What does it mean to register my host site with the designation of “Site License [not “Open to Community”/“Closed”]”?

All host sites pay a $75 application fee (explained in the agreement you find when you sign up)

Site License…means that you are choosing to pay for the event for your students (at a discounted bulk rate, instead of the $35 full student ticket cost). You choose what payment tier applies to your quantity of students (see below) and then pay for the exact number of licenses you need.

Tiers: 10-50 students (you pay $22 per student)
         51-100 students (you pay $21 per student)
         101-150 students (you pay $20 per student)
         151-250+ students (you pay $19 per student)

Example: If you choose the “10-50 students” tier and then indicate you want to purchase 20 student licenses, then your fee will be $440.00” ($22 per student x 20 students).

[not “Open to Community”/“Closed”]…means only your students are able to attend the event at your site (no outside students). This is secured by your host site NOT being made available in our zip code lookup and by you giving your students the unique code for your location (which we provide for you) that they will input when they register online.

What are the pro’s of choosing this designation?

1. (for all host sites) We take care of registering the students for you!
2. You are able to provide a dynamic, interactive, live event for your high school juniors & seniors, free of charge to them (a godsend to their concerned parents).
3. Since it is a “closed” location, you know where your students are coming from and can tailor your local content to their needs and your philosophies.

If I choose this designation, how do my students register for our host site?

1. You will promote this event to your students and give them the unique code that you received when you signed up as a host site.
2. Tell your students to go to LiveAbove.com, click on the “Live Internet Event” icon and follow the links to register.
3. When it prompts them to enter the host site location, they will put in your code.
4. Then the screen will disable their need to pay the registration fee and will deduct 1 seat from your total # of seats (so that your site won’t overbook).

What does it mean to register my host site with the designation of “Site License [“Open to Community”/“Open”]?

All host sites pay a $75 application fee (explained in the agreement you find when you sign up)

Site License…means that you are choosing to pay for the event for your students (at a discounted bulk rate, instead of the $35 full student ticket cost). You choose what payment tier applies to your quantity of students (see below) and then pay for the exact number of licenses you need.

Tiers: 10-50 students (you pay $22 per student)
         51-100 students (you pay $21 per student)
         101-150 students (you pay $20 per student)
         151-250+ students (you pay $19 per student)

Example: If you choose the “10-50 students” tier and then indicate you want to purchase 20 student licenses, then your fee will be $440.00” ($22 per student x 20 students).

[“Open to Community”/“Open”]…means that not only are your students able to attend the event at your location, but also students in your community. Therefore, your host site will be made available in our zip code lookup for outside students to find. They will register on our site and pay their $35 fee, however. You will let us know how many extra seats are available.

What are the pro’s of choosing this designation?

1. (for all host sites) We take care of registering the students for you!
2. You are able to provide a dynamic, interactive, live event for your high school juniors & seniors, free of charge to them (a godsend to their concerned parents).
3. You are also helping other students in your community have the benefit of participation (but not having to cover their registration cost).
4. “Open” host sites get $10 of the $35 student’s registration fee sent to them for every outside student attendee, to help cover your costs and thank you for promoting this event. (You don’t receive $10 for your own student attendees since you paid for them at a discounted price already).

What does it mean to register my host site with the designation of “Student Registration [not “Open to Community”/”Closed”]”?

All host sites pay a $75 application fee (explained in the agreement you find when you sign up)

Student Registration…means that you are having all students register online and pay their full $35 registration fee for the event (as opposed to the “Site License” host sites who pay for all their students at a discounted bulk rate for their students to attend free). You will let us know how many seats are available in the room you are using, so that we won’t let your location overbook.

[not “Open to Community”/“Closed”]…means only your students are able to attend the event at your site (no outside students). This is secured by your host site NOT being made available in our zip code lookup and by you telling your students the exact way your location is named in our system (how you registered) so that they will input the name when they register online.

What are the pro’s of choosing this designation?

1. (for all host sites) We take care of registering the students for you!
2. You are providing a location for students to experience this dynamic, interactive, live event (a godsend to their concerned parents).
3. You don’t need to pay for anything, except the lunch for the students.
4. However, you will be receiving $10 (of the $35 student registration fee) sent to you after the event for every attending student, to help cover your costs and thank you for promoting this event.
5. Since it is a “closed” location, you know where your students are coming from and can tailor your local content to their needs and your philosophies.

1. Any students in your community that would benefit from attending this event, may be excluded if no other “open” site is available near them.

If I choose this designation, how do my students register for our host site?

1. You will promote this event to your students and give them the exact wording of your location name that you registered with.
2. Tell your students to go to LiveAbove.com, click on the “Live Internet Event” icon and follow the links to register.
3. When it prompts them to enter the host site location, they will type in the name of your location.
4. Then they will pay the $35 registration fee and our system will deduct 1 seat from your total # of seats (so that your site won’t overbook).

What does it mean to register my host site with the designation of “Student Registration [“Open to Community”/“Open”]?

All host sites pay a $75 application fee (explained in the agreement you find when you sign up)

Student Registration…means that you are having all students register online and pay their full $35 registration fee for the event (as opposed to the “Site License” host sites who pay for all their students at a discounted bulk rate for their students to attend free). You will let us know how many seats are available in the room you are using, so that we won’t let your location overbook.

[“Open to Community”/“Open”]…means that not only are your students able to attend the event at your location, but also students in your community. Therefore, your host site will be made available in our zip code lookup for outside students to find. They will register on our site and pay their $35 fee, just like your students will.

What are the pro’s of choosing this designation?

1. (for all host sites) We take care of registering the students for you!
2. You are providing a location for your students to experience this dynamic, interactive, live event (a godsend to their concerned parents).
3. You are helping other students in your community have the benefit of participation too!
4. You don’t need to pay for anything, except the lunch for the students.
5. However, you will be receiving $10 (of the $35 student registration fee) sent to you after the event for every attending student, to help cover your costs and thank you for promoting this event.

If I choose this designation, how do the students register for our host site?

1. You will promote this event to your students and give them the exact wording of your location name that you registered with (although they can also use the zip code search).
2. Your students (and outside students) will to go to LiveAbove.com, click on the “Live Internet Event” icon and follow the links to register.
3. When it prompts them to enter the host site location, they can look your location up via zip code search or type in the name of your location.
4. Then they will pay the $35 registration fee and our system will deduct 1 seat from your total # of seats, so your location won’t get overbooked.

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FAQ’s

What is the Youth Transition Network?

The Youth Transition Network is a coalition of over 50 national denominations, youth, college and military ministries which have united to provide resources to our nation’s annual 1.2 million graduating Christian youth, of which 70% ^* walk away from their faith (temporarily or permanently) after high school (“the loss of youth issue”).

^* LifeWay Research article, “Young Adults aren’t Sticking with the Church”, USA Today, August 7 ^th , 2007

What is the LiveAbove event?

LiveAbove is a highly interactive, internet broadcast event engineered by national youth and college ministry leaders for high school juniors and seniors to prepare them for what lies ahead in their transition out of high school. The event covers the changes, challenges and opportunities these students will have in college. There are a variety of topics, in short sections which include survey questions that the students text their answers and questions to the live site to be discussed. A planned lunch break gives the host sites the chance to have local college ministry leaders and Christian collegians there for a panel discussion with the youth while they eat. All the attending students let us know, in their registration which college they are planning on (or hoping to) attend and are contacted after the event by the college ministry leaders at that college.

What does the LiveAbove event cover? What is the program?

LiveAbove 2009 was a live 6-hour event that was broken up into many short, very interactive segments with a lunch break when local host sites provided on-site content in the form of bringing in college ministry leaders and Christian college students for a discussion panel with the students.

To see the program, click here

Who spoke at LiveAbove 2009?

The speakers were chosen for their passion for transitioning youth and their experience in their field related to the topic they spoke on.

LiveAbove was not a lecture conference but a fast-paced, relevant event with lots of video clips, music transitions, opportunities for small group interaction, mid-topic surveys for them to text or MSN chat their questions or answers for and a lunch break with the potential panel of ministry leaders and/or Christian college students to discuss the transition with. This is no longer than a typical school day and gives the students a lot of opportunity to discuss the topics and move around so that they won’t get bored.

My students have been to many youth events, what makes LiveAbove unique?

LiveAbove is a first-of-its-kind national webcast event that gives students a real look at the changes and challenges about to hit their life, motivation to keep their faith and a way for them to connect with college ministry leaders before the students even leave home!

Most students are in denial about the culture shock that will hit them until the day they are dropped off on their college campus. We will open their eyes with current college students’ stories, recent research and prepare them for the transition not only with ideas and resources we tell them about, but most of all…

With our LiveAbove website already being populated with over 4,700 ministries on over 3,000 campuses, it is extremely unique that we have the technology in place to capture each student’s preferred contact information and send it to each of the college ministry leaders that the students want to be contacted from at the college they are planning to attend when they graduate.

What is a host site?

Since LiveAbove is a webcast event, there will be a small, live studio audience at the main filming location, but the rest of the students across the nation will be viewing the event over the internet at a location that has their computer hooked up to a projector and sound system. These local host sites will register online, state the number of seats in the room where they’ll host the event, will have a few leaders moderating the local needs of the event, provide lunch for the attendees and will either pay for their students to attend at a bulk rate discount or have the students pay their own registration online.

What do I need to have/do to be a host site?

You need to register online and provide the below tech, volunteer and materials…

The technical needs are: a computer/laptop, high-speed DSL that your computer/laptop can be wired to (wireless connections may get dropped), projector, screen and a sound system.

Leader-wise, you need to have someone to coordinate the administrative details, someone to run the technical aspects of the event and someone to function as a local emcee to give instructions to the students.

You will need to provide seating (preferably movable chairs, which work better for the group discussions in the event), lunch for all your attendees, paper and writing utensils (for group discussion notes) and extra Bibles on hand for attendees who forget theirs (as will be asked of them).

Who pays for the LiveAbove event? Us, the host site? The student attendees?

There are 2 different ways to work out the payment, with 2 variations each.

Site License (Closed) : you pay for your students at a discounted bulk rate, so they may come free. Only your students can attend, which they will do with a special code marking them as one of your already paid attendees.

Site License (Open) : you pay for your students at a discounted bulk rate, so they may come free, but you also allow outside students to attend, who will pay their own registration online.

Student Registration (Closed) : Your students will pay their registration online, and only your students can attend. They will register with your location name, which will not be made available in our zip code search for outside students to see.

Student Registration (Open) : Your students and students from out in the community will pay their registration online, by finding your location in a zip code search and choosing you. We track the number of seats you have, so that your room will not be overbooked.

How difficult is it to be to host this event?

Not difficult! We manage the whole registration process (gather all the student information and payments, track the seating so you don’t overbook). You only need to register your location, find a coordinator, emcee and tech operator (see their duties below), provide lunch and potentially gather college ministry leaders and college students for a panel (this is optional AND we will contact them for you).

The coordinator only needs to get permission to have the room and tech items available, arrange for the room and lunch setup/teardown, check in students, get paper/pencils/Bibles to students who need it and pass out/collect end-of-event surveys (to input online or mail to us).

Your emcee will have very little to do since the webcast speakers guide the attendees through what they need to do. He/She will be there to help give instructions and gather group answers for some discussions.

Your technical support person will simply log into a test broadcast a week prior to the event and then make sure things are hooked up and ready to go for the webcast and stay there to help if something stops working correctly.

Should I invite my students and their parents?

LiveAbove is designed for high school juniors and seniors. It is possible for parents to register and attend the event at a host site.

We recommend that you have a group of students that is no less than 20, so that the small group break-outs have enough students to interact with. We also recommend no larger a group than 250 as it is very difficult to manage this many students breaking into small groups and getting their answers to the local event emcee.