tram.
2. OPTION 2: Paid parking Indigo Nieuwpoort Promenade (undergroud, paying, 450 meter walk from the youth hostel)
Address: Dienstweg Havengeul 12a, 8620 Nieuwpoort
By bus: Affordable bus rates are available for example via www.flixbus.com.
By plane: Book early for affordable flights to Brussels Airport (BRU) or Charleroi Airport (CRL).
From Brussels Airport take the train and tram (see below). From Charleroi Airport take the shuttle bus or train to Brussels, then take the train and tram (see below).
Airline examples: Ryanair, Easyjet, Brussels Airlines.
By Train & Tram: Take the train to Brussels & connect to Oostende.
In Oostende take the tram direction "De Panne" and get off at the stop "Nieuwpoort-Bad". Then take the parallel road next to the sea coast direction West. The youth hostel is 200m down this road.
Travelers are responsible to provide their own transportation to the youth hostel. Our administration is not able to make pick-up arrangements.
MEETINGS LOCATION
The meetings will not take place at the youth hostel, but at a larger facility called "Centrum Ysara".
This is a 5 min walk (450m) from the youth hostel.
Before the service, a pilot person will guide you to the meeting location.
After the service, a pilot person will guide you back to the youth hostel.
Due to limited space, the meetings are exclusive for registered youth. Visitors (parents, adults,...) are not allowed.
Centrum Ysara
Dienstweg Havengeul 14
8620 Nieuwpoort
YOUTH CONFERENCE THEME
Isaiah 43:18-19
18.Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
19. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
WMB, 55-1110 - A Hidden Life In Christ, San Fernando California, U.S.A.
25 What a beautiful picture it is today of a consecrated life who, once enters into with Christ, dead to the things of the world, hid away with God, and the veil’s dropped down around, and all the world’s shut off. Then Christianity and religion becomes a pleasure to every believer.
Today people just have enough religion to make them miserable, knowing that they ought to do this, they’re trying to escape hell. Well, if that’s the way I felt about it, brother, I don’t know what I would do.
Oh, get in with Christ. Shut off from the things of the world, for, to commune with Him is a pleasure. It’s beautiful. It’s something that fills and satisfies the soul, something that gives you peace that passes all understanding. All the crosses become flying wings. All the burdens are chariot wheels. Oh, you can fly away.
26 “My burdens are light.” Yoke up with Him, the yoke is all padded with Hallelujahs. When you’re once inside the veil with Him, He becomes your life.
The prophet said that in…The people of the old days said I…That He would write His laws anew. He would put them in their heart.
Now, Mount Sinai was a place of duty. But Mount Calvary was a place of grace. People are still trying to live on Mount Sinai. “If I’ll go to church, if I’ll pay my dues, if I’ll do this or do that, if I’ll quit this and stop that.” That’s still on Mount Sinai.
When you come to a place where you are dead, and your life is hid in God through Christ, sealed by the Holy Ghost, the whole Christian life becomes a great glorious shout and a hallelujah to you. And you’re hid away daily.
Now, we notice that once in there, he was isolated from the world. The curtains dropped around him and he was hid away with God. Everything become real, a glory. In this place where we once get hid away with Christ, everything becomes a new thing to us then.