Summer Staff & Internship Positions with Youth Dynamics

About Youth Dynamics

YD Adventures utilizes powerful and effective adventure-based activities as tools to aid in the unlocking of adolescent hearts and minds – to promote significant personal, relational, and spiritual growth; for establishing and enriching relationships with self, others, God and His Creation, and to equip each participant to fully embrace the challenges of life. YD Adventures provides the technical expertise and equipment necessary for all activities and trips can be custom-tailored to meet the specific needs of churches, schools, group homes, and other youth related groups.

Summer Guide Position with YD Adventures

Join a dynamic team of youth ministers reaching out to teens through summer adventure-based ministry! We are looking for people who love God, have a heart for ministering to youth, and are passionate about the outdoors! You'll work as a part of the YD Adventures team and be a part of the larger team of 75 full-time and summer missionaries reaching out to teens across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

Most summer staff are cross-trained in guiding whitewater rivers, rock climbing, backpacking, ropes course facilitation, and for ministry to junior and senior high school youth. The Northwest offers incredible opportunities to share Christ in the midst of Creation. Evangelism, encouraging spiritual growth and building community are at the heart of our ministry.

Our summer ministry season is from late May-Aug, working well with university schedules. We hope to have summer staff hired as soon as possible.

Get an application, watch videos, and get more information by visiting our website: http://www.yd.org/about/jobs/summer_staff, by emailing: sland@yd.org, or by calling: 509-763-3161

Internship Positions
Leavenworth, WA - Youth and Adventure Ministry

Our highest goals for your time with us are that you gain a greater sense of who God is and who you are in Him. We believe that as Christians our life is our ministry. God will call some to vocational ministry, others to the marketplace, and others to work in the home. Our objective is to help you explore where God is calling you to live His love out to others, and to equip you for a life of ministry. You will have the opportunity to learn and grow in both a classroom and hands on work environment in the following areas:

•Personal Discovery and Development: Receive mentorship, serve others, live in community, examine your gifts and personality traits, step into various leadership positions, and press further into who God has created you to be.

•Bible and Ministry Training: Dig more deeply into God’s written Word, take time to be still and hear God’s voice, explore your heart for ministry, and take a closer look at your personal experience with Jesus as your savior and how to share Him with others.

•Wilderness Skills Training: You will be trained and equipped to serve as a guide in the areas of: white water rafting and kayaking, rock climbing, backcountry travel (winter and summer), challenge course, and horsemanship.
•Opportunities to Minister: Most will be as staff on our wilderness trips, carrying out the ministry content as well as guiding. You will also host retreat groups and serve at ministry wide events.
•Operations: Learn about and help operate an adventure and retreat based ministry through office administration, food provisioning, equipment repair, and facility projects.

Get an application, watch videos, and get more information by visiting our website: http://www.yd.org/about/jobs/summer_staff, by emailing: gjohnson@yd.org, or by calling: 509-763-3161