About YAGM

Priority application deadline is February 15 for service in the same year. All applications MUST be received by March 1 for service in the same year. 

The ELCA Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM) program invites you to step out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself in a one year international mission service and learning opportunity. As you offer yourself in service, you will also learn more about yourself, your relationship with God, and your place in God’s world. You will make friendships across culture and language that will change the way you look at the world. You will be a part of a group of young adults who are open to being transformed by your experiences, equipping you upon return to provide a global perspective on issues facing the church and society.

As this is a program of the ELCA for developing servant-leaders, we ask that you have a relationship to the ELCA (either as an ELCA member or connection through an ELCA church college, campus ministry or church camp), are between the ages of 19-29, willing to receive the gifts of others as well as to share your gifts, participate in an intentional process of service and learning, and live at a subsistence level to help meet needs worldwide. You will welcome the opportunity to gain new perspectives on life and work and to build relationships across culture, race, language and faith. Through your experiences, you will witness to your faith by the demonstration of the love of Jesus Christ in all relationships, a faith active in love, learning and service.