{"id":239466,"date":"2026-07-09T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239466\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:33:07","slug":"andrea-hall-named-director-of-archdiocesan-office-for-ministry-with-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239466\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Hall Named Director of Archdiocesan Office for Ministry with Young Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"

By CatholicPhilly Staff Report \u2022 Posted July 9, 2026 <\/p>\n

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced July 9 that Andrea Hall (n\u00e9e Mueller) has been appointed director of its Office for Ministry with Young Adults, effective immediately.<\/p>\n

Hall previously served as associate director of the office for the past two and a half years under the leadership of Father Timothy Tarnacki, OSPPE. Tarnacki recently received a new pastoral assignment from the Pauline Fathers and will soon serve as a pastor in Florida.<\/p>\n

During her tenure with the office, Hall helped expand The Well: Young Adult Conference, which draws more than 500 young adults annually<\/a> from across the Philadelphia region, and supported initiatives including the Young Adult Missionary Discipleship Initiative formation program.<\/p>\n

Hall also serves with the Philadelphia chapter of Young Catholic Professionals as director of fellowship and service and director of evangelization. Prior to her work in young adult ministry, she was a resident service leader with Blessed Sarnelli Community, which ministers to the poor in Philadelphia\u2019s Kensington neighborhood.<\/p>\n

A graduate of Saint Joseph\u2019s University, Hall earned bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in psychology and was active in campus ministry.<\/p>\n

As director, Hall will lead the Office for Ministry with Young Adults, which is part of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia\u2019s Office for Faith Formation for Youth and Young Adults. Established by Archbishop Nelson J. P\u00e9rez in July 2020, the office seeks to engage and accompany young adults as missionary disciples of Jesus Christ in the world around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff Report \u2022 Posted July 9, 2026 The Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced July 9 that Andrea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[103001,67036,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-239466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-andrea-hall","tag-office-for-ministry-with-young-adults","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}