Young Professionals
I think there is huge potential to play off of the life stage of twenty-somethings and really meet some legitimate needs. What if we started our own "young professionals" groups. They could be by vocation. For example, hill staffers or journalists or ministry. But we view them as "roundtables" where we mentor emerging leaders in a variety of culture-shaping vocations. We view them as leadership development for people inside or outside of NCC. Maybe we bring in some people who can speak into their lives. That may be reinventing the wheel, which we don't want to do, but it may also touch a nerve ending. Or what if we did "conferences" or "seminars" that were targeted toward the unchurched or dechurched on topics that were relevant to their lives?
What if we did a quarterlife conference at the coffeehouse that just helped twenty-somethings deal with the issues they wrestle with. I've wanted to do something like this for years! I'm speaking to about three hundred twenty-somethings at a similar conference in Pennsylvania next month. We need something like that in DC. We could even start small groups out of that conference. I'm so passionate about helping twenty-somethings that I'd love to invest my time and energy into it. I have a heart for graduating seniors and twixters! I think that is what motivated me to write ID: The True You. And that is what is motivating another book to help twenty-something navigate the third decade. The stakes are so high! We make most of our major decisions in our twenties and spend the rest of our lives managing those decisions. We need an alternate to the quarterlife crisis. It's an awesome book, but it is spiritually-neutered.
I met with a guy today who told me about how a group of five guys who started a young professionals group in Washington State. It was attracting a hundred people in no time via word of mouth and word of mouse. The evites are forwarded fifteen times because it is such a vast network! I think we're already the church for twenty-somethings based on demography, but we can take it to another level. This is "the" felt need for this generation. They need help with choices and transitions and relationships and occupations and identity and boundaries and finances and spirituality. They are trying to find themselves. And the only way to find yourself is to find God. God is the key that unlocks all those other doors. I think the coffeehouse would be an awesome venue for a "young professionals" group that could meet over lunch or dinner. If we did a lunch group downstairs, we'd have a captive audience :)
By the way, I love one idea the group in Washington State is planning--a party at an airport hanger. I've never been to one of those :) But it sounds like fun.
What if we did a quarterlife conference at the coffeehouse that just helped twenty-somethings deal with the issues they wrestle with. I've wanted to do something like this for years! I'm speaking to about three hundred twenty-somethings at a similar conference in Pennsylvania next month. We need something like that in DC. We could even start small groups out of that conference. I'm so passionate about helping twenty-somethings that I'd love to invest my time and energy into it. I have a heart for graduating seniors and twixters! I think that is what motivated me to write ID: The True You. And that is what is motivating another book to help twenty-something navigate the third decade. The stakes are so high! We make most of our major decisions in our twenties and spend the rest of our lives managing those decisions. We need an alternate to the quarterlife crisis. It's an awesome book, but it is spiritually-neutered.
I met with a guy today who told me about how a group of five guys who started a young professionals group in Washington State. It was attracting a hundred people in no time via word of mouth and word of mouse. The evites are forwarded fifteen times because it is such a vast network! I think we're already the church for twenty-somethings based on demography, but we can take it to another level. This is "the" felt need for this generation. They need help with choices and transitions and relationships and occupations and identity and boundaries and finances and spirituality. They are trying to find themselves. And the only way to find yourself is to find God. God is the key that unlocks all those other doors. I think the coffeehouse would be an awesome venue for a "young professionals" group that could meet over lunch or dinner. If we did a lunch group downstairs, we'd have a captive audience :)
By the way, I love one idea the group in Washington State is planning--a party at an airport hanger. I've never been to one of those :) But it sounds like fun.
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