Are you Able to keep Young Adults Active in your Congregation?
1. Do you invite young adults to serve on your worship committee, and encourage those so
gifted to lead worship, or share music during worship?
2. Have you evaluated your worship services in light of the general desire by young adults
for more contemporaneity?
3. Do you generally have at least one young adult serving on your church council and/or
elders?
4. Are there specific events or activities for young adults in your church?
5. How many of your Sunday school teachers are young adults?
6. Have there been specific measures taken in your church to better understand the
perspectives of young adults who are both inside and outside of the church?
7. Are you intentional in reaching out to single persons?
8. Do you feel that the members of your church are just as welcoming to young singles and
to couples who do not have children as they are to young couples with children?
9. Are you making any special efforts to help older members understand the unique
circumstances of single parents?
10. Do you provide child care at all of your church activities?
11. Have you been able to encourage more open discussion of sexuality in your
congregation?
12. Is it possible to find ways to quickly integrate enthusiastic young adults into the life of
the church, or must they wait to serve as a result of your annual elections?
13. What planned activities outside worship offer opportunities for young adults and older
adults to interact with one another?
14. Are young adults from your congregation appointed to represent your church at your
district or denominational assemblies?
15. Do you maintain contact with your young adult members while they are away in college,
or in a service assignment abroad, or working in another city, through sending emails,
newsletters, Skyping, etc.?
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