SWUUC Young Adult Ministry Leadership Intensives

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SWUUC Young Adult Ministry Leadership Intensives

• Inreach Workshop

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Inreach

• Building Healthy and Sustainable YA Groups
• Integrating Young Adults into the Congregation

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Fishbowl Exercise What do discussions about
YA programming look like in your congregation?
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Workshop Agenda

• Addressing Needs
• Starting a YA Group
• Service
• RE and Programming
• Worship as Inreach
• An Integrated and Interconnected Community

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Addressing the needs you already have

• Who is your congregation?
• Dont know what needs are? Ask
• Examples life transitions, parents, youth ageing
  out, young professionals, etc
• Focus on meeting the needs you have
• Good YA ministry is just good ministry

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Starting a YA Group

• Nuts and Bolts
• Different Groups Serve Different Functions
• Basic Programming
• Community Building Week, Month, Year
• Congregational Allies

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Service
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RE and Programming

• Types of Offerings
• Scheduling, etc.
• Small Group Ministry
• Childcare!!!

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Worship as Inreach

• Visible Participation
• Deepening UU Identity
• A Faith that Asks Something Now What?

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An Integrated and Interconnected Community

• Examples
• How To Thank a Young Adult
• No Reduced Expectations
• Potential Alienation Through Specialized
  Attention

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Summing Up Vital Behaviors

• Address Needs
• Starting a Group
• Service
• RE and Programming
• Worship as Inreach
• Integrating All Ages into the Life of the
  Congregation

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Questions?