Today’s episode features Kenn Demoll, the director of the Youth and Young Adult ministry at St. John Catholic Church in Westminster, Maryland. He is a convert to the faith, and was called to ministry after college while thinking about becoming a police officer.
We discuss the challenge of “restarting” a young adult ministry, drawing in and retaining people, the importance of relationships, the grand vision of young adult ministry, how to help a priest get a ministry going, how to avoid the atmosphere of a desperate social/singles club, and more.
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Time Stamps
(00:01:15) Intro and Conversion
(00:06:36) Inheriting and Restarting a YA Group
(00:08:46) Drawing and Retaining People
(00:20:51) Why are Relationships So Important?
(00:26:46) The Grand Vision of Young Adult Ministry
(00:33:53) How to Help a Priest Start a YA Ministry
(00:40:01) Avoiding the Desperate Social/Singles Club
(00:51:44) The Hard One-On-One Conversations
(00:57:50) “Thank God I Did This”
(01:00:53) “I Wish I Hadn’t Done This”
(01:08:26) Be Bold
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