LEADERS

Amplify is a six-day creative arts camp for young people aged school year 11 to 25 years, from across Aotearoa New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

Amplify 2026 kicks off with registration from 2pm on Tuesday 13 January and ends after lunch on Sunday 18 January. Transport is provided from the airport.

You are responsible for arranging and covering the cost of your own travel to Amplify. Please do not book your flights until you receive an email confirming your place at Amplify.

To ensure you can participate fully, please plan your flights as follows:
• Arrive by: 1:00pm on 13 January
• Depart no earlier than: 3:30pm on 18 January

Registration Fees:
• Earlybird: $260 (available until 1 November)
• Full price: $285 (from 1 November onwards)

Applications are closed.

THE HEART

There are three main purposes for Amplify.

Creativity: To encourage and equip young people in the creative arts and help them to discover how to use these skills in their corps and community.

Relationship: To help build positive connections between young people across our territory.

Discipleship: To strengthen and develop young people in their discipleship journeys.

THE WHAT

Across the six days, young people spend time learning in chosen creative fields, exploring their giftings and how they can use these to build the Church as well as positively impact their community.

We also spend time together in small groups each day, as well as free time, meals, camp-wide activities, church services, activities in our café and the Amplify Festival.

AMPLIFY FESTIVAL

This year, the Amplify Festival will be a crossover between Acoustic Night and Festival night — think food trucks, a stage, displays, and more, all in a relaxed, chill format! It’s a chance to express your creativity, give something a go on stage, or showcase your artistic flair through stalls and displays. It’s a celebration of who we are — get ready!

PARTNERSHIP

Amplify works best when we partner together.

As a local youth leader, your role is vital in helping make this an unforgettable and safe experience for your young people.

To help you understand how that partnership works in practice, we’ve put together an FAQ covering everything from applications and accommodation to pastoral care, leader responsibilities, and how we’ll support you throughout camp.

Check out the FAQ below to learn more about how we’ll work together to make Amplify a meaningful time for your group.

  • Local youth leaders are invited to apply to attend the event in the sole role of caring for their young people.

    This is called an application form for safety – everyone attending camp needs to ‘apply’ so a corps officer/centre manager can let us know they are happy for you and your young people to attend.

    Leaders will be accepted where appropriate and proportionate to their group size! Local youth leaders will also need to be up to date with their Keeping Children Safe.

    This option is only available for one leader per corps – your other leaders are more than welcome to attend Amplify, they will just need to do so as a camper!

  • Youth Leaders will participate in leaders meetings, and with all other camp wide activities and we ask that you partner with us in making this a great week for your crew.

    Youth Leaders will be in separate accommodation rooms to campers and will not be in creative streams.

    We will ask you to help with different events through the week: games, bible studies, cafe and general helping the camp run smoothly!

    This means, following guidance and ‘rules’ set out for camp, taking the lead on pastorally caring for those in your care, attending the youth leader hui and keeping us informed of anything we may need to know about.

  • We have an experienced team of around 40 staff each year that are there to journey with you – they do an exceptional job of caring, praying, chatting, learning and having fun with us all!

    We have a dedicated wellbeing team onsite to support young people, as well as older campers acting as dorm monitors in accommodation spaces – we take the care of young people seriously!

    In light of this, it is not a requirement to provide a leader with young people from your corps/centre but each young person in attendance will be allocated an adult that is their Ampli-friend or ‘go-to’ person – an adult onsite that will check in with them and pastorally care for them across the week as needed.

    If a local leader from your setting isn’t attending, we’ll let campers know who their Ampli-friend is in their delegate letter. This will be a Next Gen Team member, staff member or a local leader.

  • We know leaving a safe, spiritual community like Amplify and heading back to reality can be hard - we are keen to work with you better in how the Amplify ‘experience’ translates back to your young people’s home, corps and social life!

    If you want more information about Amplify or have suggestions on how this partnership could be improved – we would love to hear from you.

*All leader applications will need to be approved by your local corps/centre before you are fully registered for camp.