Year / Speaker / Worship Leader[s]

1989 Chet McPhail / Robert Knowles
1990 Charlie Harvey / John Ferguson
1991 Bill Chapman / Chet McPhail
1992 Wayne Fevens / Chet McPhail
1993 Bruce Smith / Chet McPhail
1994 Steven MacDonald / Chet McPhail
1995 Chet McPhail / Chet McPhail
1996 Steve MacDonald / Chet McPhail
1997 Roland Hannem / Chet McPhail
1998 Pastor Chris Austin / Chet McPhail & Mark Lloyd
1999 Steven Fenton / Chet McPhail
2000 Scott Mealey / Present Reality
2001 Mike MacNeil / Ninth Hour; House band
2002 Chet MacPhail / Everman
2003 Jon Imbeau / Capstone
2004 Neville Gosman / The Penny Merchants
2005 Josh Loveless / The Penny Merchants
2006 Chris Austin / The Penny Merchants
2007 Rob Nylen / The Penny Merchants
2008 Mark Sypher / Life Support
2009 Allison Kirkbride / Tim Milner Band
2010 Mike Miller / Tim Milner Band
2011 David Sawler / The Silent
2012 Mark Miller / The Contact
2013 Lennett Anderson / Rekoncyle
2014 Brett Ullman / Jeff Somers Band
2015 Jeremy Marsh / Chelsea Amber & the Broadcast
2016 Mike Miller / Shiloh Band
2017 Mitch DeWare / The Broadcast
2018 Ben Woodman / The Informants
2019 Spencer Conway / Shiloh Band
2020 Cancelled due to the covid pandemic
2021 Cancelled due to the covid pandemic
2022 Matt Litow / Rock Worship
2023 Spencer Conway / Kingswood University
2024 AJ Thomas / Challenge Worship Band

Challenge is an annual youth conference at New Minas Baptist Church in New Minas, NS. Every year at the end of October over 450 students and leaders come for the weekend to be challenged to grow as followers of Jesus Christ. For more audio and video content please visit nmbc.ca
Challenge is an annual youth conference at New Minas Baptist Church in New Minas, NS. Every year at the end of October over 450 students and leaders come for the weekend to be challenged to grow as followers of Jesus Christ. For more audio and video content please visit nmbc.ca