Last week marked the ninth annual ICMC since it's revival in 2005. This year the conference met on both the west coast and east coast of the United States simultaneously. Between San Diego, California and Orlando, Florida about 2,700 college students attended the conference. Amongst that number at least four countries were represented--truly keeping the "I" in "ICMC" (an international experience). While each city centered its classes around the theme "Bent on Conquest" (from Revelation 6:2) they celebrated their time together with different events.

On Wednesday night in Orlando, the ICMC teamed up with HOPE worldwide to hold a benefit concert called "Celebrate Freedom." The concert raised $3,200 to enable over 180 children in Africa to attend school. Learn more here:

On Saturday morning the conference in San Diego broke a world record: the world's largest lightsaber battle. In one large hall at the Marriot Hotel, the campus ministries fought each other (lovingly) with 1,200 lightsabers, 200 more than the previous record. After the battle, all of the lightsabers were donated to orphans. Later that night they held a semi-formal dinner and dance in the same room. The hotel laid out a decent sized dance floor for the students, but they probably didn't expect as many students to participate. Once the floor opened, so many disciples jumped in that almost every square foot of dance floor was taken up for the next two hours.