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| Annual Report 2013

The word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.

— John 1:14 (MSG)

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The view from the Young Life Service Center in Colorado Springs is stunning. No matter what season, Pike’s Peak reminds us of God’s majesty and might, and evokes a sense of awe and wonder in us all. But today I’d like to share with you a different view. A panoramic view of Young Life. An up-close and personal view of God’s amazing movement through this mission. It’s my privilege to present to you the 2013 Young Life Annual Report.

I hope you will take a few moments to read this report and rejoice. God is on the move in the cities, in the suburbs, in small towns and all around the world. He is on the move in the lives of middle school kids, high school kids, college students, kids with disabilities and teen moms. God is on the move, and we’re working hard to keep up with Him through our Reaching a World of Kids (RWOK) initiative! Currently we’re reaching 1.4 million kids through more than 5,000 ministries in more than 90 countries. We’ve set our sights on two million kids by 2016, and we’ve set our hopes on Jesus. We’re counting on Him to keep moving and lead the way!

I’m deeply grateful for your partnership in Young Life. And I’m thrilled to present to you this report! No matter what season, God’s gracious movement evokes a sense of awe and wonder in us all. Please take time to sit back, relax and enjoy the view!

In Christ,

Denny RydbergPresident

INSIDE:4 MOVING TOWARD EVERY KID5 THE FIVE C’S6 MOVING INTO NEW PLACES8 MOVING INTO KIDS’ LIVES11 MOVING MINDS AND HEARTS

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14 REACHING A WORLD OF KIDS16 MINISTRY STATISTICS18 FINANCIAL STATISTICS19 CORPORATE OFFICERS AND

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

DEAR FRieND:

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Because we care about kids, we go to them in their own world. We do this so every kid will know we believe in them and want the best for them.

Young Life has developed a number of ministries to reach kids in their specific worlds …

WyldLife is our outreach to middle school kids, Young Life for those in their high school years, and Young Life College is our program for college and university students.

Young Life has more than 5,000 ministries in more than 90 countries around the world. Our multicultural and urban ministry, focused on kids in diverse cultural communities and those in economically depressed areas, is arguably the largest of its kind in the United States.

Young Life Capernaum is the name of our ministry with kids with disabilities and YoungLives is what we call our work with teen moms. In a partnership with Military Community Youth Ministries, Young Life reaches military teens through a program called Club Beyond. The Small Town/Rural initiative brings Young Life to communities of fewer than 25,000 people, and Amicus is Young Life’s student exchange and hosting program for international kids.

MOVING TOWARD EVERY KID

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... with a Five-fold approach

In Young Life, we create an environment where kids can hear about Jesus Christ in a way they can understand. That’s what the Five C’s of Young Life are all about:

Contact Work involves caring adults going to kids and spending time building bridges of friendship. It’s where we earn the right to be heard by listening to what’s going on in their lives.

Club is a high-energy celebration filled with humor, music and a life-changing message. Here, kids encounter the Gospel with the freedom to respond as they choose.

Our camps provide kids with the greatest week of their lives in a beautiful setting, where they enjoy food, fun and the greatest love story ever.

Campaigners is our weekly Bible study — a time when we help kids grow in their faith. We also strongly encourage them to celebrate this faith in a local church.

The local Young Life committee, comprised of caring adults, provides a firm foundation of financial, administrative and moral support for staff and leaders. Just as we listen to kids and their needs, the committee listens and responds to the needs of our staff and leaders.

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MOVING

Every year, we spend a lot of time and energy going where we haven’t gone before. Whether it’s a new school, area or country, we are passionate in our pursuit of the next kid. As the Lord leads, we faithfully explore each opportunity, because kids deserve the right to hear the Good News of our great Savior!

We are launching two new areas in New Jersey, which should serve as “beachheads” to help us reach other parts of the region. Ridgewood, located in one of the most populous counties in the country and home to more than 60

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high schools and one million residents, will be a great jumping-off point for neighboring communities. Princeton, too, will be a good place to use as a “hub” for the development of new work from Newark to the Jersey Shore.

“For the first time, there is a Young Life presence in every high school on Route 50 from Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Ocean City.”

— Dave Etling, regional developer

One road, 10 schools, along a 100-mile stretch on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. That’s a milestone we can all celebrate.

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Uganda is one of 14 African countries with established Young Life ministry and home to one of our new indigenous regional directors, who will help us pursue more kids. In the rural area of Pallisa, where public transportation is extremely limited, some of the volunteer leaders walk as far as 20 miles barefoot to reach out to kids. As we’ve already seen, some of these kids will move to Kampala, the capital, where they’ll attend college and help lead Young Life.

WyldLife is growing in Hawaii! Three hundred and thirty-four kids attended at least one WyldLife club this year under Lane Morikawa’s leadership. This new club averaged 104 kids per week. This middle school only has 900 students, and we have seen more than one-third of them! God is on the move!

— Randy Jackson, regional director, Hawaii

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MOVING... into Kids’ lives

Sometimes moving isn’t done on a large scale, but on a more intimate level. Each kid is deserving of this personal attention — from a camper with special needs to a city kid living in the midst of gang violence. It’s both fun and humbling to realize we never know whom we might be influencing — maybe even a Super Bowl-winning quarterback!

Here is a story of one of our Young Life Capernaum friends as told by his leader:

“On the last night we were at camp, my good friend Paul said, ‘I am going to miss this place. I am going to miss hanging out and talking about Jesus every day. I feel at home here.’ After I choked up for a second or two, I told Paul he can continue to learn more about Jesus each day and even talk to Jesus whenever he wants. Right then, I prayed with Paul to show him again how we can talk with God. Now that we’re home, Jesus continues to transform Paul’s life. We’re talking about how Paul can love his friends at school and invite them to club and camp next year. Paul has realized that once we experience the love of Christ, we want our friends to also see and understand life to the full.”

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From 2010 through 2012, YoungLives doubled the number of teen moms being reached. YoungLives is now reaching 12,960 teen moms annually, representing a 30 percent increase in one year. This year, YoungLives also celebrated 10 years of camping for moms and babies. This was our largest summer camping season, touching the lives of 2,500 teenage moms.

“What I’ve always loved and appreciated about Young Life is it’s not about what you look like or wear, or if you’re in the cool group. It’s just ‘we want you to come and have a good time.’ And the Gospel was presented in a way that’s not over your head, but with analogies and demonstrations that made you think, ‘Jesus is someone I could really hang out with.’ Matt [Hock, Rodgers’ Young Life leader] was great at using real-life stories to let us know what the Gospel is really about.”— Aaron Rodgers, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers and Young Life alumnus from Chico, Calif.

I am going to miss this place. I am going to miss hanging out and talking about Jesus every day. I feel at home here.

— a Capernaum friend

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“On June 30, she stepped off the bus with no idea what she represented. I was there with my wife, Carol, and 40-50 other field staff, camp staff and donors who didn’t want to miss this moment. If this girl would have looked closely, she would have seen a tear in every eye because of who she represented — kids we had been praying for ... for years. She was the first camper at Young Life’s newest camp, Carolina Point. At the end of that historic first week, she caused more tears as she stood with more than 45 others to say, ‘This week, I began a relationship with Jesus Christ.’ Holy ground.”

— John Vicary, field senior vice president

“Vincent came to Windy Gap, our camp in North Carolina, with a group of guys from Florida who were dealing with a recent gang-related killing of their friend. After hearing the message of the cross and spending 20 minutes alone under the stars, he found me to ask a question.

Vincent looked up at me and said with a sweet, sincere innocence, ‘Can I ask you something? Can I live here? I just feel so sinless here.’ On the last night, Vincent stood up at the Say-So and told the entire camp he had begun a new relationship with Jesus. He may not get to live at Windy Gap, but he went home with the God of the Universe living in his heart.”

— Brian Summerall, director of ministry strategy

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From the very beginning, Young Life leaders have been taking kids to camp. This year we flipped the process! Camp On Wheels is Young Life’s brand new mobile camping operation. All the fun supplies we can fit (tents, inflatables, games and more) are loaded into a trailer, which our Young Life staff and volunteers can drive all over Central America (the program will be available soon in other places around the world).

In 2013, Camp On Wheels traveled to more than 22 locations in five Central

American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) and more than 700 kids came out to the first Camp On Wheels club in San Jose, Costa Rica.

With 2,100 campers and leaders attending camp somewhere in Armenia this past summer, we are none too soon in moving forward with our recently purchased first camp here. Many months of prayer and planning have gone into this decision, and we anticipate the Lord doing great work here.

2013 was a year of movement in camping — literally! Our new initiative, Camp on Wheels, took the fun and adventure of Young Life camping to kids in Central America. We also ventured into new territories: Armenia now has a Young Life camp, and this summer we opened our 21st U.S. camp in North Carolina.

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Castaway Celebrates 50

yearsOver Labor Day weekend, nearly 300 people attended the 50th-Anniversary Celebration at Young Life’s Castaway Club in Minnesota. Since 1963, about 200,000 kids have been campers here, many of whom have met Jesus Christ and experienced transformed lives.

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In what may be a first in the history of the mission, this summer Kyrgyzstan Young Life held their inaugural Graffiti camp! “The kids painted all day,” Stass Maylenko, area director in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, said, “and each evening they heard a story about our God.”

This is just one more example of how leaders learn what’s important to kids and then invest in these activities. So while the kids painted visions by day, Maylenko painted visions of God by night. And as a result, these young artists learned that they themselves are the ultimate works of art.

Castaway Celebrates

This summer the first-ever camps designed for Young Life College were held at Rockbridge and Malibu. Students and college staff from 15 colleges attended, and many expressed appreciation for the opportunity to bring friends who had never experienced a Young Life camp in high school.

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GRAFFITi CAMP IN kyrgyzstan

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kidsReaching a World ofA major factor in reaching more kids is raising the necessary funding to send them to camp. One way we do this is through projects like the Campership Legacy Fund.

“Since 2009, the Campership Legacy Fund has provided more than $893,000 in financial aid to help 7,874 kids step away from the chaos and distractions of daily life and experience the love of Christ through a week of Young Life camp. These kids come from 20 states and 39 countries.

Also, nearly $43 million in end-of-life gifts have been committed and $3 million in current gifts have been given to help first-time unreached kids have an opportunity to go to camp. All of this from only 120 donors.

We continue to look for creative strategies to help more kids get to camp now and also continue to build a pipeline of gifts for the future.”

— Jeff Rudder, executive director of the Young Life Foundation

2013 represented Young Life’s fourth year of pursuing the goal of reaching two million kids a year through our Reaching a World of Kids initiative. To do this, we’re looking to mobilize more than 80,000 leaders and establish 8,000 ministry locations.

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initiative Giving

$179,153,93569%

AS OF SEPT. 30, 2013

GIFT TYPE TOTAL RAISED % OF TOTALCash and Commitment Payments $ 62,319,128 35%

Pledges $ 51,561,430 29%

Bequests $ 44,548,000 25%

Commitments Outstanding $ 20,725,377 11%

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Ministries and Kids Impacted

RWOK Begins 08/09

09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13% Growth

Since Base Year

Kids Involved Weekly in Club

U.S. 113,352 119,456 129,890 135,557 138,257 21.97%

International 33,332 46,771 46,696 60,287 77,700 133.11%

Kids Involved Weekly in Campaigners

U.S. 42,331 45,244 49,555 53,144 56,983 34.61%International 8,978 10,269 12,393 14,947 22,023 145.30%

Kids Impacted by Young Life1

1,008,262 1,103,149 1,196,159 1,228,082 1,434,869 42.31%

U.S. Life-Stage Ministries 3,769 3,818 4,039 4,297 4,500 19.40%

High School 2,612 2,611 2,751 2,911 3,034 16.16%Jr. High/Middle School 1,118 1,151 1,208 1,281 1,328 18.78%College 39 56 80 105 138 253.85%

U.S. Focused Ministries

Capernaum 125 148 167 173 210 68.00%YoungLives 89 99 165 218 236 165.17%Multicultural/Urban 644 620 622 673 753 16.93%Small Town/Rural 796 830 902 965 1,009 26.76%Military 7 15 17 22 17 142.86%Other 57 48 41 41 39 -31.58%

International Schools/Ministries

721 829 969 1,171 1,437 99.31%

International Military2 48 44 46 42 62 29.17%

Schools/Ministries Total 4,490 4,647 5,008 5,468 5,937 32.23%

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Staff and VolunteersRWOK Begins 08/09

09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13% Growth

Since Base Year

Young Life Staff 3,228 3,136 3,209 3,415 3,477 7.71%iStaff3 367 387 493 528 43.87%U.S. Volunteers 28,351 29,827 31,266 39,245 44,414 56.66%

Leaders 17,348 18,650 20,125 25,452 28,050 61.69%Committee and Ministry Support 11,003 11,177 11,141 13,793 16,364 48.72%

International Volunteers (leaders only)

4,016 4,566 5,273 6,347 8,425 109.79%

U.S. Camping

High School Summer Outreach Campers (Young Life)

36,819 37,752 38,539 39,073 40,060 8.80%

Middle School Summer Outreach Campers (WyldLife)

11,970 12,495 12,938 12,793 13,723 14.64%

Total Summer Guests4 75,955 81,303 81,549 82,982 84,662 11.46%

Young Life/WyldLife School-Year Campers

73,928 63,857 70,913 72,679 73,053 -1.18%

Total School-Year Guests5 156,441 152,282 167,538 174,481 165,528 5.81%

International Camping

Young Life Campers 22,765 27,963 34,117 45,343 55,327 143.04%WyldLife Campers 2,574 1,591 2,016 2,877 2,717 5.56%International Guests6 40,461 46,777 57,365 76,919 85,143 110.43%

1 Estimated, based on “club cards” collected by each Young Life mission unit.2 This figure is included in the International Ministries Total.3 iStaff numbers were not available prior to 2010.4 Includes all campers, leaders and adult guests who attended an Adult, Wilderness/Adventure, Campaigners, Family, High School Outreach,

Middle School Outreach, Leadership or Work Week camp at a Young Life-owned property during the summer.5 Includes all campers, leaders and adult guests who attended an Adult, Wilderness/Adventure, Campaigners, Family, High School Outreach,

Middle School Outreach, Leadership, School or Work Week camp at a Young Life-owned property during the school season. 6 Includes leaders accompanying campers and Young Life Expeditions.

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ASSETS 2013 2012

Cash and cash equivalents $ 31,727 $ 26,610Investments 81,985 72,462 Pledges and other receivables 9,775 9,963 Other current assets 3,170 2,956 Land, buildings and equipment - net 215,725 213,994

TOTAL ASSETS $ 342,382 $ 325,985

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $ 16,019 $ 17,444Notes payable 2,596 2,732

TOTAL LIABILITIES $ 18,615 $ 20,176

Net Assets $ 323,767 $ 305,809

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $ 342,382 $ 325,985

REVENUES

Operating contributions $ 191,806 $ 177,363 Capital contributions 11,088 3,646 Camp fees and other operating revenues 67,883 65,166 Investment income and other revenues 5,309 6,476

TOTAL REVENUES $ 276,086 $ 252,651

EXPENSES

Club ministries $ 156,347 $ 148,085 Camping operations 64,109 63,438 Management and general 24,578 23,162 Fundraising 12,404 11,504

TOTAL EXPENSES $ 257,438 $ 246,189

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $ 18,648 $ 6,462

Financial Statistics

Young Life and Subsidiaries including the Young Life Foundation

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position (in 000s)*

*as of Sept. 30, 2013

Comment: Our complete audited financial statements, along with the Independent Auditors’ Report, are available at younglife.org. Simply type “audit” in the search feature.

Consolidated Statement of Activities (in 000s)*

60.7%24.9%

9.6%

4.8%

More than 85 cents of every dollar given to Young Life goes to fulfilling our mission purpose.

— Cynthia Koerner, chief financial officer“

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Susan Hutchison Chair Washington State Republican Party Bellevue, WA

Nanette Ballbach Founder Moms in Prayer Radnor, PA

Sue Beré Retired Family Counselor Private Counseling Practice Neenah, WI

John Brandon Vice President of International Apple Inc. Atherton, CA

Malcolm “Mac” Briggs Chairman and CEO Andesa Strategies Inc. Allentown, PA

Francis “Steady” Cash Retired Chairman and CEO The Parnell-Martin Companies LLC Charlotte, NC

Jerry Colangelo. Chairman Phoenix Suns NBA Basketball and USA Basketball Phoenix, AZ

Carol Eaton, Retired Owner Eaton Designs Paradise Valley, AZ

Brooks Entwistle, Chairman of Southeast Asia Goldman Sachs Singapore

J.D. Gibbs, President Joe Gibbs Racing Foundation Huntersville, NC

Berto Guerra, Chairman and CEO Avanzar Interior Technologies San Antonio, TX

Bill Haslam, Governor State of Tennessee Nashville, TN

Bruce Hosford, CEO Hosford Ventures Seattle, WA

John Hummel, President AIS Futures Management LLC and AIS Capital Management LLC New Canaan, CT

Reginald “Regg” Jones III Managing Partner Greenbriar Equity Group LLC Greenwich, CT

Kevin McVaney Physician Emergency Medicine Littleton, CO

Curtis McWilliams Retired President and CEO CNL Real Estate Advisors Inc. Winter Park, FL

Harold Melton, Justice Supreme Court of Georgia Atlanta, GA

Susan Peterson Small-Business Owner Cabell’s LLC John’s Creek, GA

Boone Powell Jr. Retired President Baylor Healthcare System Dallas, TX

Chris Roberts, President Cargill Kitchen Solutions Minneapolis, MN

Mark Rodriguez, Owner The Growers Company Inc. R and S Mexican Food Products Inc. Yuma, AZ

Robert B. “Bob” Rowling Chairman and CEO TRT Holdings (Chair) Omni Hotels (CEO) Irving, TX

Denny Rydberg, President Young Life Colorado Springs, CO

Michael Stain Senior Vice President Citizens Business Bank Clovis, CA

W. Robert “Bob” Stover Chairman and Founder The Stover Foundation Walnut Creek, CA

Thomas L. Thomas Chairman and Director EJustice Solutions LLC Ann Arbor, MI

Paul Trible Jr., President Christopher Newport University Newport News, VA

Phyllis Washington Owner-Designer Phyllis Washington Antiques Indian Wells, CA

Mark Zoradi President/COO The Cook Company Burbank, CA

“In our 72-year history, Young Life has never been content to sit still. We’ve always been an on-the-move mission — from Jim Rayburn’s first club in Texas to expanding this year into Hong Kong. In 2013, we celebrated Denny and Marilyn Rydberg’s 20 years with the mission. We are thankful for how they’ve led us to the greatest year in the mission’s history for impacting kids. This year we grew by 16.8 percent, establishing relationships and sharing the Good News of Jesus with 206,787 additional kids worldwide. But we have no plans to stop there! With the dedication and commitment of our leadership, staff, and volunteers serving alongside committees and faithful donors — all provided by the gracious hand of our Lord — we look forward to doing even greater things in 2014.”

— Susan Hutchison, chair Young Life Board of Trustees

Denny Rydberg – president

Cynthia Koerner – chief financial officer

Steve Thompson – chief operating officer

Paul Sherrill – corporate secretary

Jan Morton – assistant corporate secretary

Dave Briggs – treasurer

Bryan Klotz – assistant treasurer

CORPORATE OFFICERS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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