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Helping YOU minister to youth and young adults

Orthodox Youth & Young Adult Ministries (OYM) is here to empower, partner, and walk with parents as well as lay and ordained ministry leaders – at a jurisdictional, regional, and local level – as they seek to bring young people into an ever-deepening sense of who they are in Christ.

Orthodox Youth and Young Adult Ministries (OYM) is the official youth agency of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America.

Our values

Helping YOU minister to youth and young adults

Christ-Centered

Christ is the Alpha and Omega (Rev. 21:6) and as such, all things revolve around He who is the beginning point and end goal of all OYM seeks to do.

Following First

Before serving others, we are Christ followers first, seeking to imitate and share His love so that all people might know we are His disciples (Jn. 13:35).

Collaborative

Working well with others for the Good News of the Kingdom of God is a full expression of St. Paul’s call to put on love as the perfect bond of unity (Col. 3:14).

Dynamic

Though the Gospel is unchanging, our methods of communication must change with the times so that we might be all things to all people in order to save some (1 Cor. 9:22).

“How do we keep our young people in the Church?”

This question has been asked by a countless number of concerned priests, pastors, parents, and youth workers. You probably have even asked it yourself. After all, it is no secret that Christian churches have been hemorrhaging young people in recent years. The Orthodox Church is no different.

We’ve noticed it. No doubt you’ve noticed it. And your bishops definitely noticed it.

That’s why they deemed 2021 the “Year of the Youth,” in order to focus on this issue. The capstone achievement of that year, was the unanimous approval of the creation of OYM, an Assembly agency that will cast a vision to unite and deepen ministry efforts across jurisdictions and across the United States.

If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.

–Saint Ambrose of Optina

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Christ, who approached prostitutes, tax collectors and sinners, can hardly be the teacher of those who are afraid to soil their pristine garments, who are completely devoted to the letter, who live only by the rules, and who govern their whole life according to rules.

–St. Maria of Paris

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