UYWI 2017

Luma Haddad has been the Young Life Urban Area Director for the last 19 years and is Mutli Ethnic Southwest Divisional Coordinator. Luma works directly with teenagers and teen moms in Junior High and High Schools. She is a San Francisco native, lived in Amman, Jordan, graduated from... Read More →

Efrem Smith is a pastor, consultant, speaker, and author. He is passionate about life transformation, racial righteousness and thriving churches. Rev. Smith is the Co-Senior Pastor of Bayside Church Midtown in Sacramento, CA. He is the former President and CEO of World Impact. He... Read More →

Writer, singer, rapper, and producer, Christon Gray, first came to Christian rap through the Elevationists, and the group's album "The Necessary." After a solo album, "Even with Evil with Me," he became part of W.L.A.K. (We Live As Kings), releasing "W.L.A.K." His second solo album... Read More →

Icy Ice is an original member of the world renown DJ group, The World Famous Beat Junkies. He is an artist and entrepreneur, whose resume spans over two decades of performing on the world’s biggest stages, and gracing the airwaves on several of LA’s Top Radio Stations. Icy Ice’s... Read More →

Joshua Chavez Band leads worship at conferences, churches, and camps throughout Southern California and the USA, including UYWI, RELOAD, Turn Your Campus, Promise Keepers, and Franklin Graham's Festivals of Hope. Described as dynamic, eclectic, passionate, and energetic, they engage... Read More →

The Cypher Spot is a Christian Hip Hop Ministry Studio in Inglewood CA. Focused on using the elements of Hip Hopto bring glory to God. The studio provides classes and programs to the community and the communities around it, in the arts ofDance, Urban art, Lyric Writing, and Music... Read More →