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Empowering Congregations to Engage Young Adults

Is your congregation eager to engage young adults—but unsure how to begin? This downloadable curriculum offers a three-month design sprint for teams who want to creatively connect with young adults in their communities. Through guided tools, collaborative games, and reflective practices, teams of 6–8 will design and host a local pop-up project. This approach empowers your church to reimagine ministry with young adults—centering their voices and cultivating mutual transformation. No facilitator is required, and the downloadable curriculum is available immediately after purchase. Additional learning tools will be shipped to the learner upon filling out an address form.

God is already up to something in your communities. How can you serve alongside young adults as a response to the love God is pursuing in your context?

How it Works:

  • When: Fully asynchronous  
  • Duration: 3-4 months (16-20 hours total commitment)  
  • Format: Downloadable curriculum with shipped physical tools 
  • Price: $349  

About The Young Adults Design Sprint

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Learning Goals

  • Identify and analyze young adult engagement in church and community
  • Engage young adults in meaningful congregational leadership
  • Build authentic relationships with young adults inside and beyond the church
  • Design and launch a pop-up project that centers innovation and connection

Who is the Curriculum For

  • Congregational leaders – Seeking actionable tools to connect with young adults
  • Young adult leaders – Wanting to lead innovative ministry in partnership with their church
  • Denominational staff – Equipping congregations for creative and contextual young adult outreach
  • Church innovation teams – Committed to experimenting with new forms of community engagement

What’s Included in the Curriculum

This design sprint curriculum provides a carefully structured, relational learning experience that equips small teams to collaborate with young adults and bring a local pop-up project to life.

  • Comprehensive Leader Guide: A practical, step-by-step guide designed to help leaders facilitate collaboration, center young adult voices, and steward the design process with care.
  • Research-Informed Insights on Young Adult Meaning-Making: Curated findings that illuminate where and how young adults experience belonging, purpose, and formation today.
  • Interactive Devotionals: Reflective practices that weave together theology, hospitality, encouragement, and spiritual grounding throughout the sprint.
  • Collaborative Games and Learning Tools: Engaging activities that build communal awareness, strengthen storytelling, and spark innovative, context- responsive thinking.

Curriculum Games

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The Hatch Deck

This deck contains over 100 beautifully designed profiles of faith-friendly social enterprises that innovators like you have “Hatched!” The profile cards represent industries as diverse as fishing, geo-mapping, real estate investment, and tattoo parlors! Each card features a different social enterprise, how it was founded, what it does, and how it engages with larger social issues and faith.

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Blow Up Your Idea!

The goal of this game is to spark creativity. Our hope is that you will take whatever idea you’ve got and make it sillier, savvier, crazier, more thoughtful, more creative, and more practical. In other words, we hope you’ll blow up your idea.

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Ripple Effect

Ripple Effect is a board game that uses cause and effect to help you creatively address the challenges you encounter in bite-sized pieces. This game is for anyone who wants to innovate in their context and make the world a little bit better.

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Ministry Collaboratory Testimonies

I think that this whole experience, it gave me a boost of confidence in my walk with God. Knowing that I’m capable to do ministry work is probably the biggest blessing that I’ve gotten out of all of this and be able to lead better is probably the coolest thing.

Young Adult Leader

Congregation in Kalamazoo, Michigan

I think what has surprised me is that the spaces young adults are finding meaning and purpose are more intentionally relational spaces and not so much service-based spaces… I heard a pretty loud “We really just want spaces to come together and share our lives together.

Pastoral Leader

United Methodist Congregation

I had the opportunity in our denominational conference here in Houston… I was telling them about this Pop-Up and the person in charge of congregational innovation… they’re now using Ripple Effect and the Hatch deck with different groups who are interested in doing innovation. The impact of these tools is greater than just our group.

Denominational Leader

Houston, TX.

Ready to Begin?

The Design Sprint curriculum is grounded in the work and research of the Ministry Collaboratory, a grant initiative supported by the Lilly Endowment Inc. We are deeply grateful to all who contributed to its development, including Rev. Ruth Perkins Lee and the dedicated Princeton Seminary students who played an integral role in its formation.

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