Like what YAM-NW does? Have a great idea? Want to help shape the future of YAM-NW? If you answered yes to any of those questions, please join us for a planning meeting as we plan out the next few months of the YAM-NW calendar. Bring your ideas, passion, and suggestions with you! We will be meeting in the Parish Center in the Neumann Room.

Join us for some fun and fellowship and (of course) volleyball! All skill levels welcome to play. To get to the gym, park in the big lot behind Smith Corcoran Funeral Homes. When facing the church, the gym is the large stand-alone building on the left.

Winter doldrums have you missing the tap? Join us for YAM-NW's Winter Wine Series! We will be hosting 4 sessions with 4 different speakers at 4 different parishes. So come on by, grab a glass of wine, and spend a Wednesday night with us listening to some amazing speakers. Our first speaker will be Ms. Samantha Povlock, the creator of FemCatholic. She will be speaking on "3 Reasons for Catholics to be Feminists". Last year, Merriam Webster's "Word of the Year" was "feminism". While many Catholics recoil at the thought of what feminism connotes - abortion, contraception, etc - Saint Pope John Paul II actually called FOR feminism - "new feminism". We'll discuss three good reasons for Catholics to be feminists: (1) women around the world still need our help, (2) we can use the word to evangelize the culture, and (3) Catholics DO believe men and women are equal. Talk will be based on this post: www.femcatholic.com/3-good-reasons-catholic-should-be-feminists/

Come join us for an evening at Phil's Friends to color Cards of Hope for patients with cancer. Phil’s Friends is a Christian nonprofit organization founded by two-time cancer survivor Phil Zielke. We are committed to bringing support and hope to those affected by cancer in the United States. We reach out through care packages, cards of hope mailed monthly, and prayer. The Roselle location is in the same building as a strip mall that includes Roselle Bank and Trust. Enter at the side entrance and go down the hallway to find the room for Phil's Friends.

Winter doldrums have you missing the tap? Join us for YAM-NW's Winter Wine Series! We will be hosting 4 sessions with 4 different speakers at 4 different parishes. So come on by, grab a glass of wine, and spend a Wednesday night with us listening to some amazing speakers. Our second speaker will be Mr. Bryan Fong, one of YAM-NW's Co-Chairs. He will be speaking on "Called to Serve: The Young Adult Field Medic". In 2013, in Pope Francis' book, "The Name of God is Mercy", he likened the Church to a "field hospital" - "I often say that in order for this to happen, it is necessary to go out...I like to use the image of a field hospital to describe this 'Church that goes forth'; it exists where there is combat...". If the Church is a field hospital, what role do we as Catholic Young Adults find ourselves in? Let's examine the role of the field medic as we find our place in the combat.

Join us for some fun and fellowship and (of course) volleyball! All skill levels welcome to play. To get to the gym, park in the big lot behind Smith Corcoran Funeral Homes. When facing the church, the gym is the large stand-alone building on the left.

Winter doldrums have you missing the tap? Join us for YAM-NW's Winter Wine Series! We will be hosting 4 sessions with 4 different speakers at 4 different parishes. So come on by, grab a glass of wine, and spend a Wednesday night with us listening to some amazing speakers. Our third speaker will be Dr. Lynne Boughton. She will be speaking on "Bread of the Presence and Wine Poured Out: Sacrificial Foundations of the Eucharist in the Sinai Covenant". One of the difficulties that many Catholics have in understanding the Jewish roots of the Eucharist is that they confuse Biblical Judaism (which is described in the Hebrew scriptures of the Old Testament and which continued to be observed through the lifetime of Jesus and the Apostles because the Jerusalem Temple was still functioning) with rabbinic Judaism (which did not developed after the loss of the Temple in 70 AD and is represented in writings composed between 200 and 500 years after the lifetime of Jesus and the Apostles).

YAM-NW will be attending Faith and Fellowship Night at the Wolves game. Tickets are $22/person (add $4 if you plan to join in the service projects prior to the game). Prior to February 1, YAM-NW will be collecting payment to buy group tickets. After February 1, you will have to purchase tickets separately (but you might not be seated with us and there is an additional $2.50 online charge). Service projects begins at 4pm and game begins at 7pm.

Winter doldrums have you missing the tap? Join us for YAM-NW's Winter Wine Series! We will be hosting 4 sessions with 4 different speakers at 4 different parishes. So come on by, grab a glass of wine, and spend a Wednesday night with us listening to some amazing speakers. Our final speaker will be Mr. Raymond Urban. He will be speaking on "Understanding the Bible and Using it for Evangelization". Sometimes the Bible is a foreign, maybe even scary or daunting book. As a result, sometimes we find ourselves shying away from really diving into the Word. However, it doesn't have to be this way. As Catholics, we are called to a greater and deeper understanding of the Bible. And we can even use the Bible to attract and evangelize others to God and the Catholic Church. Learn how!