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 Developing Leaders for the Present and the Future

  Young adults are highly encouraged to become leaders in society and church life. There is a key ensemble for becoming a successful leader:

  training, support, and a  mentoring relationship. Young adult leaders are needed for our present and the future, for both society and the Church.

  Mentoring is a significant way in which we equip young adults with the values, beliefs, ideas, and learning necessary to be mature Christians.

  Young adults can benefit from a mentoring relationship connected with their career and job, especially when we share the values and wisdom

  that spring from our belief in the Gospel.  If you are seeking a mentoring relationship for yourself or others, you can:

• Establish a committee to connect older and younger adults in like professions in mentoring relationships.
• Reinforce the leadership role that each Christian is asked to undertake as a citizen through preaching and catechetical opportunities.
• Form discussion, support, or prayer groups for those in like professions and trades.
• Ask young adults to be mentors for high school youth, especially youth in confirmation programs and those from different ethnic groups, including immigrants who need to learn how to succeed in a new and different culture.

For more information about ongoing programs, contact your parish  young adult coordinator or call the Office for Young Adult Ministry at

858-490-8260.

Office for Young Adult Ministry     3888 Paducah Drive   San Diego, CA 92117     (858) 490-8260