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Sustainable Youth Ministry: Why Most Youth Ministry Doesn't Last and What Your Church Can Do About It is unavailable, but you can change that!

You're looking for a youth pastor. Again. What goes wrong? Why do youth ministries crumble? And what is the cost to students, parents, volunteers and church staff? Is a sustainable youth ministry possible, even after a youth pastor leaves? Youth ministry expert Mark DeVries knows the answer is yes, because he helps build sustainable youth ministries through his coaching service called Youth...

ministry. But both the research and our experience reveal that numbers do, in fact, matter. Youth Ministry That Transforms, the first thorough study of the profession of youth ministry, discovered surprisingly that “the size of a congregation’s youth group is the greatest predictor of its overall climate.”* In addition, the study revealed a direct correlation between the number of youth and volunteers in a youth ministry and the “sense of team” experienced by the youth ministry as a whole. After