Check this out:
1973 120,000 – pretty big drop from that 140,000 the year before.
Each year it has gone down.
1980 (7 years latter) – 109,000
1985 – 88,000
1990 – 90,000
1995 – 93,000
2000 - ??????
2001 – 83000
2005 – 83,000
2008 – 75,000
We are seeing fewer students baptized today than ever before. Student Pastors it is time for us to step up and get very intentional in reaching the next generation.
When is the last time you shared the gospel in your student ministry? Did you follow up on those students that were saved and watch them get baptized?
We need to get off the sidelines and into the game before we watch another generation go by.
I’m praying God creates a movement in student ministry all across America and we reach an all time high in youth baptisms. This means we have to baptize more than 140,000 students in 1 year.
That has not happened in almost 18 years. WOW!!!!!!
I just pulled together stats in my area. 35,000 students and 27,000 are un-churched.
I just moved from Katy Texas (3rd fastest growing city in US). They have 64,500 students in Katy and close to 50,000 are un-churched!!!
We have a lot of work today and very little time to do it in. LET’S GO FOR IT TOGETHER!!!!!!
Source: Annual Church Profile, Lifeway Christian Resource Center, Nashville Tenn. Compiled by the center for Missional Research of the North American Mission Board, Alpharetta, GA
1 comment:
if students are feeling intimidated into things by being essentially straight up asked 'are you a christian' in the middle of church, that's not real christianity, thats intimidation...
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