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Session Description
Arguably our youth are more connected than any generation before them. Yet studies report that they claim things like “no one knows me well” or “my relationships are meaningless.” They feel lonely and isolated, as if the people who surround them are not necessarily with them. Our youth are becoming accustomed to knowing absence in the presence of others while also feeling presence with others on social media though they are physically absent from each other. With changing expectations of how and where to fi nd community, as well as what one is willing to give to receive it, how do we create a sense of koinonia, or intergenerational Christian community, in our worship and throughout our ministries?
Conference Title
2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-30-2020
Event Type
Panel/Conversation
Type (recording/text)
Recording
Subject Area
Worship
Topic
Intergenerational Worship
Keywords:
Youth, Loneliness, Isolation, Community
Recommended Citation
Gadsen, Terence; Keeley, Robert J.; Méndez, Elizabeth Tamez PhD; and Elliott, Lynn Barger, "Is Your Youth Ministry Offering Community Where No One Is Looking? And What Are the Implications for Worship?" (2020). Symposium on Worship Archive. 31.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2020/allitems/31
Is Your Youth Ministry Offering Community Where No One Is Looking? And What Are the Implications for Worship?
Arguably our youth are more connected than any generation before them. Yet studies report that they claim things like “no one knows me well” or “my relationships are meaningless.” They feel lonely and isolated, as if the people who surround them are not necessarily with them. Our youth are becoming accustomed to knowing absence in the presence of others while also feeling presence with others on social media though they are physically absent from each other. With changing expectations of how and where to fi nd community, as well as what one is willing to give to receive it, how do we create a sense of koinonia, or intergenerational Christian community, in our worship and throughout our ministries?