Hume is partnering with Joel Weldon and 02 Worship to host our Student Worship Retreat! Bring your youth worship teams and aspiring musicians up for a weekend worship experience like no other. These three days will enrich their leadership, build the depth, breadth, and health of your student’s abilities. Many Breakout sessions presented through the weekend will target every band and tech team member. A chart-topping house band will guide us through the main sessions, featuring a worship songwriting contest, along with terrific giveaways at every meeting. Experience powerful times of worship that you can take back down the mountain to your churches!
Retreat Host
Joel Weldon
A prolific singer/songwriter/composer, Joel Weldon has written a diverse collection in his life’s work, now spanning more than 2 decades. Mainstream Christian rock; moving story ballads; passionate songs of worship; even composing music for 5 PBS documentaries and jingles for corporations such as Caterpillar. His music has been featured on CMT ( Country Music Television), Promise Keepers, Harvest Crusades with Greg Laurie, Franklin Graham Crusades, Young Life International, and churches have used his worship songs across the USA and around the world, including songs licensed to WORD Records, Maranatha Music, Vineyard Music, Willow Creek Association, and many others.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Erik Thoennes
Dr. Erik Thoennes is Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at Biola University and is a pastor at Grace EVFree, La Mirada. He was voted Professor of the Year twice, and was awarded the Faculty Excellence Award by his colleagues at Biola University. He is the author of “Life’s Biggest Questions: What the Bible Says About the Things that Matter Most,” and “Biblical and Theological Studies: A Student’s Guide,” Erik and his wife Donna have four children; Caroline, Paige, Samuel, and Isaac.
Justin Unger
House Band
Likewise Worship exists for the purpose of discipling worship leaders that God is calling to shepherd His people. We aim to equip and develop followers of Jesus and gifted musicians to lead humbly and creatively in their contexts for the purpose of unifying the local church through music and worship.
Presenters/Clinic Instructors
Songwriting Competition
SUBMIT AN ORIGINAL WORSHIP SONG
Deadline: 11:59pm February 28, 2022
Contest Rules
- Each attendee of the ASCEND: Student Worship Retreat is eligible and invited to submit an original worship song they have written which their youth group or congregations sings. Simply email the song to ASCENDsongcontest@humelake.org or uploading it directly to ASCEND Worship Song Contest Submission (open to other email suggestions) by February 28, 2019. There is no need for the song to be professionally produced.
- Include back history of each song submitted (the story of how your song came to be written).
- Include a signed contract (available here) with each song submitted.
- All songs will be reviewed by 2019 ASCEND clinicians on the basis of correct theology & singability. All genres will be considered. These clinicians will narrow the pool of entries to the 2 by listening to the submitted recordings
Contest Winners
- The top song submitted from among all song submissions will be announced at the final meeting of the ASCEND: Student Worship Retreat on March 24, 2019.
- The contest winner will be offered a free return trip to the next ASCEND: Student Worship Retreat in 2019. They will also have a live recording of their song made available to them after the culmination of the retreat.
ASCEND Student Worship Retreat attendees are invited to submit their original worship songs for consideration and evaluation. From all the submissions, a panel of varied worship leaders and industry professionals will select the top song based off of singability, theological soundness, and musical coherency.
Email a lead sheet and MP3 or download link to songcontest@humelake.org
We are only looking for “congregational worship” songs that churches can use during a worship service, not “artist” or “performance” songs.
One song per attendee, please.
Whatever you can do is fine! We’ve accepted and selected song demos ranging from just guitar and vocal, to mixes straight off the sound board on Sunday morning, to fully produced demos.
We can only accept MP3 recordings.
Once the deadline passes on February 29th, the selection process takes a week or two. When the songs are chosen, we notify the writers immediately. Unfortunately, due to the large volume of submissions, we can only notify the selected writers. So, if you don’t hear from us within two weeks of February 29th, your song was not selected. (But thank you in advance for your submission, and keep trying! Some writers submitted several years in a row before their songs were selected!)
No way! The writer retains all rights to the song.
11:59 pm on February 29th is our absolute cutoff. To be fair to all, we will not accept any submissions that come in after that time!
Retreat Daily Schedule
FRIDAY
3:00 PM Arrival and check–in
5:30–7:15 PM Dinner; Sign-ups and announcements for Saturday Breakouts
7:30—9:00 PM Opening Session I
9:30—11:00 PM Open Mic and Snacks
SATURDAY
8:00–9:00 am Breakfast
9:10—9:55 am Breakouts #1
9:55—10:00 am Break
10:00—11:15 am Main Session II
11:15—11:25 am Break
11:25 am—12:20 pm Breakouts #2
12:30—1:30 pm Lunch
1:30—4:30 pm Recording sessions in Hume Studio
2:00—5:00 pm Free Time
4:30—5:15 pm Optional Q&A with leadership team (Meadow Ranch Chapel)
5:30—7:15 pm Dinner
7:15—9:15 pm Main Session III
9:30—10:30 pm Songwriting Panel, Song Submissions Judging (optional)
10:30—11:30 pm Open Mic and Snacks
SUNDAY
8:00—9:00 am Breakfast
9:30—10:45 am Breakouts #3
11:00—11:45 am Main Session IV with Communion
10:30 am Meeting
12:00 pm Lunch — Goodbye!
Registration
Youth Student
Ages 14-17
A Chaperone must be provided for every Student or Single Gender Student Group.
$209
Chaperone
Over 18
Chaperones act as counselors for any youth student in the cabin
$179