The new semester is well underway, Ash Wednesday is past, and we are called into the holy and reflective season of Lent. Yet, as we move into this new year and new triennium, we are in a space of transition, cultural change, and experimentation, one that can easily drive us to follow our anxieties and move faster, work harder and strike out alone. It is exactly at a time like this that we most need a sacred community of contemplation, reflection, and support.

This Lent we invite you to expand your community of support; to reach out beyond your parish, your diocese, maybe even your province or our denomination; to engage in a broader community of mutual learning and support.

There are individuals across the church asking many of the same questions: How do we reach new communities of young adults? How do we foster intergenerational and interfaith relationships? How do we engage young adults in vocational discernment? How do we recruit young adults into leadership? Perhaps  you have other questions, but rest assured, you that you are not alone in your questions, your experiments, and your passions.

We hope the resources here will help you to explore these questions in community, to form relationships in which we can borrow and lend courage to one another (to borrow a phrase  from the Rev. Tom Brackett) in order to engage the Gospel and this generation in new and creative ways.

May this Lent be a blessing to you and may this community gathered in Christ be stronger for it.

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How do we effectively reach out to and minister alongside today’s young adults?

Changes in the life of the church are intersecting with the cultural realities of Millennials to present us with new challenges and opportunities for ministry. Join us as we explore new models for ministry with this dynamic and highly mobile population and celebrate their role in the life of the church.

Episcopal Campus and Young Adult Ministers of all stripes are invited to Chicago, June 26-29, 2013, for training, networking and celebration of our common work. Keynoter Diana Butler Bass will frame our time as she explores this moment in the life of the church. READ MORE >>

As Campus and Young Adult Ministers we are, in a way, professional (or volunteer) mentors and accompaniers. But where do we go for mentorship and accompaniment ourselves? The Provincial Coordinators for Campus Ministry and the newly formed Young Adult Ministry Council, in addition to being advisory bodies to the churchwide staff and advocates for our ministries, are available to you as resources. Whether you need to troubleshoot, to share your successes and failures, or just to bounce ideas around, they are here to share their experiences and expertise with you and help you find the resources you need.  MEET THE TEAMS>>

Dear colleagues and friends,

2013 marks the start of a new triennium in the life of The Episcopal Church. These three years will be the last of our Presiding Bishop’s current episcopate; they will see new ideas and plans for the structure of The Episcopal Church; they will be the first with a new Archbishop of Canterbury and a new President of the House of Deputies. 

Closer to home, they will see more collaboration between youth, young adult, campus, and lifelong formation ministries on the churchwide level. They will see some reduction in budgets, but also the expansion of the Young Adult Service Corps, and maturing relationships with the great work being done on the diocesan and provincial levels, and in networks like the Episcopal Service Corps.

READ MORE ABOUT PRIORITIES FOR 2013>>

Upcoming Events and Opportunities

LENTEN MEDITATIONS

Get your daily Lenten Meditation written for Young Adults and Students. You can also sign up to be a contributor to a future guide.

YOUNG ADULT AND CAMPUS MISSIONS CONFERENCE

Registration Now Open

June 26-29, 2013 in Chicago.

Join ministers working with 18-30 year olds across the church for continuing education, fellowship and our spectacular keynoter, Diana Butler Bass.

EPF URBAN PILGRIMAGES

March 2013

Apply today to be part of these four pilgrimages to New York, Boston, Texas and California to look at issues of homelessness, immigration and hunger.

DISCERNMENT: FINDING LIVES OF MEANING AND PURPOSE

April 4-7, 2013 in Marshall, IN

This year's midwest Student Gathering offered by the campus ministers of Province V.

PROVINCE VIII STUDENT AND CHAPLAINS GATHERING

April 5-7, 2013 in San Luis Obispo, CA

Every year students and chaplains from across this huge western province gather for a weekend of fellowship, worship and teaching.

PILGRIMAGE Of TRUST

May 24-27, 2013 in Red Shirt, SD

Make a pilgrimage to this incredible weekend of worship, teaching and fellowship, co-hosted by the brothers of Taizé and young adults from the Diocese of South Dakota and the Pine Ridge Reservation.

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ARE YOU ON THE MAP?

Check out our new interactive map of Young Adult and Campus Ministries across the church. To submit your ministry site fill out our survey.