Service Adventure

Explore and Lead

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.

Solidarity Scholarship Fund

The Solidarity Fund aims to foster equitable learning and service opportunities by addressing barriers for individuals who have financial need and are also from communities most impacted by a history of systemic oppression and injustice. Broadening the demographic profiles of our participants increases the likelihood of a richer cultural experience for all participants.

When funds allow, White allies committed to advancing racial and social justice with a financial need may also be considered.

Solidarity Fund details

Service Adventure values

Service Adventure Units

Colorado Springs

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).

Anchorage

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.