Staff Associate

The program will help you qualify for deployment as an Area Director to build Young Life in another Canadian or international community. You commit to active participation in a fellowship learning community for two years where you will learn Young Life ministry skills, spiritual leadership and professionalism to effectively reach teenagers with the Gospel.

You build relationships with teenagers, presenting the Gospel of Jesus Christ incarnationally,always trying to bridge the gap between teenagers and Jesus. Teenagers will hear the Gospel in terms they can understand from someone who cares for them personally.

While being trained, you are responsible to recruit, train and lead a team of volunteer leaders, and build an effective new Young Life ministry in a junior or senior high school. You will beactive in all levels of contact work; be present and available to all kids in the school, particularly those of your own gender; and invest in key groups of kids. You will build a thriving club, take kids to camp, and initiate and lead a Campaigner group with excellence.