There are various ways to communicate with your peers and find about news and upcoming activities.   To get started, click one of the groups below, and it will take you either to an email address, website, Yahoo or *Facebook group.  From there, we invite you to connect with the leader(s), so they can tell you a little more about the group and plug you into any other information resources you may be interested in.

DIOCESAN GROUP

• Campus/Young Adult Ministry (*Facebook group)

UNIVERSITY GROUPS

• Manchester Newman Catholic Fellowship (*Facebook group)
• Trine Newman Catholic Fellowship (*Facebook group)
• Newaman Catholic Fellowship-IPFW (*Facebook group)
• Newman Catholic Fellowship-IPFW (website)
• IUSB Newman Catholic Student Association (*Facebook group)
• Catholics at Bethel College (Mishawaka, IN-*Facebook group)

PARISH GROUPS

Elkhart Area Catholic Young Adults (*Facebook group)

•           St. Thomas the Apostle (Elkhart, IN-email address)
•           St. Vincent’s de Paul (Elkhart, IN-email address)
•           St. John Evangelist (Goshen, IN-email address)
•           St. Mary of the Annunciation (Bristol, IN-email address)

South Bend Area Catholic Young Adults (*Facebook group)

• St. Pius Young Adults (Granger, IN-website)
• St. Pius Young Adults (Granger, IN-*Facebook group)

St. Vincent’s (Fort Wayne, IN-Yahoo group)

MISCELLANEOUS GROUPS

• IUSB Right to Life (*Facebook group)
• IPFW Students for Life (*Facebook group)
• Theology on Tap- Fort Wayne, IN (*Facebook group)
• Young Adult Bible Study (Elkhart, IN) (*Facebook group)
• Young Adult Women of Grace (email address)- a nine week study for women, embracing God’s plan for them in the world and encouraging them to identify and utilize their individual gifts.  Video, text and workbook
• New Beginning: Young Adults Healing After the Death of a Loved One- For 18-39 year olds.  Group meets 2nd Wednesday of the month from 7:00-8:30 at the Cancer Services’ Healing Arts Center, 6316 Mutual Drive, Fort Wayne, IN  46825.  Service is free and works in collaboration with Parkview Home and Hospice and Visiting Nurse and Hospice Home.  Call Gail Hamm, ACSW, LCSW at 484-9560 or toll free 866-484-9560 for more information.

If you would like to get a group started in your parish or school or you are in a group and would like it listed here, please contact one of the staff members.

*Note: In order to utilize the Facebook group option for the groups above, one has to have a profile set up.  If you have never been on Facebook and would like join, click here-the service is free.  If you are not the Facebook type, feel free to email or call . 

 OTHER WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

• Regularly review upcoming events listed in the calendar section of this site.
• Attend Mass and introduce yourself to the pastor and let him know about your interest in becoming more involved in Young Adult Ministry in your parish.
• Ask a minister how you can help out in your area.
• Remember this ministry in your prayers.
• Sign-up to get on our email list to be updated on current news and activities by simply filling out this form.

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start

of our lives, that we are dying.  Then we

might live life to the limit, every minute

of every day.  Do it!… There are only

so many tomorrows.” — Pope Paul XVI