Youth Ministry

The Duke Youth Academy for Christian Formation is a two-week summer program for selected high school students to live in an intentional Christian community on the Duke University campus.  Days are patterned by worship through word and sacrament. Students reflect on scripture, study, serve, play, and engage in ancient and modern practices that nourish the life of faith.

Each summer, Duke Divinity School invites four to six youth workers to join its fellowship program to learn the academy’s model of youth ministry. Fellows will have opportunities to learn from internationally acclaimed Divinity School faculty, to reflect together on the implications of DYA practices for their own youth ministries and to continue discerning their own calling to ministry with youth.