YAN Phoenix · New Hub — Join the Launch Team
One City. Many Churches. One Mission.
The same movement connecting young-adult ministries in Atlanta is taking its first steps across the Valley — and it starts with the leaders willing to help build it.
Where This Started
Born in Atlanta. Built city by city.
YAN began as a way to connect the young-adult ministries already at work across Atlanta — not to compete with churches, but to help what God was already doing find each other. That same simple idea is now finding its way to Phoenix and the surrounding Valley.
There's no directory or event calendar here yet — this hub is genuinely just beginning. If you lead a young-adult ministry, group, or church anywhere in metro Phoenix, you'd be one of the first voices shaping what YAN Phoenix becomes.
For the Glory of Jesus
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. … that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”
John 17:20–23 (NIV)
“Already the new men are dotted here and there all over the earth.”
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952), Book 4
The Real Picture
Why Phoenix, why now.
Metro Phoenix is one of the fastest-growing regions in the country — and its young adults are navigating real challenges alongside real spiritual momentum.
In This City
~22%
of Phoenix's population is age 15–29
More than one in five Phoenix residents is a teen or young adult, placing the city among the youngest and fastest-growing major metros in the country.
1.9
weekends per month the typical Gen Z churchgoer now attends services
Nationally, young adults are now leading a resurgence in church attendance — Gen Z and Millennials out-attending older generations for the first time in decades.
79%
of Americans ages 18–24 say they feel lonely
Young adults are the most digitally connected generation, and yet report feeling the loneliest of any age group.
- 1. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019–2023 5-Year Estimates (via Statistical Atlas), 2023 — City of Phoenix. Source
- 2. Barna Group, 2024 — National (no Arizona-specific figure found). Source
- 3. The Cigna Group, "Loneliness in America" report, 2025 — National (no Arizona-specific figure found). Source
A Valley, Waiting to Connect
From Downtown to Scottsdale.
Young-adult ministries are already at work across the Valley. YAN Phoenix exists to become the thread that connects them — as soon as the founding leaders are in place.
The Network
YAN Phoenix doesn't exist yet — you could help start it.
There's no directory, no events, no leader list here — not yet. The first ministries and leaders who join become the founding team for the entire Valley.
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One Movement, Many Cities
Phoenix isn't alone in this.
YAN Phoenix shares the same foundation as every other hub — starting with Atlanta, where the movement began, and New York and Los Angeles, launching alongside it.