Service Adventure
Explore and Lead
- Ages 17-20
Invest in faith formation and grow in leadership as you spend a year with Service Adventure. Live in community with others your age and with unit leaders.
Can a gap year change your life? Only if you're up for adventure!
In Service Adventure, you shape what’s next. Explore your faith and get real-world experience though placements with grassroots agencies and church ministries. Live in community with other young adults and engage in what God is doing in cities across the country.
Planning on college? Find out how a gap year with Service Adventure can make you a stand-out student.
Explore service in a new way
Mennonite Mission Network’s Service Adventure program is designed for young adults ages 17-20. Through a 10-month service term (August-July), participants live together in a unit house along with unit leaders, serve with local nonprofit agencies, and connect with a supporting church congregation.
Service Adventure Placements
Each Service Adventure unit community has a wide range of potential placements for participants to serve with. After applying, we’ll work alongside you to determine which placement is your perfect fit.
Why Service Adventure?
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Service Adventure Units
Service Adventure has units in vibrant communities across the United States. Check out the current units below!
Colorado
Beyond our daily work placements, we also get to serve by helping with the Mennonite Relief Sale (October), Beth-El’s Ten Thousand Villages Sale (November), with Interfaith Hospitality Network when it is at Beth-El (August and February), and at Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp during their Snow Camps (February and March).
Alaska
Service placements in Anchorage are varied and unique. Many participants have placements working with the homeless population in Anchorage, as the challenges faced by the homeless in Anchorage are substantial.
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