After Spring Break and Easter across the world of Youth Ministry numbers seem to go down. Why?
Some say its because its the end of the year and students have more homework and projects. Others say that after Easter everyone just becomes busy. Others blame it on spring fever. Others blame it on the warm weather.
Every year I have seen our youth ministry numbers go up in January and February and then in April and May they decline. I hear every "excuse" from sports to homework to forgetting we had youth. It amazes me how teens and parents just take a break from God when the weather gets warm. But without a doubt when we start doing "fun" events in June, the numbers go back. Is it because they get fired up about Pentecost and are ready for church activities again or is it that they have nothing better to do in the summer and so church is the natural hang out spot?
This is just a question I was wrestling with last week with a friend in ministry and wanted to see everyone else's opinion.
Hebrews 10:25 "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
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