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How do you get diverse groups of young adults together?
I am in charge of youth & young adult ministry in my church. The church's definition of young adults is slightly challenging, in that it goes from 18 - 40 year olds with young children...?
We have a couple young adults who are in community college, a couple who are recent college graduates, two couples in their late 20s without kids and then quite a few couples in their mid-to-late 30s and early 40s with kids of varied ages.
It's such a diverse group...but I feel like I'd be killing myself to try and run the youth ministry program & 3 diff. young adult programs. Any suggestions?
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I had started a class for the young married in our church. We had a guy who is teaching the class. Our church is starting to grow and the class has turned into a bunch of his friends and not the age group that it was set out to minister to. I have a meeting tomorrow with the pastor to discuss this class and getting something started for a college and career class a couple times a month on Sunday evenings. This stuff falls back into my lap, we do not have anyone to take over the classes. We have a primarily older church and I am running into trouble getting help from them. I hate to say it but we can only do so much. As I am finding if we get too burnt out we can not do anything well. We need more help. Lets keep each other in prayer..... |
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30 - 40 are NOt young adults... Youth 12-18/21 Young adults: 18-28/30. 30 - 40 please join the Church please... that's just wierd. You Can minister to 18-30 year old as you will minister on challenges in their portfolio. Try get young adults involved in leadership in the youth and can't help you with the rest. I am a young adult and I think perhaps an older couple, like Luke said. Perhaps one of those 35-45 year old should be trained and take it over. Enough life experience to minister to young adults I'd say... |
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Part of your issue is that you have at least 4 different groups in your group. College kids are different from grads (but they are your closest groups) which are different from married folks, which are different from couples with kids. (Even those groups w kids can be different) If you want, you could get them together but the occasion would have to be very creative. Maybe your best bet would be to facilitate each of these groups to mainly manage their own groups. You could meet with leaders and do what you can to empower them to lead. Let them take ownership of the ministry and you can be the point man and help them be the best group leaders. Don't kill yourself by trying to do everything. |
