On the afternoons of Sunday June 26th and Sunday August 14th, we would like to invite you to our next few St. Matthew’s Young Adult Ministry meetings this summer.  Both will take place in the East Conference Room. The East Conference Room can be accessed through the parking garage driveway and the glass conference room door.

Based on the discussions of those present on Saturday, June 4th with Young Adults around the Archdiocese, these meetings will seek to lay out the vision, direction, and formation of the St. Matthew’s Young Adults Ministry. Elements of these meetings may include: 

Vision/Direction:
• Determining the needs of the Young Adult community
• Discerning the gifts and charisms we have each been given; helping each other discern those charisms
• Fitting each person’s talents and desires into the Young Adult community needs 
• Keeping the focus of the ministry and its activities continually centered on our relationship with the Lord  

Formation:
• How to enable individuals to be actively engaged and take initiative even if they can only contribute a few hours, or are only in the area short-term 
• How to be inclusive of all, and create an environment where individuals are inspired to take initiative/responsibility for the ministry’s work 
• How to maintain continuity in the ministry’s leadership (perhaps a flexible core team) while remaining open and allowing new leaders to step forward and participate 
• How the Young Adults of the community can work together to make all this possible