Recently, during a Northwestern Association's convention, I. V. Mileyev was interviewed and marked the reasons why the youth is leaving our Slavic churches. The Interview was published on Facebook (click here to view) and generated 17,000 views, 290 reposts, 272 likes, and 79 comments.
Prior to this, there was the Association pastors' conference in February during which I. V. Mileyev offered two seminars in that same topic, looking at the reasons why there is a decrease of youth in our churches, and offered possible solutions to this problem. The meeting was attended by only about 30 people from 34 churches of the Association (note that the senior pastors of larger churches were not represented), and the recording of his presentation generated only 120 views on YouTube (sessions can be found here: first | second) and did not generate a single comment on Facebook.
Why is there such a different reaction to the presentation of the same person about the same problem? Why is it that the Northwestern Association’s members are worried about the problem with the youth, and there is such passivity and carelessness among the PCSBA’s members? Is the topic not interesting? Nothing to say? Does not one of the church members or pastors have any ideas about this? Or everyone is so consumed at pursuing the «American Dream», that they don't have time or desire for anything else?
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