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What Is Spring Thaw?
Spring Thaw is a weekend retreat for High School students April 13th-15th 2012 on the Multnomah University Campus. It is designed to foster a love for God and Theology in high school students and is available to youth groups and individuals. The retreat will be 44 hours of worship, Bible, theology seminars, food, concerts, and fun stuff like paintball, laser tag, golf carts, henna, limo-frosty runs, and just having fun with friends.

Feel free to check out this site to see what we’re up to this year. We would love to have you join us.



Activities

Your team of 8 rebel alliance soldiers must infiltrate the Deathstar to locate and rescue princess Leia while being careful to avoid the blaster fire of Vader’s storm troopers. Your team will be equipped with 7 blasters, a sniper rifle, laser grenade, and medic kit. Play as the Rebel alliance or the Stormtroopers.

The Afters have over 10 million views on Youtube including numerous #1 hits like Never going back to ok, Light up the Sky, Start over, and You lift me up. They have recently played the Rose Garden with the Rock and Worship show and will be headlining our Friday night concert.

Located right here in the Northwest, we are proud to welcome “Above the Golden State” to headline our Saturday night concert. Perhaps you’ve heard their singles, At the Sound of Your name, or I’ll love you so, or maybe Gaze into your eyes. Lead singer Michael Watson also leads worship regularly at Solid Rock Church right here in the city.

All the way from Atlanta Georgia, we are pleased to announce Jared Herd as our main session speaker. Jared travels the continent sharing the hopeof Christ with a humorous and captivating approach that has reached thousands of teenagers and college students. He also is the creative director of XP3 and his written “More Lost Than Found”.

Last year Mario kart was a mudfest, so this year Mario is taking it to outer space. Find three friends that are handy with the astro blaster and take your cart through our PAVED course avoiding villains and obstacles alike. This ride is inspired by Buzz Lightyear’s astro blasters. Get ready for a tougher test because there’s no mud to slow us down.

The year is 2034, and North America has falled into ruin. A one world government has taken over and has starved the 12 districts of food. With only your paintball marker and cunning wit to aid you, will you be able to evade the marauding gangs and locate food? Come explore the fall of man in our own version of “The Hunger Games”.

You like Limos, you like Frosty’s, so why not have a Limo Frosty Run? This is your chance to take a free Limo ride with 22 of your closest friends all the way to Wendy’s where you have the option of ordering a $1 Frosty for yourself. We’re increasing capacity this year to accommodate demand.

Weather permitting, we are very excited to offer free hot air balloon rides right here on our campus during Spring Thaw 2012. Come and experience the thrill of lighter than air travel. If you’re interested, pray with us for calm winds and no rain☺ Find His Sky on Facebook.

Following last year, we received numerous requests to bring back “That band from Sunday” and so we are excited to invite Scott Miller to lead worship for Spring Thaw 2012. Scott originally comes to us from Palm Desert, California and now leads worship at Abundant Life Church in Happy Valley.

Saturday afternoon we welcome Dr. Garry Friesen, Dr. Brad Harper, Dr. Ray Lubeck and Worldseen, Prof. Ben Sand, Dr. Debbie Miller, and Prof. Dave Jongeward. This will be your chance to ask some deep and difficult theological questions to individuals who have studied and grappled with these questions for years.

A psychedelic space age, ‘Girls Only’ event. Zoom through time into the lights and glamour of the future for first class, ultramod treatment. Be transported to the moon and let our space age specialists pamper you and your friends at the Lunar Lounge.

Just up the hill from Multnomah sits Central Bible Church and Sk8 Church. They have agreed to give us a Skateboarding Demo Friday night at 9pm. Come see some rad skateboarding tricks including the famed “Ring of fire”.

You want a place to hang out with friends between sessions, maybe listen to some music, eat some food, play some card games, sing some Karaoke, or watch Spring Thaw’s Got Talent. Escape the rain at Jonny Rockets.

Back by popular demand, the XBUS has 16 networked XBOX 360’s for you to get your game on. Challenge your friends to a little friendly competition on the racetrack or in the field. Check them out here.

This year we’re going to have a number of sports including Soccer, Basketball, Ultimate frisbee, Volleyball, Octagon Dodgeball, and, wait for it….. Street Hockey. So if you like sports bring your Nike/Rebook/Under Armor gear because you’ll have a chance to bring it at Spring Thaw 2012.

Let’s be real, You’ve never experienced true persecution, yet Christians all over the world risk death and torture if their faith becomes known. Operation Underground will give you a chance to live that experience. This event may get intense and is recommended for students Grade 11 or older.



Information

What You Need To Know

What?

Spring Thaw is a weekend retreat designed to foster a love for God and Theology in High School Students.

When?

April 13th-15th, 2012, registration runs from 5:15-6:45pm on Friday with Kickoff at 7pm. The retreat ends after lunch on Sunday.

How Much?

$60 per person including meals and lodging or $40 for those who do not require lodging or meals. Students may register individually online, or with a Youth Group.

Who?

High School students Grade 9-12 and the youth leaders who bring them. Spring Thaw is targeted to High School students and we are not open to younger students attending the event. Students should be in at least in grade 9 and 14 or older.

Important Information

  • Meals in the Multnomah Dining Hall are included Saturday and Sunday. Eat dinner on Friday before coming.
  • Guests will be sleeping in dorms and in classrooms. It is crucial that you bring a sleeping bag, pillow, towel and mattress/pad.
  • You may bring iPods, Cell phones, and other technology, but understand that no campus is immune from theft and you won’t be able to lock your dorm room.
  • Alcohol, drugs, weapons, or personal paintball guns are not allowed on campus.

Additional Information For Youth Pastors

  • We will be making use of an online booklet this year providing a schedule of events, descriptions of activities, and map of the campus. We’ll contact you in the new year with the link, and we’ll post QRT codes around the campus (for your smart phone). We’ll also put up some paper schedules on the doors for our low-tech friends:)

  • Youth leaders are welcome to utilize out online group registration. Groups may reserve spots by paying 50% of the total cost at the time of registration (the second 50% will be automatically charged on Feb 29). These spots are guaranteed and transferable, but not refundable this year. (Last year we turned away hundreds then had dozens cancel, this year we want to use every spot.)

  • We are pleased to allow you to include one free leader for every ten students. Leaders must be out of high school and working with the Youth Group. Each group must have at least one leader present at the event. Minimum group size is 5.

Lodging Options For Groups

  1. Multnomah Dorms. The dorms will be full and your students will likely sleep on the floor, but showers are close and the location is central.
  2. Cascade College. The Cascade dorms are one block from campus, but there will be five to a room (2 beds) and showers for all. Groups staying at Cascade must have a leader staying overnight to supervise and assist their group in crossing Glisan St.
  3. MU Classrooms. These areas are central and you can stay with a group of your students. Showers are available in the gym. You will want to bring sleeping air mattresses.
  4. Arrange your own lodging. Groups who wish to find their own lodging, or bring their own tents/rvs will be given a reduced rate of $50 per person.

It is critical that you ensure that your kids bring sleeping bags, pillows, sleeping mattresses and towels.



Registration

Group Registration

  • We have about 44 groups registered for Spring Thaw 2012 and we have now shut down online registration for groups. Group leaders wishing to secure additional spots may contact Bobby Howell at bhowwel@multnomah.edu 503.255.0332. We may still be able to accommodate one or two more groups in the next week or two, for more information again contact Bobby Howell.


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