What is Youth Venture?

Youth Venture is a short term service program of Mennonite Mission Network that offers a glimpse into service and the world around us. Youth Venture is dedicated to helping youth and young adults explore God's presence in the world. It provides opportunities for individual youth to join together for a one to four week service/learning experience. Adult leaders participate as team members with the youth as they serve, learn and discover how they can become life-long partners of God's ministry of healing and hope in the world. www.mennonitemission.net/Serve/YV/
Participants are challenged to:

• Build relationships with God's people
• Strengthen their personal faith
• See where God is at work
• Discover gifts and talents in themselves and others
• Challenge assumptions about the way the world functions
• Explore a new culture or setting
• Catch a vision for mission and service as a lifestyle

Mennonite Mission Network (MMN) is the mission agency of Mennonite Church USA. MMN exists to lead, mobilize and equip the church to participate in holistic witness to Jesus Christ in a broken world. MMN's goal as the mission agency of Mennonite Church USA is that every congregation and all parts of the church will be engaged in God's mission across the street and around the world. MMN has a distinctively Anabaptist approach to mission. It holds evangelism, witness and personal transformation together with peace, justice and social transformation, believing that each of these values have an important place within the kingdom of God.

For information about who the Mennonites are visit www.thirdway.com/Menno/