Freshwind Youth Conference

Freshwind is one of Canada’s largest church sponsored youth conferences. It is packed full of loud, exuberant, and passionate worship. It has dynamic, practical, down to earth yet inspired by heaven speakers, and has come to be known as the highlight of many young people's years.

Worship // Speakers

Leeland

Grammy - nominated progressive rock act Leeland has been known to deliver songwriting beyond its years and worshipful rock so genuine it disarms the honest cynic. Often quoted as one of Christian music’s most gripping live bands, the 2006 debut Sound of Melodies and 2008’s Opposite Way quickly established Leeland as a leader in the worship community and beyond. While both previous albums were Grammy nominated and drew a combined eight Dove nominations, Leeland’s measure of success has always been the human heart. And now Leeland’s third album, Love Is On The Move is a landmark in the deepest sense.

The Freshwind Band

The Freshwind Band desperately desires to see hearts grow in passion for God. The band was birthed at Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship’s annual Freshwind Youth Conference. For the past five years they’ve seen thousands of lives changed through passionate praise and intimate worship. Each year requests came in floods for live recordings to be available, so the albums started rolling out. Two albums and thousands of air-miles later the Freshwind Band’s passion to see hearts around the globe connect with God has only increased.

After Edmund

After Edmund is Grammy and Dove Award nominated for best album in their category for their debut record, 'Hello'. The band's sound is a complex mix of euro rock with American indie accessibility. Having been raised on a hearty intake of indie, classic and experimental rock, along with the fact that members are classically trained and met amidst college music classes, are just a few points of distinction for After Edmund in the modern pop/rock pack. This quintet from Georgia (named after the Edmund character in C.S. Lewis’ best-selling book series The Chronicles of Narnia ) has been electrifying their regional scene and beyond since 2001. After Edmund is Mitch Parks, Matt McFadden, Sir Edmund Yates and Ben Hosey. Their hearts are passionate to share the good news of Christ to those around them and to see the love of God move in all that they do.

Bobby Conner

Bobby Conner is uniquely anointed with refreshing humor and razor-sharp prophetic accuracy which has been documented around the world. Bobby's dynamic capacity to release outstanding demonstrations of the miraculous -- healings, signs and wonders -- reveals the very heart of the Father toward us. Out of his deep intimacy with Jesus Christ, Bobby is super-sensitive to what the Holy Spirit is now doing throughout the world. The Father heart of God, expressed so beautifully through Bobby and his wife, Carolyn, lastingly transforms lives in every service. Bobby has an extensive ministry background as a Southern Baptist pastor and he ministers in a high level, proven prophetic anointing. He believes his calling is to equip the Body of Christ to hear and discern God's voice in these times. Bobby has ministered effectively to over 45 foreign countries as well in the United States for many years.

Carlos Rodriguez

Since 1998, Carlos has been working with youth groups and leading teams in evangelism and worship on his sunny island of Puerto Rico. He came to our School of Ministry in Spring 2001 to "get more fire and do more ministry" but to his surprise, what he got was a revelation of the Father's heart that changed his motivations and dreams. He spent a year as a Small Group Leader and another 2 years traveling as a spiritual son with Pastors John and Carol Arnott, preaching and leading International Leaders' Schools of Ministry. He has been trained to be a church planter and God's love has radically transformed him from being an orphan to a son of his Heavenly Daddy; a son who loves to see healings, miracles and the release of the prophetic. He went back home to the Caribbean to pastor for 4 years and married his sweetheart from England, Catherine Rachel (his favorite person ever). Now together, with his wife and lead pastors Duncan and Kate Smith, they head up the Fire Network; a youth movement that has planted a church inside North Carolina State University. They are reaching the city through prophetic evangelism, loving the poor and mentoring high school students while multiplying radical leaders and having as much fun as possible! He's a very passionate speaker that loves to challenge the "status quo" and get people into living their Oneness with Christ in the fullness of the Holy Spirit while sitting on their Father's lap. He is passionate about revival, passionate about his upcoming adoption and passionate about chocolate milk.

Ben Kennedy

Ben Kennedy has a passion to raise up the next generation to grab hold of the destiny God has for them and to teach and equip them to run with it. Ben is the Youth Pastor at Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship and has been involved at TACF since the early age of 8. Ben describes revival as being a "growing experience" for him since his family has been a part of TACF since early 1992 and in that time has been a part of various missions around the world. Ben’s favorite food is from a local pizza joint near his house, where the pizza slices are the size of your head for less than a toonie.
When some of the youth were asked to describe Ben they used the following statements: "Ben is big and friendly." "Ben has money." "Ben is fun loving and has a passion for God." "Ben has a face only a mother could love." "He is respected." "Ben is so animated he's contagious." "Ben is crazy like a fox." "Ben likes God so much it hurts my teeth.

Jonathan Schunker

Jon has a blazing passion for Youth & Young Adults to walk in the understanding of being sons and daughters of God and to live in the complete freedom that was bought at the cross. Jon enjoys speaking into the lives of young people about their future and calling them into the destiny that God has for them. He came to Canada from Pakistan in 1994 and fell in love with the Canadian culture and people. He went through the School of Ministry in 2005 and had his world rocked by God during that time. He realized that he wanted to see people of all ages, groups and races come into a personal revelation of the incredible Love of God for them, and he told God that he would do whatever God called him to do in order to see this happen. After the School of Ministry, he stayed on as an intern with the Youth and Young Adult Department, then got hired on as staff and was asked to be a youth pastor of one of the campuses. He currently leads the Youth and Young Adults in Newmarket and together with his team will be planting a Young Adult focused Campus this year!

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Registration:
Early Bird Registration (by March 1st): $49 per person
Regular Registration: $69 per person
Group Rate: Receive 1 free registration for every 5 paid registrations!

Meal Plan:
Thurs: Lunch & Dinner
Fri: lunch & Dinner
Sat: Dinner
Only $56.50 including taxes

Conference starts at 2pm on Thursday and ends on Saturday 11pm.* Please note that there is a $25 (per person) cancellation fee. Refunds (minus the cancellation fee) will be extended upon written notification BEFORE the conference.** Meals plans are ONLY refunded if written cancellation request is received fifteen days prior to the conference.

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