The programs range from a few days to one year. They can take you across town, across North America or overseas. While the programs feature a service component of some kind, they emphasize learning about other people and other cultures. Young people are needed for three to six month travelling disaster response teams. The programs last from a weekend to a week in length.
Participants experience and discuss environmental and poverty issues while doing Christian service.
Service includes building and repair projects, working in homeless shelters or soup kitchens, visiting with the lonely, etc.