Blog - Engage

The Pinetops Foundation report The Great Opportunity (2019) projected that over the next three decades, more than one million youth who are at least nominally in the church will leave each year. By 2050, an estimated 35 million young people raised in Christian families will no longer identify as Christian. The report urged a return to the strong youth-ministry emphas...

Gen Z is the most digitally connected generation in history—and yet they are also the loneliest.

The statistics on their relational and mental health struggles are striking:

They struggle with loneliness despite constant online connection.

Nearly one-third of Gen Z say they have no trusted adults in their lives.

35 percent say they have no one to turn ...

George Barna, one of the leading researchers on the religious life of Americans, consistently tells pastors that the highest-priority ministry in the church should be to children. The reason is straightforward: a person’s worldview is largely formed by age 13.

A worldview is the lens through which we interpret everything—God, the human condition, our purpose, and how we...

This summer we had the opportunity to teach in the School of Ministry of the Diocese of the South West. We did a six week class titled “Engage: A Call to Generational Discipleship” over Zoom for clergy and lay leaders from a churches across the southwest and some from Mexico. The classes were translated for spanish speakers. The course outline was as follows.

Week 1: Th...

Are you aware that there is a key, missing component in many of our churches’ efforts to make disciples that is simple to encourage, biblically modeled, and corresponds with increased giving, intentional discipling of others, and more vigorous evangelism?

Of course, God is doing amazing work in churches across the province. We see creative outreach, congregations servin...