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Equipping Students

At Asbury University we believe that high school students can be great, Christ-like leaders in the church today… and in the future. Therefore, we have developed Youth Becoming Leaders to equip and train high school students for serving and leading in the Church. YBL trains leaders through immersion in Christian community, engagement in a community leadership project, and facilitating a mentor relationship in their home community.

The purpose of the Youth Becoming Leaders: High School Christian Leadership and Global Transformation Institute is to equip High School students to lead and serve in a complex global society.

The Need

The world needs better leaders who can think, learn, and initiate change. Although we need strong leaders in all callings, there is a shortage of young people in ministry and preparing for ministry. In a world that desperately needs the church and strong Christian leadership, there is a coming vacancy.

The world needs leaders who…. 

• withhold a theologically grounded and informed perspective in the church to initiate this change.
• think, learn, and initiate change. 

Church and Community Impact

Each student who is a part of YBL develops a ministry project that they take back and start in their home community. Each project partners with the student’s church, mentor, and community but is most developed under the student’s leadership. The projects help students learn to assess the needs of their community, partner with others, work with their gifts and dreams, and develop their leadership skills through the project. 

Some ministry projects from past years:

• Student started his own nonprofit organization to recruit other high school students to visit people in area hospitals.
• Student started a ministry to at-risk children and families in her neighborhood.
• Student started a ministry partnering area churches with refugees.

What kind of impact could a student have in your church or community?

Asbury is uniquely equipped

The mission of Asbury University, as a Christian Liberal Arts University in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, is to equip men and women, through a commitment to academic excellence and spiritual vitality, for a lifetime of learning, leadership and service to the professions, society, the family and the Church, thereby preparing them to engage their cultures and advance the cause of Christ around the world.

We believe in young people. We believe that young people can be leaders both NOW and in the future. Asbury’s history is that of preparing and sending young people into the world to be leaders. From E. Stanley Jones, the famous missionary to India, to the Asbury revival of 1970, to the current wave of Asbury students serving Christ all over the world, Asbury has played a prominent role in the preparation of people for ministry to the significant issues of the world.