Almost 2,000 students and their leaders were exhorted through the Word, encouraged with fellowship and entertained by bands and games during the final Tsunami Student Conference, held Dec. 28-30 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. 

Since the mid-1990's, California Baptist University students have worked to make the Tsunami Student Conference a success, according to one of the event's organizers. 

Cooperative Program giving by California Southern Baptist Convention churches during "this uncertain economic season" may have "closed in on a 'new normal'" in 2011, according to the CSBC chief financial officer.