This is the answer that I have been searching for, for a long time. I still don't know.
After college you are at, in my opinion, a very awkward time in your life that the church struggles with ministering to, especially if you are single.
In college you are surrounded by people your age, you have roommates, you stay up late studying for exams with friends. You live and breathe people.
Post college, your world changes. You go to work and then go home. You have to search for community with others and most of the time it is not very successful. (at least with others in the same place you are at.)
So what is the answer? What is the ideal ministry for young post college adults?
Is it a 20 something ministry? Is it a singles ministry? Is it a college, career ministry? Where is our place in the church.
The church I work at just started a ministry that targets college, and anyone in their 20's. We will see how it goes.
I would love to hear what you think.
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Wow this a great topic.
I've been out of school for almost seven years now, and I'll be twenty-nine this summer. In the two churches that I have ministered in I have yet to find a ministry that ministers to me.
I don't fit the college ministries anymore. I haven't found a 20's ministry that didn't feel like a meat market, or where I didn't feel the "pastor expectations". And my single status makes many small groups of people my age awkward, the fifth wheel effect.
Usually the ministries struggle to find the right identity in an effort to meet everyone's need, and my personal needs aren't meet.
Now I know that my responsibilities drive me to be involved and excited no matter what, but at the end of the day, I feel left out.
I wish I knew the answer. Let me know if you find it.
I'm wondering if an "organized" ministry is the answer.
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