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Sticky Faith, Youth Worker Edition: Practical Ideas to Nurture Long-Term Faith in Teenagers is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many of the statistics you read about teenagers and faith can be alarming. Recent studies show that 40-50 percent of kids who are connected to a youth group throughout their senior year will fail to stick with their faith in college. As youth workers are pouring their time and energy into the students in their ministries, they are often left wondering if they’ve done enough to equip their...

from larger than average youth groups (average youth group size is 50 to 75 students). From the outset, we want to admit that these factors bring a certain bias to our findings, a bias we diligently tried to counter by examining other research studies and by face-to-face interviews with students with more diverse academic, family, and church backgrounds. In an effort to bring focus to our research, we recruited high school seniors who intended to enter college after graduation. For the purposes of our