Life On A Star I & II Conferences are family oriented and we invite you and your family to join us to spend a relaxing week enjoying the magic of Star Island.. We welcome people of all ages, lifestyles and beliefs. We offer a variety of activities each day along with time to sit back relax, spend time with new and old friends and renew your spiritual side.

If you have never been to Star Island or to LOAS, we invite you to come spend a week with us. We try to have new shoalers make up around 15% of our conferences each year.

Our conferences are seven days long, Saturday afternoon to the following Saturday morning. Our chairs arrange for a Theme Speaker for the week, Minister of the Week, workshop leaders and youth leaders.

Our children's program is usually held from 9:15 am to 11:45 am and 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm every day. We offer six different age ranges for the children's program, with two adults leading each group. In addition, we have a youth coordinator and a floater who help the youth leaders throughout the week. Parents volunteer on an occasional basis, for example, helping to row to the neighboring island and helping out during children's social hour.

Mornings begin with brave souls becoming polar bears for a dip into the clear Atlantic Ocean.  Our Minister of the Week leads a morning chapel after breakfast and before the theme talk. The Theme speaker has a presentation each morning for about one hour. After the theme talk, we offer a selection of workshops to choose from that last for about 1 and 1/2 hours. In the afternoon, we again offer a selection of workshops while the children's program is in session. Around 8:00 pm every evening there is some type of organized event: talent show, musicale, Pelican (hotel staff) talent show, etc. Every evening around 10:00 pm, we hold a candle-lit chapel service in the stone chapel that is lead by members of the conference. For the night owls, we usually have a Starlite Cafe, which is a coffee house type of gathering that goes until the wee hours of the morning.

The hotel has a snack bar where you can purchase lobster rolls, fraps, lime rickies along with traditional treats. During the week there are various activities that lend themselves perfectly to an island environment. One of the all-time favorites is a softball game between the conferees and the staff, with the only known left field that is located in a cemetery and fly balls there are ground rule doubles!

You may attend as much or as little of the planned activities as you wish. Some people try to fit as much in as they possibly can and others prefer to sit in rocking chairs on the hotel porch or on the rocks and just relax.

Our conference is run by chair's who are selected each summer for the following year. We have a coordinating committee that oversees the conference between meetings of past chairs, which is held every fall. We have an elected treasurer and an elected registrar, along with elected provisioners who are responsible for acquiring our supplies for "social hour" which is held every evening before supper.

Please visit our pages for LOAS I and LOAS II for specific information pertaining to our conferences this summer.

How to Register for Life On A Star Conference:

2008 Registration Instructions:
1. Complete Registration Form, Sign and Date
2. Enclose Registration Form , Self Addressed Stamped Envelope, ($0.41 postage) and a check: $150 (room and   board deposit  (for each person over 2 years old) plus $88 per adult and $68 per child (conference registration fee) payable to: LOAS.
3. Send to Patti Emmons, 104 Columbine Drive, West Grove, PA  19390  (phone 610-869-6410)
4. Wait for your acceptance letter in the mail, or notification that you are on the waiting list. (You will be notified either way by April 1, 2008.)

If you are bringing a child under the age of 18 with you (LOAS policy states that they must be related to you), you will need to complete a minor medical release form to mail in along with your registration form. You can find a minor medical release form to print out and complete on the Star Island website.

2008 Room and Board Rates: 

Adult rates (per person): $683/triple, $730/double, $883/single, $912/managers cottage, $778/motel double, $1291/motel single

Children rates (per person): age <2 $149, age 2-5 $344, age 6-11 $452 and age 12-17 $581

The above rates include room and board deposit, but do not include conference registration fee.
The balance of room and board deposit is to be paid in full on island during the conference. The hotel now accepts credit cards for your hotel bill, however, the gift shop, book store and snack bar do not accept credit cards.