Student Life
Student Life at Ventana revolves around four key ingredients—Community Life, Recreational Life, Servant Life and Spiritual Life—that help ensure a great experience for you, while affording the best environment for God to mold you during your time with us.
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Student Life- September 2010 (video)
Fall 2011 daily schedule (73.2 KB)
Community Life
Living in community is one of the greatest rewards and challenges we face as followers of Christ. With our own selfishness quickly exposed, the opportunity to extend the grace of Christ abounds. At Ventana, you will gain friends for life while you learn that “community requires commitment.” Our campus is nestled in a small, rural community in Baja of about 1,200 people. It won’t take time for you to develop friendships with the local youth and connect with authentic families that truly love the Lord and inspire you to see the world differently.
From walking the quiet and peaceful beaches of Ensenada to the bustling work camps of Culiacan, you will learn how to serve others by living, sharing and serving your roommates and those in the surrounding community. As you make the most of your life, you will head off to college equipped with the Christ-like character required to live with others.
Recreational Life
Recreation at Ventana provides needed entertainment and exercise, while allowing students to grow closer to each other and to God through His creation. We offer a variety of experiences that challenge students in a fun, friendly environment regardless of experience or ability.
From high country canoeing to surfing the mellow waves at our secret spot in Baja, you’ll have opportunities that will stretch and grow you physically, emotionally, and spiritually. You will return confident and motivated by a broadened world-view and a new vision for how you can lead and serve others.
Servant Life
Come follow in the footsteps of our Savior. As we partner with a local missions-oriented Mexican church, we will participate in numerous outreaches during our nine months together that stretch from the back yard of our Baja campus all the way down to central Mexico evangelizing the unreached people groups that come to work in the tomato fields of Culican. We promise you won’t return home the same.
Learning to love and serve others in various cultures is a core value that Ventana instills in students. Servanthood will take many different forms as we host different short-term mission groups from the states, partner with Mexican nationals on mission trips, and help host local outreaches to the women of our valley. Simply, come to Ventana and change the way you see the world.
Spiritual Life
“The worth and excellency of a soul is measured by the object of its love.” (Henry Scougal)
Ventana wants students to have God as their supreme love. We want students to leave Ventana and treasure Christ so much that they will joyfully serve Him every day of their life. That’s why students are immersed in an environment where they regularly meet God through His Word. We want students to be captivated by God as they study His living, active, and acutely relevant truth.
Much like we serve together, we grow together. So students study God’s Word together while daily engaging in service. Through staff facilitation and accountable relationships, students partake in honest, meaningful discussion as they interact with the truth of God’s Word.