REGISTRATION
What is Regeneration 2025?
What is Regeneration 2025 about this year?
The Way of Belonging
The Welcome of God changes everything. We all want someone else to really see us and choose us for who we are. We want a place to finally fit in. But what if finding the right people or the right place is not the answer? What if belonging is not something to attain but someone to become?
Belonging is a welcome we carry with us. Through scripture and spiritual practice we will explore how our longing to belong is an invitation to embrace and extend the deep love of God. The concept of “you are welcome” is twofold. As a person made in the image of God, you are welcome into the wideness of the Father’s embrace, and at the same time, you are welcome to become an extension of that embrace in the world. Welcome is within you.
SCRIPTURE
Ephesians 3:3-7 (NLT) “As I briefly wrote earlier, God himself revealed his mysterious plan to me. As you read what I have written, you will understand my insight into this plan regarding Christ. God did not reveal it to previous generations, but now by his Spirit he has revealed it to his holy apostles and prophets. And this is God’s plan: Both Gentiles and Jews who believe the Good News share equally in the riches inherited by God’s children. Both are part of the same body, and both enjoy the promise of blessings because they belong to Christ Jesus. By God’s grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News.
Ephesians 3:14-21(NLT) When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father,[e] 15 the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.
When is Regeneration 2025?
How old should I be?
How much will it Cost?
Only $25. Only $25? Yes, only $25. That’s a real sweet deal, considering it includes: all housing, meals, fun, electricity, water, heat, swag, places to sit or stand and interesting things to look at for the whole weekend.
Can my spouse and/or child come?
YES! Childcare will be provided for families with children up to 3 years of age. Spouses of registered young adult delegates who are over the age of 30 are welcome to register and attend Regeneration 2025. Please contact our office via email at [email protected].
COVID SAFETY
Regeneration is following the CDC rules for the state of Wisconsin. While we are not requiring a COVID test prior to attending, we encourage you to test before traveling for the weekend. And we don’t want anyone to miss, but if you are feeling ill please stay home. Masks are optional for the weekend.
Where is Regeneration?
Camp Mihaska
1466 Hwy N
Bourbon, MO 65441
OUTCOMES
Regeneration strives to spur you on to active participation in the life, mission and work of The Salvation Army. It stands as an opportunity – a moment in time – for you to respond to the call of God.
Regeneration wants to encourage you to pursue a life of biblical Christianity through committed discipleship and the passionate communication of the Gospel.
Regeneration wants to remind you that God raised you up to be a generation of Believers who are grounded in the Word.
Regeneration was created to help you share your gifts, commit to a personal prayer life, participate in church leadership and seek a deeper personal relationship with Jesus.
Regeneration is a means for you to grow as an individual while you explore ideas, values and faith with a supportive community of your peers.
Regeneration wants to challenge you to form and actively participate in Christian community, specifically through seeking out mentors to help advise you in your Christian walk.
Regeneration wants to renew a sense of mission in your life and wants you to know that The Salvation Army is an idea and it belongs to anyone who can make it real.
SPECIAL GUESTS
OF DUST
Of Dust is a contemporary Christian gospel band. They are group that loves God and desires to serve Him doing what they love – leading worship. Of Dust is from Rockford, Illinois where they started out as their church’s teen praise band. It wasn’t until a church retreat where the founding members felt called by God to create a band that Of Dust began.
This band exists by the will of the Lord, for the will of the Lord. The name “Of Dust” is inspired by Genesis 3:19 and serves two purposes. The first is to remind the band that everything could fall away – money, time, talent, relationships, etc. and we would still be called to praise God. The second is to demonstrate the importance of inclusiveness and humility.
For by the grace of God, we? re all Of Dust.
SARAH E. WESTFALL
Sarah E. Westfall is a lifelong writer, question-asker, and contemplative-at-heart, whose work explores our communal life with God and each other. Professionally, she has walked between the worlds of publishing and community-building. She has a bachelors in English Ed and a masters in Student Development Counseling, which have given her up-close opportunities to live, explore, and expand her experience of how identity, faith, and relationships intersect.
Currently, Sarah is a writer, speaker, and host of the Human Together podcast, as well as author of The Way of Belonging: Reimagining Who We Are and How We Relate (InterVarsity Press, 2024). Weaving together personal narrative, research, and spiritual practice, Sarah offers a gentle invitation to put down the exhausting search for acceptance and approach belonging as a way of being–a divine welcome that is already ours to embrace and to extend right where we are.
Sarah has been married to her favorite person, Ben, for over 20 years, and they live in Indiana with their four sons and one very needy Australian shepherd-terrier, Georgie.
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