YAE COmmUnity Objectives & Commitments
By the end of spending one and a half years with the Young Adult Empowerment Communities, young adults will grow, be resourced, and rooted in:
Building Community: Experience and know how to build a compassionate, intercultural, loving, accountable community rooted in missionary discipleship which helps each other discern and recognize their power
Leadership: Learn leadership skills and practice them through integrating themselves within a community, listening to the people, being able to assess and articulate the realities of communities, and collaboratively work for change
Identity: Explore their authentic identity personally, spiritually, and societally
Relationship with God and personal calling: Know God loves them, has a relationship with and a plan for them, and is calling them forward outside of their comfort zone
Maryknoll Identity: Encounter Maryknoll’s charism through living mission through practicing service, global solidarity, social justice rooted in Christ
Being relevant church leaders: Prepare for building and leading 21st century church as missionary disciples with intercultural awareness and practice in social media ministry
Community Commitments
Each member of the Maryknoll Young Adult Empowerment Communities will commit to:
Meet monthly in person for a three hour evening session, and then engage also digitally with community prayer
Commit to a weekly service experience where you are willing to get to know people who are on your margins
Be an active member of the community through showing up authentically and compassionately
Be willing to get a little uncomfortable in order to grow, address societal injustices, and build a better community and world
Be willing to engage societal injustices with conversations of faith
Be engaged in leaning into leadership
Lauren