Hunches are good, but data is better. This is the axiom which spurred those of us at Steinbach Bible College to conduct a survey of youth ministries within our constituency. What we wanted was a clearer picture of what was happening in the youth groups of our churches. Over the past couple of months we have been collecting information from across our constituent churches. What is presented below is a snapshot of the data that we have collected so far.
When we looked at the size of youth groups we noticed that no matter the size of the church there is a noticeable drop in the number of grade 12. This raises some interesting questions.