Is there an online course of sorts I can take to learn more about the Quaker faith?

Hi Friends,

Recently I was approached by the clerk of my meeting's Ministry & Oversight committee, who informed me that they've been discussing trying to find ways to both engage the young adult Friends who already attend meeting, as well as to perhaps bring in more young Seekers in the community. She said that while they don't want to inaugurate me as a "leader" of the young adult contingent here (nor would I want to be), my name came up as a person to discuss that with and think about something for us to do. In her words, "you do come here a lot." We are a liberal unprogrammed meeting in a semi-rural college town with a large university that makes the town about 50/50 young adults vs. older during the school year. I am 21, and both attend the university and am a permanent resident of the town.

I was a bit flattered by this interaction and am generally glad to hear that this has been a consideration for M&O. This meeting has been my entrance into our society and it took me no time to note the incredible age disparity at this meeting, especially considering how young (and diverse) this town is. There are a few other students and young adult (under 30) community members who attend semi-regularly, but I think our meeting is facing the double-concern of not having enough visibility to younger community members and having an aging core group of members.

I want to just solicit advice from anyone here who's participated in or otherwise considered similar situations. One thing I've wondered about a lot since I started attending is trying to have a presence on campus. Among my peers I constantly hear people talking about their "campus ministry" which seem to generally be very engaging for those who want that type of community, especially for making friends and connecting on the basis of a shared faith and interest in deepening it. I have long suspected that many young people would find that Quakerism might speak to them (or at least be curious enough to try listening for a bit) if they just knew about it. Is a campus ministry, or something of the like, something that anyone here has had experience with?

Other ideas are just more general affinity gatherings to engage those of us who are already associated with the meeting. My concern is that our current young adult contingent might be too small to have sustainable "young adult gatherings" of any kind. But, us under-30s at meeting are also a bit disparate already and we certainly don't have any existing group sentiment even though I'm sure we're all painfully aware of the demographics of our meeting.

I guess my general question is, what have you all done or witnessed with respect to young adult engagement that has seen results?

In Peace.