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“More than 50,000 young people each year are leaving the Christian faith and deciding that they have ‘no religion’.” Phillip Hughes, Christian Research Australia

An invitation is extended to all key leaders and thought leaders to join a conversation and to lead a process for change that starts at the local church level. Your input is not only valuable but urgently required as we journey through this crisis into our shared future.

REGISTER TODAY (NO CHARGE) AND MARK YOUR CALENDAR. OUR YOUNG PEOPLE NEED YOU.

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We are losing young people from our churches and the faith. We can do something about it.

This matter is urgent and is bigger than any one organisation or denomination.

A strategic alliance of organisations, committed to working together to change these current statistics, will present a united call to the nation through a tour to every capital city in early 2015.

FIRSTLY, THIS IS A DISCIPLESHIP ISSUE.

When Jesus commissioned us to ‘go into all the world and make disciples’, He wasn’t describing disciples who follow Him for 12 years and then walk away from their faith. The church’s task is to develop lifelong, active followers of Jesus.

SECONDLY, THIS IS A LEADERSHIP ISSUE.

As such, it requires the attention and resolve of our nation’s church leaders and their leadership teams.

THIRDLY, THERE IS NO SHORT TERM SOLUTION.

A long term commitment to an intentional discipling strategy is required.

In summary, the core issue that needs to be addressed, which is at the heart of this disturbing global trend, is an urgent rethinking of what does it take to grow lifelong, active followers of Jesus.

A 3 year conversation with representatives from major Christian organisations and denominations, along with an exploration of reports, research and literature from across the Western world, has revealed some of the missing elements in this process of making disciples. The beginning of a response will see long term plans built around 10 key ‘pillars’ which will provide local faith communities with some focussed direction for reversing this trend.

These findings have been put together into a strategy that empowers local church leadership to be agents of change in this process. We believe the solutions lie within each gathered faith community. This is not a promotional tour for a new glossy resource kit or a 12 week course.

Here2Stay aims to:

  • alert church leaders to the current data about declining church/faith trend
  • explain why we are at where we are today
  • present a suggested way forward
  • empower church leaders to devise and implement their own localised strategy

EVENT DETAILS: 9:30am – 1:30pm. Morning Tea provided. No Charge.

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