July 18-23
NYC 2026 forms and payments are due as soon as possible! You can find the forms and link to pay online in your confirmation email that you received after registering. For those paying by check, please put NYC on the memo line and mail to 1451 Dundee Ave, Elgin, IL 60120. If you need the forms again or have questions, please email cobyouth@brethren.org.
NYC 2026 Offerings
Read about the organizations that NYC participants are encouraged to give towards during worship services and when each offering will be collected. We’re excited that online giving will be available this year, along with physical financial contributions!
Estes Valley Investment in Childhood Success (EVICS) Family Resource Center- Sunday Evening
EVICS Family Resource Center offers parents and families the necessary resources to thrive. EVICS provides support groups to parents and helps them create a plan to reach family goals. EVICS also provides educational experiences and supply kits to children before they return to school or begin school for the first time. During Sunday evening worship, we are collecting coloring books, packs of pencils, packs of pens, and notebooks to help children and youth thrive in the upcoming school year.
Global Food Initiative- Monday Morning
The Global Food Initiative empowers people to meet their nutritional needs, to farm sustainably, to feed children, and to create livelihoods. Donations to the Global Food Initiative (GFI) during Monday Morning worship supports food security and hunger-related initiatives around the world in countries like Honduras, Ecuador, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Burundi, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of Congo. Recent GFI grants supported an aquaculture farm in the Dominican Republic, small animal microbusiness projects in Honduras, yucca grinding machines for Indigenous women in the Venezuelan Amazon rainforest, and school garden programs in Ecuador.
NYC Scholarship Fund- Tuesday Morning
Did you know that youth from across the world have been invited to NYC? The NYC Scholarship Fund supports multicultural domestic and international youth in their efforts to attend NYC. By contributing to the NYC Scholarship Fund, you have the opportunity to widen the welcome of NYC! Giving to the NYC Scholarship Fund on Tuesday Morning helps to ensure that more youth will have the chance to experience NYC in 2030.
July 18 – 23 at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colorado
National Youth Conference (NYC) provides young people in high school and the first year of college (or are age equivalent) and their advisors the chance to gather for a week of fellowship, worship, workshops, recreation and more!
Who is eligible to attend?
Youth who have completed ninth grade through one year of college at the time of NYC (or are age equivalent) and their adult advisors are invited to attend. All youth must be accompanied by an adult advisor. Please send at least one advisor for every five youth. If sending female youth, please send a female advisor and if sending male youth, please send a male advisor. All adult advisors must be a minimum of 22 years of age.
What is the theme?
Light within Us, based on Matthew 5:14 – 16.
What is the cost?
Early registration fee (registering in January and February) is $625 per person. Regular registration (during March and April) is $650. Late registration (during May and June) is $675. All registration fees will cover lodging, food, and programming while at NYC. Registration will open January 5th, 2026!
How can I find out more?
Visit this page regularly! Connect on social media. Contact Becky Ullom Naugle, director of Youth/Young Adult Ministries, at bullomnaugle@brethren.org or 847-429-4385 with questions.
Thank you for attending or supporting National Youth Conference 2022. We hope to get you involved with NYC 2026! Below is a glimpse of NYC 2022 “by the numbers.”
NYC 2022
- 580 Youth
- 224 Adult Advisors
- 97 NYC Staff Including Denominational Staff and Volunteers
- 154 Congregations Represented
- 4 Countries Represented, Including: United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, and Spain
- 25 States and the District of Columbia Represented, Including: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin
- $2,521.75 collected for Church World Service School Kits
- $1,949.56 collected for the NYC Scholarship Fund
- $3,060 collected to Offset Hiking Costs
- 444 Diapers Assembled for Diapers for Haiti
- 3,102 Church World Service School Kits Assembled
Stay Connected
Aging out of senior high activities? Young Adult Conference happens every spring over Memorial Day weekend, and is a great opportunity to connect with other young people!
Connect on social media! The Instagram and Facebook pages are great to stay up to date on denominational events!