No-one can ever guarantee that an event will go off well, but provided that you have prayed, and prepared and delegated you should probably survive the experience! You may well want to get to the venue a bit early, taking a skeleton team of cooks and helpers with you (if you do go early remember to delegate somebody else to check that everyone makes it
onto the coach).

There are a couple of areas in which you may need to be a bit heavy-handed (if you are not confident about doing this yourself then it’s delegation time again). Firstly, try and ensure that those who are not having a quiet time do not disturb those that do want to read and pray. Secondly, do encourage everyone to get to bed at a reasonable time; it is sad to see people asleep in the back row of the meeting when you k now they stayed up chatting until 5:00 am. The decision is ultimately theirs, but the chances are that if they were involved in piggy-back races down the corridor at 3:30 in the morning they were probably disturbing those that wished to sleep. At the end of the weekend, and maybe at the end of each session, encourage people to spend a couple of minutes looking over their notes and reflecting on what has been said. Challenge them to think of one (just one) practical thing that they are going to do differently as a result of the
conference and (if appropriate) get people to discuss that with their neighbour. Some CUs like to include daily fellowship groups in the houseparty programme to facilitate this process of reflection.