Worship-led
High-energy experiences through music, storytelling, and encounter. Live worship, large-group engagement, testimony, and moments of encounter with Jesus.
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Peer with peer
Relational ministry that builds trust, belonging, and a personal response. Small groups, conversation, accompaniment, and age-appropriate formation.
Combined experience
Encounter, relationship, and leadership together. Ignite worship and storytelling, NET peer-to-peer facilitation, and optional leadership components.
What a retreat day looks like
The day engages reasoning, judgement, application, and evaluative skills while exploring a theme. Small groups, creative activities, topical debates, experience-based learning, and prayer all have a place.
Welcome and engagement
Games and small-group activities create connection and help students feel ready to take part.
Going deeper
Talks and personal testimonies lead into guided small-group discussion.
Reflection and prayer
Quiet reflection and prayer give students a way to respond, and practical tools for the days after the retreat.
Build self-worth
Each student’s awareness of God’s unconditional love and acceptance.
Inspire a positive faith
A hopeful attitude toward faith, family, society, and the Church, through authentic witness.
Model a living faith
Team members’ own lives, and an invitation for students to make their own response to Jesus.
Secondary themes
Wonder
Discovering God in the everyday. Students stop and consider whether Jesus has relevance to their lives today.
Reach Out
Years 10 to 12 (NZ Years 11 to 13). Social responsibility, human dignity, and compassion lived out, not only discussed.
Rise Up
Meaning and purpose. Faith as the way into life’s biggest questions.
The Light
Hope and resilience, and how students can carry light into their relationships, school, and world.
Redefined
Servant leadership, modelled on Jesus, among friends and classmates.
Junior themes
Friendship City
Authentic friendship, from Jesus’ words about a city on a hill. Community that brings light.
Un-titled
Leadership as influence, whether or not someone holds the title of leader.