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POLL: Youth Ministry Communication
Communicating all of the happenings of our youth ministries can be easy for some and harder for others. One of the biggest things that you will hear from any ad-agency is this, “you can never over communicate.” There are so many forms of communication these days, which ones do you rely on the most to communicate your ministry news?
Youth Survey: Teens lose faith in droves
Islam and atheism are on the rise while Christianity fades
Just as the younger generation is abandoning the Christian faith, though, non-Western religions, such as Islam and Buddhism, are growing in Canada at a surprising speed. According to new data from Project Teen Canada, more teens now identify as Muslim than Anglican, United Church of Canada and Baptist combined. As a group, the percentage who adhere to so-called “other faiths”—including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism—has grown fivefold since Project Teen began its surveys in 1984, while the percentage of teens who identify as Roman Catholic has declined by one third, and the percentage who identify as Protestant is down by almost two-thirds.
Full Article Macleans.ca
Youth Survey: City vs. Country kids
Small-town teens are more likely to have had sex. And honesty and politeness is less important to them.
When it comes to sex, 60 per cent of 15-to 19-year olds from communities with populations less than 10,000 admit to being active, versus just 49 per cent in the country’s largest (400,000-plus) centres. And more small town kids (75 per cent) are accepting of premarital relations than in the big city (70 per cent.)
Read the rest of the article at MACLEANS.CA
