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SPLAT creates mystery road trips designed to disciple Christian teenagers who want to be challenged in their faith.

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SPLAT Youth Adventures creates mystery road trips designed to disciple Christian teenagers who want to be challenged in their faith. These high school students (and their parents) have no prior knowledge of their destination or of the activities planned. SPLAT students will learn to serve and worship God in difficult circumstances, without the comforts of their normal lives.

06/06/2026

Got requests for our 2026 mixtape? Drop a comment to hear your favorite songs in your van next week 😎

06/02/2026

We’re just really happy to be here 💛

05/28/2026

TEAMWORK 🤝

On SPLAT, “together” is our favorite way to roll.

From navigating unfamiliar places to building strategy, serving communities, solving challenges, and surviving long backpacking adventures 🥵, our trips are built around learning how to work as a team.

We believe some of the best things in life are built alongside other people. Not just chasing accomplishments and goals together, but learning how to care for one another well, put people over product, and grow through collaboration and community.

We want students to become people who communicate honestly and effectively, support each other’s strengths, step up when things get difficult, and understand that success means everyone’s involved.

Over the last 20 years, we’ve watched strangers become teammates, teammates become friends, and friends discover they’re capable of far more together than they are on their own 👏🏽

05/26/2026

ADVENTURE 🌎

Around here, adventure is one of our favorite ways we learn to trust God more deeply.

Whether that’s backpacking on the Appalachian Trail, cliff diving in Arizona, horseback riding through the desert, or throwing a party for brand new friends in a town we’ve never visited before, we believe there’s something powerful about stepping into unfamiliar places with open hands, calloused feet, and willing hearts.

We want students to become people who are brave enough to follow where God leads, faithful in new situations, curious about people who are different from them, and committed to caring well for the world around them.

For 20 years, adventure has shaped us into a community that values courage, wonder, stewardship, flexibility, and joy 🎈

05/24/2026

LEADERSHIP 🧭

On SPLAT, we believe leadership isn’t about being loud or in charge. It’s about serving others well, noticing who’s being left out, stepping up when something needs done, encouraging your team, and choosing courage even when things feel unfamiliar.

We want students to grow into leaders who are grounded in faith, confident in who God created them to be, and ready to use their unique strengths to care for the people around them.

For 20 years, we’ve watched students surprise themselves - leading church services and revival meetings, guiding teammates through tough challenges, speaking up for others with compassion, and learning that real leadership starts with service 💫

05/22/2026

PRAYER

For 20 years, prayer has been our “first thing” on SPLAT.

Before the miles, the challenges, the laughter, the campgrounds, and the learning, we pray.

Because as followers of Jesus, prayer must be our instinct. It’s our first defense. It’s an ongoing relationship with God that shapes every part of life. And watching students grow in faith to pray for one another, encourage each other through difficult seasons, speak in boldness and vulnerability, and learn what it means to depend on God together? It’s one of our very favorite things 🙏🏽

05/20/2026

SERVANTHOOD

At SPLAT, we believe our call is to love and serve the people right next to us well.

Over the years, that’s looked like throwing neighborhood barbecues and carnivals, putting our teammates before ourselves, running VBS and summer camps, learning to honor our own families, caring for public lands and trails, supporting English classes for our asylum-seeking neighbors, and discovering new ways to show up for our communities with humility, consistency, and commitment.

Because life and ministry are the things that happen in relationship. Side by side. Neighbor to neighbor.

For 20 years, we’ve watched students grow into leaders by learning how to listen well, work hard, care deeply, and serve with joy 🤍

05/18/2026

This year marks 20 years of SPLAT Youth Adventures 🎉

To celebrate, over the next couple of weeks we’ll be sharing more about the core themes that shape everything we do:

🧎‍➡️Servanthood
🙏 Prayer
🧭 Leadership
🌎 Adventure
🤝Teamwork

So stay tuned - the destination may be a mystery, but the mission never will be 🚌

05/07/2026

The adventure trips are awesome… but this is the part we care about most 🤍

Around here, we’re all about rides home, coffee chats, late night memes, prayer requests, college decisions, breakups, victories, hard days, and the life updates long past graduating from SPLAT trips.

Thanks for letting us be a part of your story 🫶🏽

p.s. tag a friend we’re gelatinous fruit

05/03/2026

📢📢📢 Check your email - SPLAT 2026 team roster is LIVE!!! 🥳

2026 adventurers, thank you for the vulnerability and thoughtfulness you poured into your applications. Your staff is praying for you, designing a unique trip to encourage and empower you, and counting down the days til we hit the road!

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Marion, IN

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