Dear Campus Leader,

  I am thankful for your commitment to the students on your campus and your desire to bring them “face-to-face” with Jesus Christ at this year's MAIN EVENT Retreat. After seeing God move mightily in the hearts of students at this event each year, I have great expectations of what He will do this year.

  The purpose of the MAIN EVENT is to glorify God by providing an opportunity for college students to come face-to-face with Jesus Christ, so that they might know Him and make Him known to others..

  Our theme this year is “Seek His Face” with our speaker, Kevin Wilkening, sharing from a collection of passages. Our desire is to see God move in the hearts of young men and women, leading them to an understanding that the greatest joy and satisfaction in life is found in a vital, living relationship with God, through Jesus Christ. Please continue to pray that God will use this event to draw young men and women to Himself. Pray also for our speaker as he prepares his messages over the next several weeks.

  Thank you for your partnership in the Gospel!

  Scott Brown
Main Event Director

In order to help this event run smoothly, would you please read through this entire Campus Leaders Guide?

Enclosed is important information which will help you, including details on:

·                    Registration and dividing students into small groups

·                    Small Group Leaders (recruiting and preparing small group leaders)

·                    Transportation

·                    MAIN EVENT schedule

Registration Information

  The early registration deadline for this year's retreat is Oct. 9th. After the early registration deadline has passed, we will email you the list of students from your campus who have pre-registered.We will get this to you by Wednesday, October 10th. At that point, your job is to go over the list and put your students into small groups of 7-8. Please designate 1-2 of these students to be small group leaders. You can email your small group list to us at uninavs@cfu.net. Please get this to our office by noon on Monday, Oct. 15th. If you personally know of students who will be registering after the early deadline has passed, please include those people in your small groups and encourage them to complete the registration process as soon as possible. If you are expecting a few last minute sign-ups, you may wish to leave a few open spots in your small groups. The end result we desire is to have full small groups of eight once the MAIN EVENT begins. We will not be able to have any groups larger than eight because of restrictions on group size for the Saturday evening supper in Host Homes.

  Please note this change: If we receive registrations this year after noon on Monday, October 15th we will not be assigning them to small groups until Friday evening when students register at the door. It has caused too many challenges to make multiple changes in the final few days leading up to MAIN EVENT. Campus Representatives will need to be available Friday night, at the registration table, to help put students from your campus who register late or at the door that evening into small groups.

  You are to email us your small group list by noon on Monday, Oct. 15^th. It is critical that we have this info in our office by noon on Monday!!!!!!! On this list, please designate who the small group leaders will be for each group by placing an asterisk * by their name. We are suggesting that you choose two of the eight students to be small group leaders. Most campuses include both men and women in each small group, but this decision will be left to you. What is most critical is that we have full groups of eight, by noon on Monday. If you register a small group of less than seven students, we reserve the right to add additional students from other campuses.

Full-time staff/Adult sponsors

You are considered to be “on staff” for the weekend. On Saturday night, while the students are attending their host home dinner, all staff/sponsors, exhibitors and volunteers (Special Forces) are invited to a catered meal at 5:30 p.m. at Trinity Bible Church, in Cedar Falls. Staff are welcome to stay overnight with the students on campus, at no cost, or may stay in a hotel at their own expense. If you would like assistance in finding accommodations at a local motel, please contact Tami Brown, by Oct. 9th, at tamisue@cfu.net.

Small Group Leaders

The small group leader at the MAIN EVENT has a great deal of responsibility and serves on the “front lines” of ministry throughout the weekend. It is important to choose men and women who have demonstrated a love for Jesus Christ, a maturity in their walk with Christ, and a willingness to lead others to Jesus. It is also important that they be responsible and teachable. The responsibilities of the small group leader are:

1)      To attend the small group leaders meeting on Saturday morning of the MAIN EVENT Retreat. This will take place at Missionary Hall on the Cedar Falls Bible Conference grounds on Saturday morning at 8:15 a.m.

PLEASE NOTE: An outline for a Small Group Leaders meeting you are to have with your leaders prior to the Main Event retreat is available for download. You will want to schedule a time to meet with all of your small group leaders a week or two prior to the retreat.

2)      2) Facilitating three small group discussions and being sensitive to group dynamics.

3)      3) Directing the group to their Saturday evening host home supper (with the map we will provide).

4)      4) Follow-up with the students after the weekend is over.

Transportation

Each campus is responsible for getting their students to the MAIN EVENT. Because there will be some travel taking place, during the retreat, it will be necessary to have your cars or vans available for the entire weekend. If you will be traveling in vehicles that will be carrying more than eight people, please let us know about this as soon as possible, by emailing us at uninavs@cfu.net. We will need this information to make appropriate arrangements to get you to the Saturday evening supper at the host homes. When you arrive at the Riverview Conference Center, a parking attendant will direct you where to park. All sleeping bags and clothes, etc. should remain in the vehicles until later in the evening. Later that evening (after the large group session) your entire group will drive over to the Wellness Recreation Center (WRC) where we will have recreation time and pizza until 1:30am. All students will remain in the WRC for their sleeping accomodations.

Main Event Schedule

Small Group Leader's Meeting