!Explore: A Theological Program for High School Youth gives young people in the 11th and 12th grades the chance to develop leadership gifts.

Through the Congregational Experience and Group Experience, participants engage the world of theological ideas and foster a call to vocation in the church.

Group Experience

During the 16-day group experience, youth worship, serve and study. Participants become church with and for each other while exploring their own places in their congregations and in the church they imagine for the future.

Congregational Experience

The Congregational Experience comes before, after, or on both sides of the Group Experience. Participants serve in their congregation for 100 hours over a period of five or more weeks, working along side their pastor in a mentoring relationship.

!Explore 2013

• Group Experience dates: July 9–24, 2013.
• One group of 15 youth will be invited to participate. Their congregation contributes $500 toward logistics for the Group Experience and gives the participant a stipend of $500.
• Financial assistance may be available for participants who travel a great distance to AMBS or whose congregations cannot afford the participation fee.
• Youth receive an additional stipend of $500 from AMBS

"I believe pursuing God in the small parts of life will lead you to the greater things.  We must continually be aware of God and awake to his presence,  !Explore helped me (though I wasn't even aware of it at the time) to continue pursuing God in the everyday parts of life.  It also helped me learn a deeper trust as I continue moving forward without knowing the destination, but knowing the one who is leading." Emma Hooley, 2010 !Explore participant