The POAMN Board is pleased to bring you the 2025 Resource Guide for Older Adult Ministry to provide valuable tools and ideas for older adult ministry activities at your church or community. We urge you to circulate this among your leaders.
In this edition, we have focused on a few special areas as well as provided some general topic ideas. All the articles are meant to stimulate opportunities for group discussions and meaningful older adult activities.
As many of you will already appreciate, older adult activities are not solely content-centric. They also can be a catalyst for quality social interaction to help stem loneliness and isolation or just break up boredom. For some individuals, who might find it hard to join in with group activities, it will help get them involved in a way that’s non-threatening or less intimidating.
This year, Older Adult Sunday is May 4. Please consider recognizing Older Adult Sunday in your community. A worship service is included in this guide to make this easier on you or your worship leader. The service was created by Rev. Denise Shannon, POAMN’s moderator.
Finally, we’d love to know what older adult activities you are pursuing in your church or senior community. Please don’t hide your light under a bushel! Send your good works to us so that we can share them in a future resource guide or our monthly newsletter.
We hope you find value throughout the year from this year’s guide and look forward to hearing from you. Connect with us through the POAMN website, poamn.org; by e-mail at info@poamn.org; or on Facebook at facebook.com/poamn.
Inside the 2025 Resource Guide
- Get Ready for May: Begin Planning Your Older Adult Week & Month Activities Now
- Explore Opportunities in Ministry With Older Adults
- A New Tradition: Celebrating Intergenerational Bonds
- Start or Enhance Your Ministry With a POAMN Grant
- Sharing Meditation Practices: A Journey of Faith and Reflection
- Save the Date for POAMN’s 2025 Conference
- Looking Back, Looking Forward
- Enhance Your Ability to Serve: Older Adult Ministry Certificate Through Columbia Seminary
- Cope with Change Using the Rearview Mirror
- The Gift of Longevity
- Creating Goals to Promote Joy
- Embracing the Journey of Writing Your Personal Narrative
- Empowering Senior Adults in Navigating the Digital World
- The Art of Mentorship
- Meaningful Books for Senior Discussion Groups
- Worship Service: No Matter Our Age
- POAMN Continues to Rise From Challenges of Global Pandemic
- Planning Guide Sponsors
Download your copy of the 2025 Resource Guide and start planning today!