2025 LCMS National Youth Gathering
July 19-23, 2025
New Orleans, Louisiana
Meet your LCMS Youth Gathering Northing Illinois District Coordinators!
Alex Brice – Director of Christian Education at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, St. Charles, Illinois, 630-584-8638
David Meier – Director of Christian Education at Immanuel Lutheran Church, East Dundee, Illinois, 847-428-4477
Zoom Office Hours
We’d love to connect with you! Join us during our open office hours on Zoom, Thursday, December 5, 2024, from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
This will be a great chance to introduce yourself, hear updates from your District Coordinators, and get important details about the All Illinois District Event. Feel free to pop in anytime during the window and stay as long as it fits your schedule.
Email Lois Stewart at lois.stewart@nidlcms.org for the Zoom link. If you can’t make it during the open hours, don’t worry! Keep an eye out for District event information and registration details coming your way soon.
Connect on Facebook
A Facebook group has been set-up for the 2025 LCMS Youth Gathering Adult Leaders from the Northern Illinois District. Here we will be passing along important information from the National Office as well as making District specific announcements about gathering related events and preparations. We’d love to have you be a part of this online community!
Held every 3 years since 1980, the LCMS Youth Gathering provides thousands of youth and adults the opportunity to come together as a community of God’s people to be encouraged in their walk with Jesus Christ and learn about the Christian faith and their Lutheran identity.
The Gathering is more than the five days of the event. The preparation process for the Gathering brings together young people and supportive adults to encourage each other in their baptismal identity. The Gathering provides young people a vision for the vastness of Christ’s Church and equips them for vocational service as they continue their walk with Jesus.
This event is organized by LCMS Youth Ministry in Saint Louis, MO.