IndyCC: What’s it all about?

• Hanging with 2500 of your best (or newest) friends from colleges in IL, IN, OH, and MI.
• Watching your favorite bands perform at Battle of the Bands (new this year).
• Learning about God through engaging speakers with amazing life stories.
• Connecting with the Lord through group worship with a live band.
• Sleeping in one of two really sweet hotels (think “heavenly beds”…)
• Taking the gospel to the Indianapolis community through the Day of Outreach.
• Growing in your relationship with God and experiencing true life change!

Ok, you want the formal definition?
IndyCC (Indianapolis Christmas Conference) is the annual winter conference for college students, hosted by the campus ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, from December 28 - January 1.

This cost covers four nights in a 4-star hotel (except commuters), all conference events (including the concert), and materials. Meals and parking are not included.

*Singles stay four to a room. In order to room with your friends, all of you must go through check-in together.

online registration
When you register online for the conference, you will pay $50 as a deposit towards the total cost. If you're unable to participate in the conference, this deposit is non-refundable and non-transferable.

NEW THIS YEAR! The first 1000 students who are paid in full by noon (EST) December 5, will receive a code for 5 free digital downloads of our conference worship band, Hello Industry.

Online registration will end at noon (EST) on Monday, December 12. If you are unable to register before then, you can still attend the conference as a walk-in.

Checkin will takes place on December 28 at The Westin. Please arrive at the designated time to check-in / registration. All times are EST (Eastern Standard Time). Your arrive time is dependent on where you go to school.

check-in times

Indiana & Illinois colleges2 - 4:30 p.m.
Ohio & Michigan colleges3 - 5:30 p.m.
Parking info

If you are coming from a state not listed here, please go through registration between 2 - 4 p.m.

Avoid the rush by arriving early!
Check-in will end promptly at 5:30 pm. (Late check-in will continue after the evening session.)

If you arrive after 5:30 pm, you must go to the Campus Crusade Info Desk in The Westin to pick up a wristband, which will allow you to attend the evening session. As soon as the evening session ends, you will need to go through late registration.

In order to room with your friends at four per room, all of you must go through registration together. Also, there will be a greater possibility for your campus to be housed on the same floor(s) in a specific hotel if you go through check-in with your entire campus. This is one of the reasons we require campuses to go through registration during the above-mentioned times.

Randy Singer :: Guest Speaker

Randy believes it’s important to simultaneously hold a number of different jobs so that if he gets fired by two employers the same day, he can still avoid the unemployment line. He splits his time and divides his personality between Randy Singer, critically acclaimed author, Randy Singer, veteran trial lawyer, and Randy Singer, ministry leader and preacher. When he grows up, he will decide what he really wants to do.

Randy and his wife Rhonda have two children and live in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Randy's interests are basketball, running, canoeing, hiking, reading, and cheering for his kids' college football teams.

Erick and Elizabeth Schenkel :: Guest Speakers

Erick and Elizabeth Schenkel live in Paris, and serve as Campus Ministry Strategy Directors for several countries in the Middle East. They also oversee the work of Jesus Film teams in over 30 countries. Originally from Northern Kentucky, they spent 20 years doing church-planting and pastoral work in the Boston area, where Erick also earned four degrees in the history of religion, including a PhD from Harvard University.

Erick and Elizabeth have been married for 32 years and have 5 children ranging in age from 16 to 32.

Darin Travis :: Emcee

Darin likes being an emcee. He often walks around the house introducing each new element of the day to his cat. The cat often screams back in excitement, that's when the thrill of being an emcee really pays off. A notable accomplishment of Darin's emcee career was being asked to be the emcee for both the Democratic and Republican national conventions. He turned both of them down to focus his skills on the more important challenge of this year's Christmas Conference. Both Obama and McCain extended their personal regrets that Darin couldn't be with them and asked his cat for highlight footage of Christmas Conference.

When not standing in front of large crowds wondering what he is going to say Darin likes to spend time with his family. He has been married to his wife Barat for 6 years and has three terrific daughters Abby (5), Lexi (3) and Grace (1). He graduated from Purdue University and continues to love college ministry. He currently serves as our regional director for Ethnic Student Ministry.

Hello Industry helloindustry.com

Hello Industry, Made up with the fabric of a homespun utilitarian, a methodical salsa dancer, a compulsive perfectionist, and a bossy enthusiast, Hello Industry is exactly what you would imagine – a production of musical amazement. But not soulless automatons that have forgotten who they were, where they have been and how far they have left to go.

Hello Industry first graced the IndyCC state as the Nathan Peterson Band with the album “Fooled.” Conceived in 1999 and released in January of 2006, their initial exertion is available on iTunes and on their website. Like all the best stories, come experience the first moves of adventure. Hello Industry.

Because the Indianapolis Christmas Conference is such an exciting and life changing experience, we want to make every resource available to get you there! So below you'll find ideas on how to raise funds to afford to go, a letter for your parents explaining the conference, a FAQ section for your parents, and even more! We hope this helps you along the way in getting to Indianapolis this year. See you there!

Downloads

letter to parents from the conference team (word doc)
suggested fundraising schedule (word doc)
sample letter (word doc)
letter to your pastor for fundraising (word doc)
Under 18 - Medical Release Form (pdf)

This year we have posted an event on Facebook for Christmas Conference. We hope you will use it as a tool to invite your friends. TAKE A LOOK.

Brochure PDF (requires Adobe Reader)

Download the Videos

You can download each video file at a higher quality from the vimeo website where they are hosted.

Check out the Vimeo IndyCC page.

Once you are on the vimeo website, you will need to create a vimeo account in order to download the source files located at the bottom of the page for each video individually.