Young Adult Ministry

My Documents

• Basics of Young Adult Ministry (2007, MS Word)
• Bibliography (2007, MS Word--Suggestions welcome!)
• Ministry with Young Adults (2007, PowerPoint)

Below are some documents I produced during my time as Director of Young Adult and Campus Ministry for the Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (1998-2007).

• Office Documents
  • Campus Minister Job Description Model (2003, PDF)
  • Mission and Vision (PDF)
  • Mission Trips: Policies and Procedures (2006, PDF)
  • Promoting Vocations among Young Adults (2006, PDF)
  • A Vision for Ministry to Higher Education in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (1999)
  • What's Happening in Young Adult Ministry in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston? (2006, PDF)
  • Young Adult and Campus Ministry webpage.
• Ministry with Young Adults (Materials for a 1 credit class I taught at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology, 2002; some of the items I've updated and posted at the top of this page)
  • Introduction to Generation X (PDF; notes taken from some books I was reading at the time)
  • Syllabus (PDF)
• Presentations and Writings
  • Catholic Campus Ministry: Yesterday and Today (2005, PowerPoint)
  • Campus Ministry in a Wider Context (2003, PDF)
  • Evangelization. Resource page I wrote for the Catholic Campus Ministry Assn.
  • Proximate Marriage Preparation with Young Adults (Part of a manual, "Marriage Preparation across the Lifecycle"; 2002, PDF)

Other Links

Seventh-day Adventist

• Adventist Christian Fellowship
• Adventist Intercollegiate Association
• C.A.M.P.U.S.
• CQ's World
• Cruise with a Mission
• GODencounters
• SaltyFish.net

Catholic

• Empowered by the Spirit: Campus Ministry Faces the Future (US Catholic Bishops' pastoral plan). I put this first became it is an excellent resource for campus ministers. See also The Gospel on Campus, which builds upon this with articles by many campus ministers.
• Busted Halo (Paulist Young Adult Ministry)
• Catholic Campus Ministry Association (Professional organization)
• Catholic Christian Outreach (A Canadian ministry)
• College Compass (An independent ministry of "students evangelizing students" whose board I served on)
• The Evangelical Catholic.
• Evangelizing Young Adults, Archbishop Michael Sheehan.
• Fellowship of Catholic University Students (An independent ministry using teams of volunteer missionaries)
• Instituto Fe y Vida. Resources for Pastoral Juvenil Hispana.
• La Red--National Catholic Network de Pastoral Juvenil Hispana.
• National Catholic Student Coalition.
• Sons and Daughters of the Light. US Catholic Bishops' Pastoral Plan for Young Adult Ministry.
• Starting Campus Ministry.
• Starting and Running a Young Adult Group, Matthew Pinto.
• Why Young Adults Need Ignatian Spirituality, Timothy P. Muldoon.

Other Campus Ministry Links

• Beloit College Mindset List (Understanding today's students).
• Campus Crusade for Christ
• Coalition for Christian Outreach
• College Union (United Methodist)
• InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
• Ivy Jungle
• National Campus Ministry Association
• The Veritas Forum. Below, links to two I helped organize.
  • UCSB 1998
  • Rice 2002

Other Young Adult Links

• 15 Things You Should Know Before Launching a Young Adult Ministry
• 7 Demographic Trends You Should Know About Young Adults
     (part one) (part two)
• 7 Tactics That Will Never Work In Reaching A Twentysomething
• Generations at Work.
• Most Twentysomethings Put Christianity on the Shelf Following Spiritually Active Teen Years (Barna 2006)
• Post-Adult Adolescence: The Three Stages of Being a Twentysomething
• Quarterlife Crisis.
• Synagogues That Get It. How Jewish Congregations Are Engaging Young Adults (PDF).