Southern California

The Youth Pastor Summit is geared towards all Youth Pastors and Key Youth Leaders (staff or volunteers) and Christian school educators. All attendees must be 18 years or older. 

We strongly recommend that you register early for YPS as some events do fill up within hours or days.   Yet, we will keep registration open until we are full.   And if there is space available, we do allow walk-ups.   The registration fee is based on when you register ($49 early bird registration and $69 closer to the event).   Walk-up registrations are handled onsite.

Scroll up to the top of the page and click the “Register Now” button once registration opens on January 8, 2026.

There are two options for registration:

Individual Registration: Individual registration is for single attendees, who will need to sign up through his or her own registration account as the system will not allow duplicate email addresses.

Group Registration Option: This will allow you to register members of your team and/or family under one account and pay at one time. All members must have a unique email address. You will need to know each team member’s email address and date of birth (must be 18 at the time of registration) to register them. If a member of your group already has an SLU account with their email address but is currently not a member of your group account online, you will need email us at yps@studentleadership.net so we can add them.

This event does allow you to register as a group.   Accounts should be set up under your ministry’s primary contact and from there you can add your entire team.

Through the generosity of our Event Sponsors, lunch is being provided on the second day.

Of course! We love when couples do ministry together. Make sure you register them so they are guaranteed a spot. Each attendee of YPS must be registered for the event and each attendee must register with their unique email address.

New 2 Ministry Pre-Conference For Youth Pastor Summit 

Get what you need before the conference even starts! A special pre-conference session designed for those who are New2Ministry (2ish years or so) in mind! A roundtable session that is wildly practical, conversational, pro-active, and specifically tuned to set up you and your team, a new-ish youth ministry leader with an action plan for how to better build a healthy ministry. Our friends at Lifeway Students want to connect and equip you with the strategy and stuff you need to lead well now.

You can sign up for this as part of your regular YPS registration. **Space is limited.**

We think families are great, and time together is important.  Yet, this event is only for those who are 18 and older and who have graduated high school. We want everyone to have the best experience possible at this event, so please make arrangements to leave your children at home or arrange childcare for outside of the conference.

If you are registered as a group, we will do a one-time transfer of any of your participants, without penalty. Transfers are not available on individual registrations. This one-time transfer must occur by 2 PM Friday before the event.  To make a transfer on your account, email us at yps@studentleadership.net from your group leader’s email indicating the individual(s) you are canceling and the name, email, and DOB of the new registration(s). We will only make a transfer(s) on each group registration one time, and once you have made a transfer, your group is then finalized.

Yes! We have several opportunities for you to partner with us.   Click here to learn more and click here to apply.  All applications must be received by March 13, 2026 for the spring events and October 2, 2026 for the National Conference.  Applications are considered on a rolling basis.