By Cree McCree
What’s Happening
• As we’ve noted before, Millennials are drifting away from church. Indeed, 18– to 32–year-olds are less likely to attend worship services than any other age group.
• How to bring them back into the fold? Churches are reaching out with activities like Boys, Bibles, and Burritos, a young men’s club at the First United Methodist Church in Springfield, Illinois—which hosts similar groups for women and couples.
• Age-targeted worship services, like the Diocese of Springfield’s Young Adult Mass, are also attracting Millennials, who are more likely to shop around for a church than previous generations.
What This Means to Business
• Though many are deeply spiritual, Millennials can be wary of organized religion. To draw them back in, churches need to speak to their day-to-day lives.
• It can get awfully lonely facing life-changing decisions without a support system. Giving young people the chance to hash out their problems in a non-threatening environment encourages them to stick around.
• Twenty-somethings looking for soul mates with similar spiritual outlooks have a good chance of finding them at young adult services.
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