Best Practices

Finding Existing Opportunities

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Amy McEntee explains the importance of finding existing opportunities to build up your ministry. Find programs, communities, or partners that already exist to help you as you get your ministry off the ground:

Who are your potential partners? Opportunities could be events or programs that you can link into, such as working with neighboring parishes. Potential partners to consider: diocesan offices, nearby parishes, other denominations, campus ministries, young adult serving agencies, college alumni networks. What needs are going unmet in your area that you might be able to address?

Learn more about finding existing opportunities in the Essentials section of Young Adult Ministry in a Box.

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