The Young Life Blog
Culture is changing. The next generation is searching for friends, hope, truth — and much more. We live at this intersection, offering insight, encouragement, and practical ways to show up in the lives of students.
Leveraging 400% Database Growth to Keep Graduates Connected Today’s young people crave authentic, in-person community over digital substitutes, but major life transitions like high school graduation can be hard. Consider this: Meanwhile, there’s a growing interest in finding a faith community. Young Life is positioned to meet them in these areas. As you may know,…
Explore by category
A purchase can be about more than what you take home. At the Young Life Store, every purchase helps us reach young people around the world with the hope of the gospel. The Young Life Store offers merchandise that reflects the heart and values of Young Life, helping leaders and supporters represent the mission wherever…
HOW ONE-THIRD OF OUR VOLUNTEERS SERVE One of Young Life’s best kept secrets (although that’s not the intent!) is the local committee. When you consider that roughly one out of every three volunteers is a committee member, you understand how dependent this mission is upon the thousands of caring adults who share ownership of the…
Made for More Than a Screen The Bible teaches us that we are embodied souls. The Hebrew word “nephesh” literally means throat but is translated as “body” in many places, and as “soul” in others, including Deuteronomy 6:4-9. It’s about the “whole of your physical existence” and how you interact with the world around you….
Advent begins Sunday, November 29. In Young Life, we know December is anything but quiet: Christmas Club nights, kids home from college, banquets, winter camp sign-ups, and Christmas parties! Advent offers a different rhythm though. For four weeks the church slows down to remember that God did not wait for us to find him. He…
Do you remember your early professional years?Do you remember how challenging, stretching, and at times, lonely they felt?Or maybe you’re navigating them right now. These years nestled between a person’s mid-20s to late-30s are not talked about enough, yet have a profound impact on a person as they grow and develop. At Young Life Community…
This is the final part of a conversation with Kimberly Nollan, Young Life’s director of Research and Evaluation, and Tiffani Hutton, Young Life’s research analyst, to discuss what the latest research from our Global RELATE project tells us about the lives, faith, and experiences of the kids we serve. Here’s where you can read part…
Editor’s Note: As we continue celebrating Young Life’s 85th birthday, we think it’s important to note that we’ve been reaching Latino kids for decades. In fact, the fourth country outside the U.S. where we established the work was Brazil, in 1963. Today we have ministry in 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Every year, from…
From television to the internet, to social media, and now artificial intelligence (AI), the major generations alive today have all had disrupting technology drastically affect how they interact with the world. As new technologies come along, you often gain something, but you also lose something as well. It’s tempting to react to this shift with…
A Place Set Just for Kids At Young Life camp, the invitation of the gospel becomes tangible and real. It’s a place where young people from all walks of life — many carrying heavy burdens, loneliness, or isolation — are invited to pull up a chair, take a seat at God’s table, and experience the…
When it comes to being born in 1941, we’re in good company. Did you know that global icons Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Placido Domingo, Wonder Woman, jeeps, and Velcro are also celebrating their 85th birthdays this year? Each began in humble origins, and over time their influence has grown to global proportions. Young Life, too,…
Real community. Nourishing faith. Transformative service. For high school students volunteering on work crew, and college-aged men and women on summer staff, the rich experience of working at Young Life camps has a lifetime impact. Throughout their time at camp, these young adults not only help create an environment where kids can meet Jesus, but…
This is the second part of a conversation with Kimberly Nollan, Young Life’s director of Research and Evaluation, and Tiffani Hutton, Young Life’s research analyst, to discuss what the latest research from our Global RELATE project tells us about the lives, faith, and experiences of the kids we serve. Here’s where you can read part…