NYC 2026 – Salt Lake City
Nazarene Youth Conference
Hosted by the Church of the Nazarene, NYC is a powerful youth event that has been held in different locations over the past six decades. It takes place every few years and provides an opportunity for high school students from the USA and Canada to be united in a time of worship, teaching, and community service. Imagine–8,000 teenagers coming together in Salt Lake City, Utah!
What happens in Salt Lake City?
About NYC:
- 4-day youth conference for high school students
- Ministry With Others community service projects that impact the host city
- Plenary sessions featuring engaging speakers and creative artists
- Worship services led by a skilled worship band
- Live concerts featuring top Christian recording artists
- Daily teachings that challenge and unite students
- Resources students can take home after the event
- Interactive experiences designed for group discipleship and creative learning
- Recreation Hall with individual group activities, games, and exhibits
This year’s Theme
God is so much bigger than we give Him credit for. Even bigger than we can imagine. Think about the mountains and valleys, the oceans, the sky, the entire universe – then go bigger, and you still haven’t reached God-sized. Yet it all works perfectly, exactly as it should. There are countless displays of the precision of wonder in which the earth and mankind work in one with each other. His fingerprints are evident in all the natural wonders we see. But it’s easy to lose that, isn’t it? It’s easy to lose our sense of wonder. That outward wonder becomes an inward wonder – who am I? Where do I belong? Why am I here? Let’s remember who we are and who we belong to and lose ourselves not in the world, but in the wonder of God.
The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy. (Psalm 65:8)