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Effective ministry provides young adults with constructive opportunities to ask questions and to discover answers present in the teaching and tradition of the Catholic Church. Effective ministry with young adults engages them in peer ministry, as well as family ministry.
- Find Someone to Champion the Ministry. Someone needs to step up and be the leader. This could be a volunteer or a part-time or full-time staff member. I’ve seen churches where the youth or worship pastor also serves in the young adult capacity.
- Start With Prayer. Nehemiah, the King of Persia’s cupbearer, cried, prayed and fasted when he heard that Jerusalem was in ruins. When I started, I felt like Nehemiah, not knowing what to do.
- Build a Team. You’re on the winning team — God’s team! It comforts me to know that I’m never alone. At the end of the Great Commission, Jesus makes a great promise: “I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).
- Serve a Vision. So, you feel called to pioneer a new young adult ministry. That is awesome! It’s time to think and pray about what this ministry could and should look like.
- Churches Need to Feel called to Do Young Adult Ministry
- Ministry Must Be with Young Adults
- Young Adults May Be Wary of Your Church
- One More Thing
- Want to Get started?
When we ask ourselves why we want to do young adult ministry, the answer cannot be “because we want someone to save our church” or “because otherwise the young adults are going to go to that church down the street and not here.” The only right answer to that question is some version of “because young adults are important members of the Body of Chri...
The key part of this learning is the word with. Churches are used to having a group of people meet together (a committee, a task force, you probably know the name of it in your congregation). Then, that group comes up with a great idea and puts it into practice. Sometimes those are wonderful ideas that really take off, but what we have found is tha...
This is a tough one. Our churches are places of meaning and community. Many of us have found family within congregations and support during the toughest times of our lives. It is wise to remember that not everyone has such good associations with church, maybe even especially those who are Millennial or Generation Z. Many young adults can name speci...
All of the churches who worked with us were committed to taking risks and trying something new in order to minister with young adults. All of the churches learned a whole lot about themselves and about young adults. One thing each church could agree on is that making change in church and being part of a team leading change in a church is hard work....
If you are interested in starting to think about how to do a new thing with young adult ministry through your church, I recommend beginning with these two steps: 1. Find a team in your church who wants to work on this together and commit to it. Make sure your team includes at least one strong church leader who knows all the ins and outs of the chur...
May 15, 2024 · Engage your church's young adults with these 21 different young adult ministry ideas, events, and activities you can do together.
By connecting with dioceses and Catholic youth, young adult and Pastoral Juvenil ministry organizations across the United States, the USCCB offers a network of resources and information that can foster growth in the Church's outreach and ministry with our young people throughout the country.
Promote Activism and Involvement. Young adult Americans live in the wealthiest nation in the world, and even if young adults are not themselves rich, they can do their part to eliminate poverty and to promote human life and dignity through activism, volunteerism, and involvement.
Our young adults ministry gathers to help you continually strive to center yourself around the gospel in your everyday life. We care deeply about participating together in God’s mission, both locally and globally, and we take disciple-making seriously and literally.
