Transition. A somewhat newly formed group at my church aimed at college-aged people who are transitioning between youth and adulthood. Started off strong through a coffee shop and many bible studies. Now....it is not so strong. Many factors must be contributed to this including some of the following...
1. Pregnancy. Something happened at my church in which several non-married people became pregnant and ended up marrying the person they had the baby with. So now the group is made up of married people with children which makes it hard to plan events. Because of this the main objective of the group has seemed to change to focus on young married couples. Tonight a bible study was started aimed at being good parents and the sunday school lesson is aimed at being good mothers and fathers. Does this turn single people off...yes it does.
2. College. A college group is hard to do as the students go back and forth. For example me, I came back to Charleston every 6 months and when I was here I didn't even do much with the group.
3. Lack of outreach. The coffee house was the outreach that brought in people to the group. I never actually went to one as it started after I left but my mother helped out with it and she said a lot of new faces came into the group through the coffee house. I am not sure when, or why it stopped but it does not exist anymore and it is hard to get people into the group now.
So yeah the group has nearly fallen apart and something has to change if transition is going to exist. How it needs to change, I'm not sure.
I feel you on the outreach. My church back home will preach on it, but there is not much effort to actually do it. Frustrating.
ReplyDeleteAs for the parental lessons, I know that can suck. But in the long run, it would be great for you... granted, you want kids. lol. I'm caught in the same limbo with the church here in Picayune. There's a college group (Ie - Dude, I'm failing my classes because I can't put my Xbox 360 down. SERIOUSLY?!), and then there's the 24ish-50 women's class. Is there not a 24-30 year old Sunday school class? But I'm noticing that there aren't many people that age that aren't married or with kids. Again, I feel you!