Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM)
One-Year International Opportunity
Priority application deadline is February 15 for service in the same year. All applications MUST be received by March 1 for service in the same year.
The ELCA Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM) program invites you to step out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself in a one year international mission service and learning opportunity. As you offer yourself in service, you will also learn more about yourself, your relationship with God, and your place in God’s world. You will make friendships across culture and language that will change the way you look at the world. You will be a part of a group of young adults who are open to being transformed by your experiences, equipping you upon return to provide a global perspective on issues facing the church and society. READ MORE.
A message from Heidi Hagstrom, Director for ELCA Youth Gathering
We’re pleased to announce that the ELCA Youth Gathering is returning to New Orleans in 2012.
In 2009, ELCA youth went to New Orleans as guests. We return in 2012 as friends, citizens with the saints.
The theme, citizens with the saints, comes directly from the text around which the ELCA Youth Gathering is being shaped: Ephesians 2:14-20. That is the assigned second reading for Sunday, July 22, 2012, the final day of the Youth Gathering.
I invite you to look at the core values and prayerfully consider how the ELCA Youth Gathering might contribute to your ministry with young people, as well as how your young people might contribute to the church’s mission in New Orleans.
But the destination, New Orleans, is not the ultimate focus. We are shaping a service learning experience that will affirm young people’s welcome into God’s story through baptism, will help them draw closer to God by engaging in intentional faith practices, will train them to bear witness to Jesus’ activity for the sake of the world, and will arouse in them their vocational call to “serve all people, following the example of Jesus” (ELW pg. 236).
The journey of discipleship that is the ELCA Youth Gathering starts a year before teenagers come together in New Orleans. We will offer a series of trainings to equip adult leaders to be with young people in ways that lead to the outcomes for which we are planning and praying.
You can download and print the poster, or request one from us by writing to gathering@elca.org. Every ELCA congregation will receive two posters.
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Open a Youth Ministry MissionPlus Account! Earn interest on funds you raise for the 2012 Youth Gathering and other events. Your investment in the Mission Investment Fund helps build and renovate ELCA congregations.
For more information about the Youth Ministry MissionPlus investment and to request and application call 877-886-3522 or visit www.elca.org/mif. Or contact our local MIF representative, Paula Kitt at 773-682-2738 or email paula.kitt@elca.org. For a flyer to post in your congregation, click HERE.
