“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit…” – John 15:5
Intimacy
Develop a closer relationship with Yeshua and learn how to worship and pray from God's word.
Unity
Work on creative projects with people from different backgrounds and cultures and see how the Lord will use it!
Boldness
Be courageous and creative. Don’t be afraid to tell about your faith in different ways!
Our theme this year is:
In Sync with His Heart
We’ll learn how to go deeper in our relationship with Yeshua in our quiet times and worship, so that from that place of intimacy with Him, we can go out in creativity and boldness, bearing much fruit for Him in this world!
For Messianic Jewish, Arab, and international teenagers ages 13-18.
Thursday, July 23rd, to Monday, July 27th, 2020.
Netanya, Israel.*
*exact address will be sent to registrants later.
Ends June 30th
Early Bird
Registration
₪450
Full
Registration
after June 30th
₪550
*additional financial help available if needed.
What Happens at the
Dor Haba Worship Conference?
Small groups:
As you arrive at the conference, you’ll go straight to your room to get settled in, meet the people in your room and meet your small group leader. You’ll complete your registration to the conference (payment and handing in the 3 signed forms) with your small group leader. They will give you your bracelet, name tag, t-shirt, and schedule. They’ll also explain things and answer any questions. You will meet with your small group (the people in your room) every morning before breakfast for a short prayer together and also in the evening before bed. Your small group leader is there for you throughout the conference to answer questions, help you, pray for you and talk with you. Each small group will get grouped with a few other small groups to form a group of 50. It’s with this group of 50 (leaders included) that you will form worship teams, have meetings, workshops, mealtimes, and free time activities. Only for the morning teaching will 2 groups of 50 join together and only in the evening worship times will everyone meet together outdoors in the amphitheatre.
Morning worship and teaching:
2 groups of 50 will join for worship and a teaching in the Auditorium. These teachings from scripture with discussion at the end will be on these topics: “In Sync with His Heart: The importance of staying close to Yeshua” “Creativity from the Creator: Your call to create and to share your faith”, “Keeping the Fire on the Altar Burning - how to invest time in Worship and Prayer in a world full of distractions” The worship, teaching from scripture and discussion in these sessions will be an hour total.
Worship Workshops:
These are each a half an hour long. Experienced worship leaders and musicians will share with you:
-How to prepare a worship set
-How to musically arrange a song in a certain style
-How to flow from song to song without it sounding choppy or ackward
-How to pray from scriptures and declare praise and truth in between the songs
-How to sing and play spontaneously (based off of scriptures)
⁴Group Instrument Lesson:
This year, the group lessons will only take place once during the conference on the first day. The rest of the teaching and learning will happen within the context of playing on the worship team.
In this lesson on the first day you’ll split up according to the instruments and roles listed above and you’ll learn the following from experienced musicians, singers, prayer leaders and sound engineers:
-Tips, tricks and techniques to improve your playing
-How to contribute and blend into the worship team with the role or instrument you’re playing
-How to listen to the other musicians and to the worship leader and how to be sensitive to what’s going on musically and spiritually (when to play loud, play quiet, stop..etc)
-How to use the sound equipment and how to interact with the sound man.
Youth Worship Teams:
Everyone coming to the conference can take part in a worship team. Each person needs to choose one of the instruments/roles listed below. This is the role/instrument they will play on a worship team:
Worship Leading
Prayer/Intercession leading (includes reading scriptures)
Voice
Keyboard
Acoustic Guitar
Electric Guitar
Bass
Drums
Darbuka and other Percussion
Running the sound
Worship teams will meet in the morning to put into practice the things they just learned in the worship workshop. If they want they can prepare a worship set of 2-3 songs that they will lead at some point during the conference, before a morning teaching or as part of one of the evening sessions. Every worship team will have several teachers with them who are experienced in 1-3 of the roles and instruments, so they can teach you tricks and techniques with your instrument as you play.
*If you have no experience whatsoever, nor desire nor interest to play on a worship team, lead prayer or run the sound, then you may be able choose the Discipleship and Sports Track that will take place at the same time as the worship workshops and team practices.
Interactive Media Classes
Each person may choose one media subject they want to learn in an afternoon class:
Art - pencil and digital
Photography
Video Production
Dance/Choreography
Drama
Sound Engineering and Recording
Free Time
In the afternoons, you’ll have free time to swim in the pool (if the Covid 19 restrictions allow), play soccer, basketball, skate, or hang out in the conference’s coffeehouse within your group of 50. Pairs and Groups of students, including young staff, can book a time to write and record in the conference’s makeshift recording studio with one of the conference’s sound engineers.
Sports
You and others within your group of 50 can go with a designated conference counselor to play soccer, basketball, skateboarding, water games or swimming.
Creative Projects
In your registration form, you can tell us what creative projects interest you the most. but ultimately, each group of 50 leaders and teenagers will need to decide together, which Projects they want to do. Then they’ll split into smaller groups accordingly. Art, Film, Dance, Music, Drama and Sound teachers will be there to help with the various projects.
Here are some Creative Project options:
-A band that will write a song together and record the song
-A band that will record a worship song “live”, audio and video, and make a live worship, music video,
-Production of a music video with a storyline to an already recorded worship song. (This project will require a student director, actors, videographers, and props/makeup/costumes coordinator.)
-Filming a “pilot” (example) for a television drama series that follows several Jewish and Arab Messianic teenagers and shows the persecution they experience at school and/or from their own people/neighborhoods.
-Dance team that will prepare several dances for performance on the boardwalk in Netanya on Saturday night (accompanied by teacher and conference counselors)
-Drama team that will prepare several skits for performance on the boardwalk in Netanya on Saturday night (accompanied by teacher and conference counselors)
-Band that will arrange several worship songs in a certain musical style (rock, jazz, mizrachi) for performance on the boardwalk in Netanya on Saturday night (accompanied by teacher and conference counselors)
-A stop-motion video animation about a testimony or a story that reflects our faith in Yeshua and the truth about God.
-A short, printed graphic novel that tells a story about the life of faith (a testimony story).
In order to do a certain project, you need to either have previous experience in it or it needs to be connected to the specific subjects you are signed up to learn at the conference (dance, drama, music or film...etc.)
“Beauty from Inside” ministry session for girls* (optional):
The person giving this workshop is a makeup artist. The girls will do each others makeup as she gives them tips and afterward, she will share from her own life a testimony of what God did in her life. Then there will be some discussion, ministry and prayer for each other.
“Walking in your Identity” ministry session for guys (optional):
This will be a time for the guys to meet, hear testimonies and discuss their identity in Messiah Yeshua and God’s calling on them as young men in this day and age. This will also lead into a time of discussion, ministry and prayer for each other.
Recording Studio Sessions:
We will be setting up one or two temporary recording studios there at the conference. There will be experienced sound engineers and music coaches available to help you record there. The studios will be available to groups who are doing a Creative Project that includes writing and/or recording a song and to worship teams from the morning Worship Team times who want to record something they wrote or arranged that morning. They will also be available, in a limited way during free time, to pairs or groups of teenagers and young staff who sign up beforehand for a timeslot in the studio. You can also sign up as a group for a timeslot in a music practice room with a music coach from the conference.
Open Mic Cafe:
We would like to set up a cafe at the conference with a small stage, refreshments and board games. A place where people can go hang out and relax during the free times. Before and after the evening worship meeting, it will be open for Open Mic. Conference registrants can sign up to sing a song they wrote or a song they know. Pairs and groups of people can do a song or skit or other performance.
*For health and safety due to the Corona situation:
-Refreshments will be individually packaged for each student (chips, juice, cookies). They will be handed to you by volunteers wearing gloves and using hand sanitizer.
-Only one group (up to 60 students who are already in small groups, workshops and worship teams together during the day) will be allowed in the cafe at the same time, so as to avoid mixing of groups at the conference as much as possible. We will let the small group leaders know when it is their group’s turn for Open Mic.
Evening Worship Time
This is the only time at the conference when the whole conference will be gathered together. These evening meetings will be held outdoors in the amphitheatre. We will have worship in Hebrew and Arabic, testimonies from various musicians and young adult leaders leading into times of ministry, prayer and more worship. We will have more in-depth teachings with discussion in the mornings, but in the evenings we want to keep the messages and testimonies short so we can have the option of continuing the prayer and worship longer at the end for those who want to stay and get prayer.
“Shine Your Light” Performance in Netanya:
On Saturday evening, a small group of students who choose this as their creative project, will go with their leaders and teachers to the boardwalk in Netanya. There they will set up a small portable sound system and the youth will perform dances, songs and drama that reflect the love of Yeshua. The idea is for them to use their gifts and talents to be a light in this world. We will pray for this group before they leave and the next day they can give testimonies from their time there.
Others can go with their small group leaders to the various free time activities such as sports or the Open Mic Cafe.
We will of course need to run the conference according to the latest guidelines from the Ministry of Health in regards to COVID 19. As the conference draws near, we will update you as to what this means and what this will require but for now you can look at our current COVID 19 Conference Guidelines (links to the answer in the above Q&A in regards to Corona).
We’ve allowed for more free time this year and more breaks between classes.
The evening worship meetings will take place outdoors in the open air amphitheater (where we had the Open Mic Night last year) instead of in the main hall.
Instead of the conference leading up to a night of worship led by youth on the last night, we’ll showcase our creative projects (song recordings, short films, music videos) to the rest of the conference and put them online. Some groups will go out to perform their dance, drama or songs on the boardwalk in Netanya, accompanied by their teachers and conference counselors.
Although we will not have the Night of Worship led by youth on the last evening, each youth worship team who wants, will still have the opportunity and responsibility to lead a worship time at some point during the conference. We’ll have plenty of time to do this, whether it’s before a workshop, a teaching or an evening meeting.
Students will have the option to “book” the conference studio or a practice room in order to have a jamming or recording session with friends of their choice, especially if they are writing a song. This can happen during the free times and with a conference counselor/technician, according to availability.
Instead of taking place only on one evening of the conference, the Open Mic Night will happen every evening, God willing, in the coffeehouse of the conference, next to the amphitheater area, before and after evening worship. We’ll also have snacks.
Got Questions?
-Everyone coming to the conference whether teenagers, counselors, teachers, volunteers or guest speakers will be required to take their temperature before coming to the conference. They must bring a confirmation with date and signature that they do not have a fever or respiratory symptoms. Temperature will also be taken upon arrival.
-During the conference, everyone, including staff and teachers, will be carefully monitored by Small Group Leaders in the rooms each morning and night for temperature and/or any breathing/coughing symptoms. At the slightest symptomatic behavior OR case of temperature 37 degrees or above, the person will be automatically quarantined and sent home. God forbid, if anyone at the conference goes home and tests positive for Corona, the conference will need to shut down immediately.
-Handwashing will be frequently required throughout the conference and hand sanitizer provided before each workshop, class, mealtime and free time activity. Swimming will only happen in small groups and only if allowed by the current regulations.
-Masks will be required for everyone, only to be pulled down for sports, eating and in their rooms with the people they're sharing a room with.
-Workshops, team practices, creative projects, small group prayer, mealtimes, the open mic cafe, sports and free time activities will be held in the same group of 50 people (teenagers and conference counselors included) for the entire duration of the conference so as to avoid too much mixing of people.
-For Morning teachings and worship, 2 groups of 50 will join together, keeping social distance in the seating. Only the evening meetings will be with everyone together but it will be held outdoors and in keeping social distance. Prayer/ministry time will also include rules for safety and health.
Unfortunately, yes. But in that case, anyone who has already payed for registration online will get a full refund. In our contract with the venue, the conference will only take place if gatherings of up to 50 are allowed indoors (currently, gatherings up to 100 will be allowed at that time) AND if gatherings of up to 200 are allowed outdoors. So yes, IF there is a dramatic change in regulations, the conference may get cancelled or changed to a different format.
Yes, a significant discount is available for families sending siblings and for families working in ministry and for those with financial difficulties.
Don’t let lack of money hold you back from coming to the conference. Let us know about it. Toward the end of the online registration form you can specify the reasons you need financial aid and the discounted amount will be confirmed to you before you click submit on the registration form.
Yes to both questions. After you submit your registration form you'll receive a confirmation message with a link for online payment. You can pay online right away or up to a week before the conference. In case of cancellation (family emergency, sickness, quarantine...etc.) you will receive a full refund. You may also pay by credit card, check or cash onsite at the conference upon arrival.
The conference is 450nis if you register before June 30th, and 550nis if you register after June 30th. Additional financial aid is available if needed. Simply request it in the online registration form.
The early bird price of ₪450 is available until June 30th, 2020. After that it will cost ₪550 (unless you have requested financial aid and we approve your discount).
Online registration will open on June 15th at 8:00. It will close when places are filled up. You simply click on the link provided on this information page to get to the online registration form.
By God's grace, the conference will start at 12:00 on Thursday, July 23rd, and will finish at 12:00 on Monday, July 27th.
At a guest house/hostel near Netanya. It is the same place it took place last summer in 2019. The exact address and public transport directions will be sent to registrants later. There will be organised rides from certain places - see later question about transportation.
All the required forms (Parental Consent, Rules and Regulations, and Health Form) will be sent to registrants by email. You can also view and print the forms at the link provided here on this information page.
These signed forms are mandatory and you won't be able to participate in the conference without them.
We will send a detailed list of what each person should bring to the conference over email to all the registrants closer to the start of the conference. We’ll also post it on this information page.
We’ll hold the conference in Hebrew and Arabic with English translation in headsets. We’ll worship mostly in Hebrew and Arabic, with only some English. Many of our conference counselors and teachers speak English as a first language, so, as needed, we’ll translate their speech into Hebrew or Arabic in the classes.
There will be buses leaving from various locations around Israel. If you would like to sign up for transportation to the conference you can do so in your online registration form.
There will also be rides provided from the central bus station in Netanya to the conference on 23/7, and to the central bus station in Netanya from the conference on 27/7.
18-23 year olds who fill out a registration form and are accepted can attend the conference as helpers or conference counselors as part of our “Young Staff”. These staff members can also participate in classes and meetings.
- We will of course need to run the conference according to the latest guidelines from the Ministry of Health. As conference draws near, we will update you as to what this means and what this will require.
- Instead of the conference leading up to a night of worship led by youth on the last night, we’ll showcase our creative projects (song recordings, short films, music videos) to the rest of the conference and put them online. Some groups will go out to perform their dance, drama or songs on the boardwalk in Netanya, accompanied by their teachers and conference counselors.
- Although we will not have the Night of Worship led by youth on the last evening, each youth worship team who wants, will still have the opportunity and responsibility to lead a worship time at some point during conference. We’ll have plenty of time to do this, whether it’s before a workshop, a teaching or an evening meeting.
- We’ve allowed for more free time this year and more breaks between classes.
- The evening worship meetings will take place outdoors in the open air amphitheater (where we had the Open Mic Night last year).
- Students will have the option to “book” the conference studio in order to have a jamming/recording session with friends of their choice, especially if they are writing a song. This can happen during the free times and with a conference counselor/technician, according to availability.
- Instead of taking place only on one evening of the conference, the Open Mic Night will happen every evening, God-willing, in the coffeehouse of the conference, next to the amphitheater area, before and after evening worship. We’ll also have snacks.
Feel free to email us with any additional questions that aren’t addressed here at info@dorhaba.com and one of our staff will get back to you as soon as possible.
Registration Form
We have reached our limit of registrants due to new regulations released from the government regarding COVID-19, therefore, we have closed registration early.
This does not affect your registration if you are already registered. We will be sending information to registrants soon.
If you would like to be put on a waiting list please email us at info@dorhaba.com.