Starting Strong | Developing Habits that Ground You During the Year
STARTING STRONG Starting Strong: Developing Habits that Ground You During the Year by Alex Hardt, Youth and Young Adult Pastor Between 2007 to 2014 those who identify as Christians went from 78% to 71% according to Fuller Youth Institute. That is not the percentage of those who go to church but claim that religious affiliation. “Those who study demographics believe the decline in overall church attendance is linked with young people’s religious practices, or lack thereof.” – Growing Young Book by Kara Powell As the summer comes to an end and school is gearing up our routines or lack of routines are about to massively change. For parents and students that means that we have to be intentional about waking up at a certain time, packing lunches, establishing routines, figuring out the sports/activities calendars, planning for holidays, figuring out where to be and when. In all the chaos it can be easy to lose our faith or to shelf our faith. We think to ourselves, “Aww no big