Apparently in the UK the Back To Church Sunday mission worked well. So now it's been bought to Australia and on Sunday 13th September, it will be back to church day in Australia.
From doing a brief read of their website: www.backtochurchsunday.com.au it seems like this campaign has some similarities to the Jesus All About Life campaign. My thoughts about that campaign when it was run in Tasmania, which were somewhat controversial (see the comments) are recorded on my blog here.
In terms of youth ministry these days, you either have youth who go to church and youth who don't. When I was at school (so I'm assuming this applies for people from 23-30 at least) most of my peers had never been to church. So this is clearly a program aimed at people at least 40+. It has to be as they are the only people who probably used to go to church who might consider coming back.
Let's hope it works.
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I would hope that the program being run here is different to the one in the UK. Australia is generally not as 'churched' as the UK as you point out. Do You know of any changes?
ReplyDeleteI suppose this is a good thing as we all know people who no longer come to church. That said it would be nice if we invited friends back regardless of an event - the event might actually put some off.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about people not actually being able to go BACK to church given they've never been there to begin with. I think it would be our parents generation who last had that culture of (semi)regular church attendance because their parents (our grandparents) were regulars.
You'd better not be too critical though Chris - it seems that your blog is monitored by the organisers of these programs...
Hey John. No I'm not aware of any changes, but I'm sure there probably are.
ReplyDeleteAnd Jono, I thought I was very measured... I could have said what I really thought ;)