SAMS ministers to youth directly through discipleship and leadership training and indirectly through short-term teams to impoverished children. SAMS missionary Cameron Graham helps local Episcopal congregations strengthen ministries to young people as well as their outreach to local children.

Cameron Graham writes:
     My last trip to the dump this summer four Ecuadorian youth leaders came with us. They are all members of the church in Carmen Bajo, a desperately poor neighborhood in Quito. Afterward during our debriefing there were several 'normal' reactions to the poverty and filth and the children running around in it all.
      Then Alanso spoke. "I used to live in the dump," he said. As you might imagine, all became perfectly still as every eye turned to focus on him. This man, our friend, with who we all had been working and playing with the last three days, used to live in the dump?!?
      He continued, "I remember seeing the buses pull in and running to stand in line to get food. That food was our food for the day. It saved us. Today my life came full circle and instead of receiving today, I got to give. God has brought me out of so much, and although I do not have much to give, it was incredible to get to use my little to help. “
     

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones... Matthew 10:42