ChurchMedic

I recently have started this project taking a peek @ the many different websites we host across the Vine Network I noticed that many have little to zero presence for their youth groups in the church.

While driving to Ginghamsburg from NJ  I took time to call a number of these churches.

I asked what was going on - is there something we can help with - and almost all responded with - we have no clue what to place there…

Some said - We have no youth group -

Others said - why post youth stuff in the first place -they already have their own web stuff such as myspace and such…

I probed a little more - made some suggestions and found that some churches are very resistant to working with youth…

This scares me …

In probing further I found a bunch of church goers that are scared of today’s youth - scared to interact with them - for fear that they will turn them off…

What I am concerned with is - instead of turning the youth off by saying the wrong thing - they have turned the youth off all together…

Silence is Silence - no matter who’s fault…

Either someone is not listening - or someone is not Speaking…

What is worse?

I think not speaking is -   If we are given a commandment to Go into all the World… to love our neighbor as ourselves…  what are we leaving as a legacy ?

With so many persons leaving the faith - and the church daily… perhaps its time our church leadership wakes up to the simple fact.

“Without Youth the ‘local’ church will die… ”

“Number of Unchurched Adults Has Nearly Doubled Since 1991,” The Barna Report, May 4, 2004, http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=163.

“There are 3000 people every 24 hours that are leaving the faith”, writes Bill Tenny-Brittian. The problem is not just declining members or attendance - but so much more.

Pray for these churches - Pray for the youth.

Is the youth left to be dead in the dark that the Church just can’t fight because its asleep in the light?