Structure
Attendance is open to all youth aged 14 to 18. Sessions, which are primarily held in the United States, follow a common curriculum created by the LDS Church. Sessions take place during the summer months in order to coincide with the summer break practiced by many schools. The program is led by Latter-day Saint young adults who serve as counselors for the youth during the sessions. Many of the speakers, but not all, are selected from the LDS Church's Institute and Seminary programs or from the faculty of Brigham Young University and its sister institutions, BYU-Idaho and BYU-Hawaii. All United States and Canada sessions are organized and managed out of the EFY headquarters in Provo, Utah on BYU Campus, where it is part of the BYU Division of Continuing Education, with sessions elsewhere organized by local organizing committees and area authorities.
EFY states that its mission is to help participants "come unto Christ".
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