Young Adults Gap

Churches often worry about a “young adults gap” in their midst. It’s easy to work out (roughly) if there is one. Take the ages 18-35, say, as the test group (call the spread of ages a=17 years). Then take a realistic total spread of ages in one's area, say 0-80 (call it b=80). Then take the number of people in Church on a Sunday, say 100 (call it c=100). Then calculate (a / b) * c = and in this case one should have 21 people in the 18-35 age group. Admittedly it's a very crude calculation, especially as one assumes a flat age gradient from 0-80. OBSERVATION: I ran a similar test on the beginning and the end of my ministry on the Atlantic. In 1994, the ages 0-35 were 13% represented. In 2013, they were 67% represented. There are reasons for this (while my own age went up rather than down), which I may put in a future post.