National Youth Workers Convention
For nearly 40 years, hundreds of thousands youth workers have come to NYWC for training, encouragement, community, resources, and soul care.

2009 Dates
Atlanta: November 20 – 23

“Those guys have always been a little different,” commented a local business owner, “but in the last few weeks, they have really been acting off-kilter.” When we asked around town, almost every local citizen and shop owner had a comment to make about the peculiar, and some even described it as frightening, behavior, but almost all of them found it hard to describe exactly what was happening. Some said, “They just seem to be disconnected from the world,” while others commented that while they were not oblivious to the world around them, they somehow seemed impervious—aware, but unaffected, like the world was speeding by all around them but they were moving at a different pace.
Even more disturbing, the condition seems to be contagious. It has been reported that some customers, after spending an unusually long amount of time inside, have emerged from the store with a new outlook and have been seen to be acting very odd, some might even say foolishly. A recently visiting tourist describes a friend who seems to have succumbed to this infectious behavior. “John was just a regular guy, nothing strange about him at all. He just went in to get some change to feed the meter, and when he came out, he was barely recognizable. He isn’t interested in any of the stuff we used to do for fun anymore, and his priorities are all out of whack. He used to be the life of the party, but now his perspective is different. It’s like he’s a dead man walking. I’d stay away from that place if I were you.”
So what exactly is happening at Twice Born? No one seems to know for sure, but one thing is certain—no one is immune to it.