We heard you, loud and clear!

We heard the feedback from our dads LOUD AND CLEAR after Higher Ground 2018: your teen sons need less sitting, more moving, less downloaded info and more engagement. We heard, and we’re delivering:

Introducing Our ALL-NEW TEEN EXPERIENCE

The Climb at Higher Ground will be a separate main stage experience for young teenage men designed to construct a Godly definition of sexual integrity and illuminate the hazards they’ll face and resources they’ll need to reach that Higher Ground.

Here’s How It Will Work:

Teens will gather with dads/adult men at the 8:30 Morning Session for welcome, worship and announcements. Then, guides will walk them to their own main stage room which will feature purposeful activities, discussion groups, and thought-provoking multi-media specifically designed to provide them with a compelling vision of how to live out their biblical masculinity RIGHT NOW as young men.  After the morning main stage time, dads will be dismissed first from the adult main stage gathering to pick up their teens at The Climb and proceed to their desired morning breakout session.

AFTER lunch and our second breakout session rotation, teens will join their dads in our closing general session featuring 710 Radio ESPN’s Brock Huard.

SPECIAL NOTE FOR DADS: you are welcome to attend The Climb with your sons, but we also encourage you to be ok letting your young men attend The Climb on their own if they’re comfortable flying solo. If you come with them, we encourage you to plan on observing, rather than actively participating, so as to let your son(s) stretch his/their legs a bit in the group activities.  There will be plenty of breakout and ‘debrief time’ for those impactful father-son conversations Higher Ground is known for.

Mike Olson
Junior High Assistant Principal, Bellevue Christian School

KEYNOTE MIKE OLSON
Jr. High Assistant Principal, Bellevue Christian School

Engaging, age-appropriate videos and multi-media supporting the main stage theme

Jubal McDaniel
President & Founder, Northwest Football Ministries

Age-specific discussion groups

Interactive welcome activity facilitated by Jubal McDaniel and the team at Northwest Football Ministries

Same HIGH CALIBER Breakout Sessions, Same GREAT Father-Son Discussion Opportunities

Since our inception, Higher Ground has featured breakout session specifically targeted to Teens and Fathers/Sons.  Previous attendees have shared about how these sessions have provided a framework for deep, Father-Son discussions about sexual integrity, exercising wisdom with technology and building a deeper faith:

This conference was fantastic!!! I came with my stepson and we really connected through the different seminars.

Great bonding time for a father/son.

My son and I will be applying what we learned here immediately.

Mike’s (Olson) direct, no-holds-barred approach really resonated with my son and I.

Higher Ground 2019 will feature MORE BREAKOUT OPTIONS for Teens/Father&Sons to choose from, all of which will encourage important father-son dialogue:

• Father-Son Accountability: Beyond the “Sex Talk”
• UnMasked: from Shame to Intimacy
• Four Lessons from The Song of Songs
• Brain Heart World 3-part documentary series
• Running the Race: Uniting Sports and Faith

Discounted Student, Father-Son Tickets Available

Father/Teen Combo:       $72
Father/2 Teens Combo:  $86
Father/3 Teens Combo:  $100
Father/4 Teens Combo:  $114

Individual Student Tickets (middle school thru college): $25 ea.

In it’s seventh year, the Higher Ground Men’s Conference has become the premier gathering of men of faith (13 years and older) in the Pacific Northwest for encouragement, straight talk and practical tools for winning the battle for integrity. Higher Ground 2019 will feature keynotes Dr. Dan Allender and Brock Huard.

• Learn more about Higher Ground
• Explore all 2019 breakout sessions