research has shown that young adults raised in Adventist families are more likely to drop out than are adult converts. The most recent studies indicate that about half of the teenagers who grow up in Adventist families in North America have left the church by their mid-20s. The statistical impact of this reality is made more acute by the fact that there are fewer young people and a larger share of older people each year in the Adventist population. And changing demographics make this even more acute