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Lunch Gathering: Freebirds in Corpus Christi, Friday June 10 @ 12:30 pm

Young Adult Council will host it's annual lunch on Friday of Annual Conference. This is a time for young adults from around the SWTC just to come and hang out, receive a free lunch, and hear what's happening in our area for young adult United Methodists! All young adults, ages 18 to 30 are invited.

For location and details email Rusty Freeman at rhf143@aol.com.

FYI: THE CRISIS FOR YOUNGER CLERGY

What many denominational and congregational leaders have suspected for a long time has now been proven: the numbers of persons under 35 graduating from seminary and entering ordained ministry in mainline churches have declined precipitously in recent years. What does this trend mean for you? If you’re a young pastor, it means that you’ll have to create different kinds of support networks than your predecessors have done. If you’re on the administrative board of a local congregation, it means that the kinds of pastors available to you, and the character of their pastorates, will be different to what you have been used to in the past.

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Hear our Cry? There are about 8 million twentysomethings alive today in the US who were active in church as teenagers but who will no longer be active in a church by age 30. EIGHT MILLION!  (www.barna.org)