Emmanuel Community has had young people represented at World Youth Days since 1989, and their pilgrimages have included Youth Arise since 2000.


World Youth Day 2011

Emmanuel is currently exploring a pilgrimage to World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid, Spain in August 2011. It will include the Youth Arise Festival in Gibraltar prior to heading to Madrid. It is anticipated that further information will be announced by September 2010, and registrations will be accepted shortly after.


World Youth Day 2008

Emmanuel hosted a pilgrimage to World Youth Day in Sydney in July 2008. Our pilgrimage incorporated approximately 100 young people, aged from 15 to 60s! This pilgrimage was an amazing experience of grace, providence, community, service and the goodness of God.

Our pilgrimage included the Youth Arise 08 international youth festival in Brisbane (10-13 July) before travelling to Sydney for WYD2008 (15-20 July).

World Youth Day 2005

In 2005, EYO’s pilgrimage included participating in the Youth Arise Festival in Essen (Germany) with 40 other young Australians, before connecting with the other Queensland pilgrimages for World Youth Day itself in Cologne, Germany.

Two thousand young people attended the Youth Arise festival in Essen, representing twenty countries. This made it an excellent ‘preparation’ experience before encountering the immense international crowds at World Youth Day!

But the key element of Youth Arise is that it is an intimate spiritual experience, including speakers and musicians from across the world, who are currently actively engaged in youth evangelisation.