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About Leaders in Training SA
Youthworks’ Leaders in Training South Australia (LIT SA) is an awesome camp for youth in Years 9 - 12 in 2026 at Rymill Centre, Woodhouse Adventure Park.
You will meet fantastic friends and have a brilliant time, but it’s also pretty challenging. We are going to push you hard to think about your faith and how you can use your gifts for the glory of God.
The whole week is about growing you as a Christian, as a leader and as a servant of Jesus and His people.
LIT South Australia 2027
Sent to Serve
Over the course of camp, we will witness God at work as the good news of the Gospel spreads from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
As we look at the growth of the early church and the Holy Spirit’s central role in that work, we will be encouraged, challenged, and better equipped for the ways in which we have been sent to serve as part of God’s unstoppable gospel mission. Join us as we are challenged about Christian leadership and discover what it truly means to be Sent to Serve.
We trust and pray that it will be a life giving and life shaping week!
Register
Summer 2027
Friday 22 - Tuesday 26 January, 2027
Rymill Centre,
Woodhouse Adventure Park
(37 Spring Gully Road, Piccadilly, SA 5151)
Registration opens August 2026.
Ticket price $375.
If you love Jesus and are passionate about serving Him with your whole life then LIT South Australia is definitely for you.
LIT Daily Program
8:00 | Breakfast
8:45 | Connect Groups
Designed to help you dig deeply in God’s word and reflect on what you have been learning in the Gathering
9:30 | Time With God
Personal ‘Time with God’ to reflect and apply what we have been taught
10:00 | Teaching Target
Designed to help you learn some skills to share God’s word with others.
10:55 | Morning Tea
11:10 | Training
Designed to take you through a series of core training topics for leaders over 3 years of LIT.
13:15 | Lunch
14:15 | Free Time/Activities
15:30 | Afternoon Tea
16:00 | Free Time
17:30 | Prayer Groups
Designed to give you time with a smaller group of youth across stages so that you might share and pray together about your life, the world and all you are learning.
18:30 | Dinner
19:45 | The Gathering
An all in time for great Bible talks, singing, prayer and more
21:30 | Supper
Speakers
Al James
Al is a Youthworks youth ministry advisor which means he visits a different youth group every week and loves seeing youth being full members of the body of Christ.
Al is married to Susie and they have four children - Ben, Will, Heidi and Elsie.
Al loves a café with an “All Day Breakfast” menu and dreams of sleeping in long enough to need it! He challenges anyone to beat him at Mario Kart (on a SNES from c. 1991).
Church Partnership
Partnering with LIT South Australia
LIT South Australia seeks to serve the local church by providing a place for young leaders to be encouraged and equipped for ministry. We would love your church to partner with us by sending leaders and youth to LIT SA.
Sending leaders and youth together provides the necessary leadership to run a successful camp and a natural capacity to follow up and support the young leaders after camp. You can further compliment LIT SA by integrating the training from camp into your broader training strategy.
We understand that it’s not always possible to send a leader from your church. In that case, we would like to invite you to send your youth and let the larger Christian family support you as we collectively seek to equip and encourage our young leaders in training.
Please read our Church Partnership document to get a more complete picture of what we do at LIT SA and how it can bless your church.
If you are interested in talking further about how LIT SA might serve your church, please complete the contact form.
Leading on LIT SA
The opportunity to be part of God’s enabling and equipping of our young leaders at such an influential time cannot be over estimated. As a leader on LIT SA you will have four primary responsibilities:
Teaching the youth faithfully from the word of God through a Connect Group each day. You will be supported by resources and paired up with a co-leader.
Share your life and pastorally care for the campers in your Connect Group and spend time with them during the program and free time.
Help the campers from your church identify opportunities to use their gifts and the skills at church and school.
Be an example of godliness.
Most leaders are directly invited through our partnering churches who are bringing youth to camp, but if you are from another church and would like to serve then please read through our 2027 Leader Invitation and contact us at LiT.SA.Support@gmail.com before filling in the leader application form.
If you are interested in coming to LIT SA as a leader but have further questions after reading the leader invitation then please complete the contact form.
Ministry Partners
LIT SA would like to give great thanks to our ministry partners for investing in training young people to lead, both now and in the future.
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FAQs
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Leaders in Training was started by Youthworks to train young leaders to serve Jesus in their churches, schools and beyond.
LIT SA is being run by the LIT SA Committee in partnership with local SA churches and Youthworks.
Youthworks is an Australian Christian non-profit organisation and the youth ministry arm of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, headquartered in the Sydney CBD. It partners with churches and schools to mentor and disciple young people through ministry support, Christian education publications, teacher training for Special Religious Education (SRE) in NSW public schools, and running outdoor camps.
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LIT SA runs at the end of the Summer school holidays.
5:00pm on Friday 22 to 2:00pm on Tuesday 26 January, 2027.
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Arrival is from 5:00pm on the first day of camp.
Camp finishes after lunch on the final day at approximately 2:00pm.
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LIT South Australia will be held at the Rymill Centre of Woodhouse Adventure Park.
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If you’ve never been to LIT before AND in Term 1-4 of 2026 you are in Year 9 or 10 then you must start in Stage 1.
Even if you have been a Christian for a while, you are serving in your church and you have done leadership training through church and school we still insist that you start in Stage 1. Our program is designed to build on the previous year(s), so you will get the most out of LIT if you start at the beginning. It also means that those who have done Stage 1 before can have the best experience of Stage 2.
The exception to this is if in Term 1-4 of 2026 you are in Year 11 or 12, then you should book a Stage 2 ticket.
Only youth who have completed Stage 2 are allowed to do Stage 3.
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In short, No.
You will make new friends on camp and have time with friends from other stages during free time and The Gathering. We can organise to have leaders help you make connections at the start of camp if this is something you are nervous about.
It's important that you follow the instructions about what ticket to purchase when you register because otherwise it disadvantages the other campers who have come before.
If in Term 1-4 of 2026 you are in Year 9 or 10 AND coming to LIT for the first time then you must start in Stage 1.
If in Term 1-4 of 2026 you are in Year 11 or 12 AND coming to LIT for the first time, then you should book a Stage 2 ticket.
We don’t take any campers in Stage 3 who have not already done LIT Stage 2.
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This information is available in our booking terms and conditions that are agreed to when tickets are purchased.
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Yes! Free time each day and The Gathering each evening see all three stages come together, so if you have friends in other stages you will be able to hang out with them then.
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We allocate rooms according to gender for each stage, and then you get to pick your room groups from there. So if you are a boy and in Stage 1, you will be in a room with other boys from Stage 1.
There is some time to get to know other people from your stage before you choose your rooms, so even if you come to camp not knowing anyone you will have time to make new friends before you have to work out which room to go in.
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All tickets at LIT SA in 2027 are already being subsidised. If you need further assistance we recommend you talk to your church leadership to see if they might support you further.
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Our dress up theme for our final night together is “Sent to Serve”! Get those brains thinking now for some creative inspo!