{"id":55,"date":"2007-08-10T14:34:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T21:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=55"},"modified":"2007-08-10T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T21:37:50","slug":"finding-keeping-and-developing-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Finding, Keeping, and Developing Young Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I look around the Church of the Brethren, I don’t see many active young adults. Something seems to happen to our youth as they go off to college. What’s your experience? How do you reach out to and attract young adults?<\/p>\n

Today, I ran across this article on reasearch that’s been done:<\/p>\n

LifeWay Research Uncovers Reasons 18 to 22 Year Olds Drop Out of Church<\/strong>
\nWritten by Staff<\/p>\n

NASHVILLE, Tenn.\u00e2\u20ac\u201dA new study from LifeWay Research reveals that more than two-thirds of young adults who attend a Protestant church for at least a year in high school will stop attending church regularly for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22.<\/p>\n

To read more of the article, please go to: http:\/\/www.lifeway.com\/lwc\/article_main_page\/0%2C1703%2CA%25253D165949%252526M%25253D200906%2C00.html?<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d love to hear of your experiences of working with young adults!<\/p>\n

Jeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I look around the Church of the Brethren, I don’t see many active young adults. Something seems to happen to our youth as they go off to college. What’s your experience? How do you reach out to and attract young adults? Today, I ran across this article on reasearch that’s been done: LifeWay Research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missional","category-understanding-context","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}