Yes, I am considered a youth, and I have a mission.

I'd like to tell you what Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is! Some of you might have heard of it before, some of you might not have. Hopefully I don't butcher it for you peeps that don't know.
YWAM is a ministry school that has bases pretty much all over the world. I, personally, will be going to the one in Arvada, Colorado. In every YWAM base they start you off in the DTS, which stands for Discipleship Training School, to learn more about ministry for three months. It is required before any further schooling. They have just the regular DTS, as well as those with a specialty (as I mentioned in my previous post) like Compassion, geared towards those that have a heart for the impoverished and are really seeking to spread the gospel to those affected by it throughout the world; Musicians (what I will be doing), for people that are more music-oriented; Multicultural, aimed towards those that straight up love other cultures; Boarders, for people that are into snowboarding, skateboarding - pretty much boarding of any kind (suuuper sweet); and several more. During that time, they will also have other schools going on (which I will get more into later in this post).
After those three months of training, they then send you out into the world to share the good news of Jesus Christ. Each base has a list of possible countries that you could go to, eventually narrowing it down to a few choices. However, they don't tell you the options until you're more into the school. In other words, right now, I have absolutely no idea where I'll be going for my outreach. There are several places around the world that are options for my base, but I won't know for a while. Trustin' Jesus! Hardcore.
After the outreach there will be a week of debriefing, and then... back to little Watertown, Minnesota I go!
Once you are done with the DTS, you can do a secondary school. There is a variety of options for schools, which are as follows: the School of Social Justice (I really want to do this one eventually), where they talk about the social injustices in the world and how to solve them; Art in Missions (pretty much self-explanatory); the School of Worship, in which each person in the school learns to write songs for worship and at the end performs one that they have written, and that is then recorded/published onto an album; and, of course, a lot of other ones.

I hope that this helps you to have a better understanding of what I'll be doing/what I'm getting myself into! If you'd like to look at the website for YWAM Denver, I attached a link on here for you. And if you have other questions, shoot me a comment or something. I would love to have some feedback from you. :)

YWAM's Motto:

To know God and to make Him known.
http://www.ywamdenver.org/