I have decided to start collecting some online resources for ministry with young adults. If you know of something that should be added to this working list, please feel free to post it in the comments section of this blog. Thanks!
UMC Resources
–UMC Young Adult Network
-General Board of Discipleship, ministry with Young Adults
Research
-“Pockets of ‘Youthfulness’ in Aging Denomination”–report by The Lewis Center for Church Leadership
-“Survey of Campus Ministers”–report by The Lewis Center for Church Leadership
–Generation Me, research by Jean Twenge about people born after 1970
–After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion, Robert Wuthnow
–Demographics on Adolescent and Young Adult Health
-Ivy Jungle’s 2008 report: “The State of Campus Ministry”
Campus Ministry
–College Union, a website for United Methodists in Campus Ministry
–Ivy Jungle, an association of people who minister to college students.
Resources
–Reading List for Campus Ministers
-Young Adult Network Resources
–Review of First Year Out, a book about the first year after high school by Tim Clydesdale
-“A Long Adolescence in a Lame Direction,” by Chris Kiesling. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
