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 →

Larry Acosta is  Founder of the Urban Youth Workers Institute. While he has proudly passed UYWI’s leadership to Tommy Nixon, Larry’s vision for this next season of ministry is to train, mentor, and mobilize urban leaders to plant multiethnic churches. Larry’s claim to fame... Read More →

Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero is the president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, a coalition of Latino evangelical congregations and organizations committed to advancing the Gospel in the public sphere. He is also a pastor at Calvario City Church, in Orlando, Florida. Salguero... 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 →