Global Impact Opportunity 2023

IMPACT OPPORTUNITY 2023

Dear Friend, God has given us a powerful tool and a tremendous opportunity through Developing Global Leaders (DGL). We are witnessing the Lord of the harvest raise up dynamic men and women eager to see their countries changed for Christ.

The DGL program makes a way for some of Young Life's best and brightest to stay actively involved in ministry while they earn their college degree. I invite you to meet a few students who are part of our newest class of Developing Global Leaders. Without a doubt, DGL is producing true world changers.

I am deeply grateful for the many generous friends who invest in these dynamic college students and empower them to bring the hope of the gospel to teenagers.

NEWT CRENSHAW YOUNG LIFE PRESIDENT AND CEO

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DGL

AT A GLANCE

DEVELOPING GLOBAL LEADERS

AREA OF STUDY

30

20

10

897 GRADUATES

0

34% ON YOUNG LIFE STAFF

7% PURSUING ADVANCED DEGREES

70% STILL INVOLVED IN YOUNG LIFE

50% ARE WOMEN

94%

STAY IN HOME COUNTRY

DGL GRADUATES

TOTAL TO DATE (03/2023)

DGL students are sponsored by generous donors who fund their DGL scholarship

HOW DGL WORKS Young Life identifies promising leaders who have what it takes to succeed in college in their own country

DGL students earn a college degree while serving as volunteer Young Life leaders in their community

YOUR GENEROSITY OPENS A WORLD OF POSSIBILITY

FULL 4-YEAR

DGL SPONSORSHIP $250/month ($3,000/year)

TOTAL $12,000 over 4 years

SPONSORSHIP

PROVIDES:

Educational tuition and fees Ministry and leadership training Small living stipend to cover transportation and other costs

DGL

BY THE NUMBERS

2009 MINISTRY MULTIPLIES TO 495 NEW LEADERS

99

DGL STUDENTS

REPRESENTING

21

COUNTRIES

EACH DGL RECRUITS AND DISCIPLES 5 NEW LEADERS

2018

2015 MIDDLE EURASIA

DGL

EXPANDS

400

ASIA PACIFIC LATIN AMERICA / CARIBBEAN

COUNTRIES YOUNG LIFE DIVISIONS

AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

+

APPROX.

8,000

99

2015

100

TAKE OVER

10,000 KIDS TO CAMP

KIDS IN DISCIPLESHIP BIBLE STUDY

LEADERS THEY HAVE RECRUITED

2009 - 2023 2009

4,134

ACTIVE DGL STUDENTS

EUROPE

TO

50 5

In 2009 DGL program launches with 99 full-ride scholarships awarded to international Young Life leaders each responsible to recruit 5 new leaders.

2019

DGL SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED 125

2023

200

Today, the DGL program is on target to expand to 200 scholarships awarded annually in 2023 across 70+ countries. Those DGL students, together with the leaders they recruit, can know 1 million young people by name and share the Gospel with them.

DGL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS' With the modest cost of university tuition in the developing world, DGL delivers high impact for every dollar invested.

OPPORTUNITIES Study at a college or university in their own country Receive concurrent YL Leadership Development Training Serve as a local YL leader multiplying ministry Be mentored by experts in their field of study

EDUCATION MENTORING LIFE SKILLS DISCIPLESHIP

DGL is the quiet engine that has fueled Young Life International

T

he DGL Program is the most successful leadership

pipeline I have ever seen – the importance of it in our part

growth for the past

of the world cannot be overstated. The Lord is using Young

decade producing over

Life to build his Kingdom and DGL students are the future

ten thousand volunteers

leaders, donors, and committee members who will make it happen.

and reaching three quarters of a million teenagers with the hope

It is vital that we raise up leaders to serve in the communities in which they were born and raised."

of the Gospel."

AL ANDERSON, REGIONAL DIRECTOR CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE

MARTY CALDWELL YOUNG LIFE CHIEF FOUNDATION OFFICER

MEET DGL GRADUATE THOMAS MBIBA 2009

2021

2022

Thomas applied to be a DGL student in 2017

Thomas graduated in December 2021 Midlands State University Zimbabwe with a Bachelor of Science, Psychology

Today Thomas works as a Treatment Coordinator for Zimworx/Support DDS

MAKING A

GLOBAL IMPACT SINCE 2009

As of 2022, DGL students have represented 76 of the 104 countries where Young Life has active ministry.

AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST Burundi Congo (DRC) Côte d’Ivoire Eswatini Ethiopia Ghana Israel Kenya Liberia Malawi Mali Morocco Mozambique Nigeria Palestine Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zanzibar Zimbabwe

LATIN AMERICA / CARIBBEAN Argentina Bahamas Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Peru Virgin Islands (U.S.)

MIDDLE EURASIA Armenia Belarus Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Moldova Russia Tajikistan Ukraine Uzbekistan

EUROPE Albania Belgium* Bulgaria Czech Republic France* Germany* Hungary Netherlands* North Macedonia Norway* Poland Portugal* Republic of Ireland* Romania Spain* Sweden* Switzerland* United Kingdom*

ASIA PACIFIC Bangladesh India Mongolia Nepal Philippines Vietnam

*While DGL focuses on students in challenging economic and developing world situations, students in developed European countries participate in the same program to bring light where there is spiritual poverty.

PARTNER WITH US

DEVELOPING GLOBAL LEADERS

View students still awaiting a sponsor

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

EPHESIANS 3:20-21

dgl.younglife.org March 2023