SERVE LOCAL

YouthWorks is equipping youth leaders like you with the resources you need to mobilize your youth ministry to serve in your own community.

We know that serving with your students on a mission trip might not be possible for your youth ministry in 2024. Or maybe your youth group is going on a mission trip this year but are still looking for more serving opportunities.

Our desire is to help you and your students serve safely in your own community. Local service has so many benefits and keeps your students active in service.

Ready to start the conversation? Click here to learn more about how we can help your group serve local.

Free

CURRICULUM

+ DAY OF SERVICE PLANNING GUIDE

Curriculum features:

• “How to use this” Facilitation Guide

• Theme Overview

• 3 Theme Videos

• Small Group Processing Guide

• Parents Processing Guide

• Social Media/Promotional Graphics

Planning guide includes:

• Day(s) of Service Guidebook

• Kitchen Guide and Sample Meal Plan

• How to Find Service Guide

• Service Orientation Outline

• Service Orientation Example

Developing Leaders is an essential part of Christ-centered mission trips. Our vision is that we work with youth leaders like you to develop student leaders on mission trips. After those student leaders graduate high school, our hope is that they would continue their leadership development by joining our summer staff.

If you’ve been on a YouthWorks mission trip, you’ve engaged with our summer staff and see how these ministry positions are challenging and incredible for leadership development. As they facilitate YouthWorks mission trips for teenagers, they…

Refine Their Skills

• Get real world ministry experience

• Develop skills like: organizing & planning logistics, public speaking, event coordination, networking, and teamwork/interpersonal skills.

Put Their Passions Into Action

• Engage in community-based work, immersing themselves in a new culture and community

• Lead service-learning experiences that focus on respectful service

• Help teenagers connect to the bigger story of the Gospel through building authentic relationships and sharing their faith journey

Grow In Their Faith

• Face big challenges that will strengthen their faith in God and in who God has made them to be

• Experience the joy of seeing God move in the lives of teenagers

• Encounter and daily reflect on the movements of God while leading in a ministry context

Do you know any college-aged leaders that you think would be a great fit for our team? Maybe it’s a previous student of yours.

Send Us Your Summer Staff Referrals

Here are a few of the key components we look for in each of our summer staff team members.

• Must be at least 18 years of age and one-year post-high school

• Actively pursuing a relationship with Christ

• Desire to serve the Church

• Able to relate to youth

• Model servant leadership

• Have a teachable spirit

• Respect for diverse backgrounds and denominations