YLGen stands for Younger Leaders Generation. YLG 4 is the gathering; YLGen is the ten-year journey that follows.

Beginning with YLG 4 in 2027, the next global YLGen 2 cohort will continue together through mentoring, discipleship, friendships across cultures and generations, collaboration, and connection with Lausanne's regions, Issue Networks, resources, and mission opportunities.

The aim is not simply to attend a global gathering, but to invest in younger leaders over time as they grow in Christlike character, friendship, and mission.

YLGen Canada is the emerging Canadian expression of Lausanne's commitment to younger leaders and intergenerational collaboration.

YLG 4 gives us an initial cohort of Canada-connected younger leaders and mentors, but the vision is wider than those who attend the gathering. We want to build a growing community where other younger Christian leaders across Canada can also connect, learn, pray, collaborate, receive mentoring, and contribute to God's mission together.

Over time, YLGen Canada will be increasingly shaped and led by younger leaders themselves, with experienced leaders and mentors alongside them. Lausanne Movement Canada will help provide the relational and organizational support that allows that community to grow.Item description

Participant support helps leaders get to YLG 4. The Canadian YLGen Pathway helps make sure they are prepared before they go and supported after they return.

It funds the communication, mentoring, storytelling, commissioning, and follow-through needed so YLG 4 becomes a launch point rather than an endpoint.

Yes. The Canadian Zeffy campaign includes fundraising pages for registered on-site and virtual participants and mentors. Donations made through these pages are received by Lausanne Movement Canada for the shared Canadian Younger Leaders Project scholarship pool.

LMC tracks fundraising associated with each participant and may take that fundraising into account when determining scholarship support toward that participant's documented and approved YLG 4 registration and reasonable travel costs. The participant page does not create a personal fund or guarantee an equivalent reimbursement. Scholarship support remains subject to eligible costs, available project funds, and LMC review and approval.

Funds not required for one participant's approved costs remain available for other eligible Canadian younger-leader needs and, as funds allow, global scholarships. Lausanne Movement Canada retains final direction and control over all donated funds.

Yes. Donations that meet CRA requirements are eligible for a Canadian charitable tax receipt. Lausanne Movement Canada reviews receipting eligibility before issuing receipts, including situations where a donor or someone related to the donor may receive financial support from the project.

Yes. Churches, ministries, mission agencies, businesses, foundations, families, and individual donors can support the Canadian Younger Leaders Project.

It provides a shared giving pathway so many parts of the Church in Canada can invest in this cohort together.

The Canadian Younger Leaders Project is administered by Lausanne Movement Canada through its Mission Education Fund.

Donor preferences are recorded, while Lausanne Movement Canada retains full direction and control of donated funds in keeping with Canadian charitable requirements.

Eligible donations receive Canadian charitable tax receipts.

Helping participants reach YLG 4 removes an immediate financial barrier. Supporting YLGen Canada helps build what continues before and after Brazil.

That includes mentoring, prayer, gatherings, communication, storytelling, leadership development, connections across generations and regions, and opportunities for younger leaders to collaborate and serve. It also helps create pathways for younger leaders who were not part of YLG 4 to become connected in the years ahead.

The goal is for YLG 4 to be a launch point for a growing Canadian younger-leader community, not an endpoint.