1. Get a photo with your friends at the photo booth. Save it so you can collect your prize!
2. Find a conference worker in a black conference shirt and take a photo with them. Don’t have a camera? Write down their name, where they are from, and their favorite part about working the Steubenville Conferences. (BTW, the workers at the “Prize Tent” don’t count!)
3. Go to the Tomb of the Unborn Child and say a decade of the rosary for the end of abortion. Take a picture of the tomb. Don’t have a camera? Write down the inscription on the tomb.
4. Find a statue of St. Francis and take a picture with him. Don’t have a camera? Make a Tau cross from materials around you. Don’t know what a Tau cross is? Ask someone! Make a new friend!
5. Great job! Go to the white tent located in the Rosary Circle and show the staff the pictures/things you collected to get your first prize!
6. Locate the Bible verse for this year’s “Revealed” conference theme and memorize it.
7. Find someone who has attended Franciscan LEAD. Ask them to explain what Franciscan LEAD is and what their favorite part of the week was. Listen carefully because you will have to explain this to the staff at the “Prize Table” to get your bonus prize.
8. Great job! Go back to the tent located in the Rosary Circle. Recite to them the Bible verse for this year’s conference theme from memory as well as explain what LEAD week is to collect your second prize.
9. Introduce yourself to someone in another group and get a picture with them. Don’t have a camera? Write down their name, where they are from, and their favorite part of the conference so far! (BTW, a conference worker doesn’t count!)
10. Get a picture with a conference worker in the photo booth, using the props available. Don’t forget to save the picture!
11. Amazing! You completed “the Hunt”! Go back to the tent and collect your final prize!

If you lost any belongings during the conference, please visit the Information Desk located in the J.C. William’s Center or call (740) 283-3771. Items that are not claimed within two weeks of the conference will be forfeited.

Make sure to take everything that you will need for the day with you when you leave for breakfast or the Morning Session, as all dorms (including Assisi Heights) will be closed at 8:30 a.m, and will not open again until after the evening session.

You will not be permitted to enter the dorms/heights during the day.

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Sunday Morning Keynote Scripture: Luke 24: 13-35 (Road to Emmaus)

1. What is one thing you can do to foster your relationship with Christ after the conference and every day?
2. How can Christ be a part of your everyday activities?
3. Why is it important to pray every day? How will you strive to pray every day?
4. How will you stay connected with youth group, friends, community who are striving to live as followers of Christ?
5. How can you share your faith with others?
6. What are some ways you can serve Christ and reveal His love to others?
7. Who is the Holy Spirit and why is it important to have a relationship with Him?
8. How can you pray for more of the Holy Spirit in your life?
9. In what areas of your life do you most need the Holy Spirit to help you and be with you?
10. If you could ask the Holy Spirit for two things to be a better disciple, what would they be?
11. What did your experience at this conference show you about God’s love and His plan for our life?
12. What are some challenges you are going to face in going home?
13. What will you do if you struggle to live your life in Christ or the circumstances at home make it challenging to live your faith?
14. How can you bring this conference experience back to your parish, youth group, high school, family, etc.?
15. What did you hear this weekend that gives you hope for going back home today?

Continue to ask questions based on what you know about each of the youth in your small group and how they experienced this weekend conference.

To ensure safe entrance into Finnegan Fieldhouse (FFH) as well as to promote fairness in prime seating during the conference, groups will be admitted into the Main Venue sessions at the following times per wristband color:

Friday Evening Session

Blue 5:45pm
Yellow 6:00pm
Green 6:15pm
Red 6:30pm

Saturday Morning Session

Green 7:30am
Red 7:45am
Blue 8:00am
Yellow 8:15am

Saturday Evening Session

Red 6:30pm
Green 6:45pm
Yellow 7:00pm
Blue 7:15pm

Sunday Morning Session

Yellow 8:00am
Blue 8:15am
Red 8:30am
Green 8:45am

From Mass this morning, what struck you about celebrating Mass with a large group of people?

Follow-up this question with an encouragement on how to participate more fully in Mass at their home parish. Also, help them to see the connection between the Mass and Eucharistic Adoration.

Men’s Session Questions:
Men’s Session Scripture: Genesis 2: 4-7, 18-23 (Second Creation Account)

1. As men, what is our true identity?
2. How can we live our identity in Christ?
3. How does the world try to reduce our identity as men about who we are and who God made us to be?
4. What are the lies the world tells you about it means to be a man? How do these lies make it challenging to live as men of God?
5. What are some of the unique, complementary gifts from God given specifically to men?
6. How can we use these gifts to reveal God to all those that we encounter?
7. How can we look to the saints as our model of real masculinity? What virtues and gifts do you see in the saints that we should model?
8. What particular virtue/gift do you feel called to grow in? How can you grow?

Women’s Session Questions:
Women’s Session Scripture: Genesis 2: 4-7, 18-23 (Second Creation Account)

1. As women, what is our true identity?
2. How can we live our identity in Christ?
3. How does the world try to reduce our identity as women about who we are and who God made us to be?
4. What are the lies the world tells you about it means to be a woman? How do these lies make it challenging to live as women of God?
5. What are some of the unique, complementary gifts from God given specifically to women? How can we use these gifts to reveal God and His Fatherly love to all those that we encounter?
6. How can we look to the Blessed Mother and other saints as our model of real femininity?
7. What virtues and gifts do you see in Mary and other saints that we should model?
8. What particular virtue/gift do you feel called to grow in? How can you grow?

• Lanyards MUST be worn at all times.  If you lose your lanyard, immediately report to Central Office (youth must be accompanied by an adult chaperone).
• Bag Size Limits: Bags should be “flat bags” like a cinch bag/drawstring backpack (picture below). No multi-zipper backpacks, oversized backpacks or large totes will be allowed.
• Youth are not allowed to leave the inside of the conference site without a chaperone
• No one without proper Conference Credentials will be allowed onto the conference grounds:
  -Participants: Lanyards for Participants: Lanyards will be required to be worn by all participants when on the conference site. The lanyard will be your conference credentials (instead of bracelets) this year. Chaperones will have one color identifier on their lanyard and young adults will have another. No one without a lanyard will be allowed into the conference.
  -Safe Environment Trained Persons:Volunteers are identified by their “uniform” and MUST wear their conference vests, scrub top or apron at all time as this is your “entry” to the conference. / Priests will be wearing lanyards./Mercy Crew is identified by their shirts./Logistics persons are identified by their shirts.
  -Non Safe Environment Trained Persons: Civic Staff: will have their I.D.s on and many will have Civic Center shirts/Production Staff: will have Gulf Coast Production shirts on/Catering: will have 360 catering shirts on.