Slide presentation for the sixth session of MidAmerica-UUA's online course Youth & Young Adult Ministries. This session was primarily a review.

1. Youth & Young Adult Ministries
Session Six: Review

2. 2008 GA Young Adult
Empowerment Resolution
Each congregation was
challenged to find ways to
welcome & support young adults.
How are we doing?

3. 2008 GA Young Adult
Empowerment Resolution
Thinking about what we have
learned about human and faith
development...
what are the best ways we can
welcome and nurture young
adults?

4. Top 10 Suggestions for
Supporting Young Adults
• Ask
• Educate
• Invite
• Feed
• Worship

5. Top 10 Suggestions for
Supporting Young Adults
• Work for Justice
• Empower
• Adapt
• Support
• Staff

6. Course Outcome
By the end of this course, students
should be able to
design, implement, and assess a
developmentally appropriate faith
development experience (rite of
passage, worship service, service
opportunity, or leadership experience)
for youth and/or young adults.

7. Youth & Young Adult Development
• Early Adolescence (ages 12-15)
• Middle Adolescence (ages 15-18)
• Late Adolescence (ages 18-22)/Emerging
Adulthood (ages 18-26+)
• Young Adulthood (Late 20s-40)

8. Faith Development Experience
• Rite of passage
• Worship service
• Service opportunity
• Leadership experience

9. Competency
Overview
Structured Learning Experiences
Work Products/Portfolio Exhibits

10. Overview
Provide an overview of what you
know about this competency
area, and how you have integrated
your knowledge into your
professional practice. Suggested
length--and only a suggestion--is up
to one page.

11. Structured Learning Experiences
Reflection on:
Provide a paragraph describing the
learning experience and its value to
you (suggested length of reflection
[and only a suggestion] is 50-100
words).

12. Structured Learning Experiences
Integration in Work:
Provide a paragraph describing how
this has or will influence your work
(suggested length of reflection [and
only a suggestion] is 125-175
words).

13. Work Products/
Portfolio Exhibits
Brief description of each work
example (suggested length of
description [and only a suggestion]
is 50-100 words)

14. Work Products/
Portfolio Exhibits
Relevance to competency:
Provide a paragraph with each work
example that explains why you chose the
particular piece and how the piece serves
to demonstrate your competency in this
area (suggested length of each reflection
[and only a suggestion] is 125-175
words)

15. Questions?
Comments?