July 2025
Empowering Student Leaders
What is Rush?
Rush is a summer conference for students, by students, designed and driven entirely by high school Rush Student Leaders. From speaking and leading worship to facilitating small groups—and even taking care of cleanup—students lead every aspect of the experience. There’s no conference more relevant to the life of a student.
Rush is open to all current 6th–12th grade students. We provide impactful experiences featuring devotions, testimonies, and worship times that meet students’ spiritual needs at every stage. Our mission is to build community, cultivate leadership, and inspire students to carry the gospel forward.
Dive into Rush to encounter truth, the gospel, and, most importantly, the living God.
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Guest Churches
Perimeter Students & Friends
What Happens at Rush?
Engaging Worship
God delights in our worship, and at Rush, we do it in lots of different and engaging ways. Our students will worship through song, dance, drama, games, or even through a video. It might get loud.
compelling Talks
From main sessions to seminars, students will hear, directly from student leaders, talks relevant to the life of a teenager. We believe hearing from a peer is both powerful and moving.
Peer-Led Small Groups
Each Rush student will join a peer-led small group where they will be able to go deeper into what they are learning—asking questions and digging into truths from sessions and seminars.
Missions
Part of learning to be a mature follower of Christ is learning to be His hands and feet. Community outreach projects all over the city of Atlanta allow students to exercise their faith and to experience what it means to share the love of Christ.
Free Time
Your group will have time to build community with one another through your choice of free time activities. We can suggest several, or you can organize your own.
Surprises
Rush is run by students … so you never know what can happen! From a surprise food truck block party to a glow-in-the-dark dance party to a 1000 balloon release, each year of Rush brings something unexpected!
What Happens at Rush?
Engaging Worship
God delights in our worship, and at Rush, we do it in lots of different and engaging ways. Our students will worship through song, dance, drama, games, or even through a video. It might get loud.
Compelling Talks
From main sessions to seminars, students will hear, directly from student leaders, talks relevant to the life of a teenager. We believe hearing from a peer is both powerful and moving.
Peer-Led Small Groups
Each Rush student will join a peer-led small group where they will be able to go deeper into what they are learning—asking questions and digging into truths from sessions and seminars.
Missions
Part of learning to be a mature follower of Christ is learning to be His hands and feet. Community outreach projects all over the city of Atlanta allow students to exercise their faith and to experience what it means to share the love of Christ.
Free Time
Your group will have time to build community with one another through your choice of free time activities. We can suggest several, or you can organize your own.
Surprises
Rush is run by students … so you never know what can happen! From a surprise food truck block party to a glow-in-the-dark dance party to a 1000 balloon release, each year of Rush brings something unexpected!
What does the Rush Experience Look Like?
Missed Rush 2024? We recorded our Main Sessions for those who couldn’t join us.
Want more info?
Guest Churches
Perimeter Students & Friends
Purpose of Rush & Student Leadership
In 1994, Perimeter students and staff decided that they wanted to “do something so great for God that it was doomed to fail lest He be in it” (Dr. John Edmund Haggai). They invited others to come alongside them to serve, build community, and learn about Him. They realized students could reach their peers in incredible ways. Today, student leadership has grown at Perimeter, and our students are able to focus on one area to serve such as storytelling, missions, facilitating small groups, and even setting up rooms for different portions of the conference. There’s something for everyone! Our staff sees the value in allowing the students to lead, and they walk alongside them, guiding them, and discipling them in all these areas as these students pour into other students from around the country. Our students start preparing for this as soon as Rush is over, and work throughout the year to develop ideas and put together this conference.