Growing young : six essential strategies to help young people discover and love your church /
Kara Powell, Jake Mulder, and Brad Griffin.
- 330 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-330).
Growing young: what congregations are doing right -- Unlock keychain leadership: sharing power with the right people at the right time -- Empathize with today's young people: why 25 is the new 15, and 15 is the new 25 -- Take Jesus' message seriously: what's young about the Good News -- Fuel a warm community: warm is the new cool -- Prioritize young people (and families) everywhere: from rhetoric to reality -- Be the best neighbors: loving and shaping your world well -- Growing young in your context: how to create a plan for change -- Appendix: Research method and procedures.
"Unleashing the Passion of Young People in Your Church Is Possible! Churches are losing both members and vitality as increasing numbers of young people disengage. Based on groundbreaking research with over 250 of the nation's leading congregations, Growing Young provides a strategy any church can use to involve and retain teenagers and young adults. It profiles innovative churches that are engaging 15- to 29-year-olds and as a result are growing--spiritually, emotionally, missionally, and numerically. Packed with both research and practical ideas, Growing Young shows pastors and ministry leaders how to position their churches to engage younger generations in a way that breathes vitality, life, and energy into the whole church"--Dust jacket.
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Church work with teenagers. Church work with young adults.