a ministry of Hard Hats for Christ
Seeing God establish purpose and passion as we equip youth with construction skills.
Building in Youth is a new ministry of Construction Workers Christian Fellowship, better known as Hard Hats for Christ. Phil and Lucy Hayes recently joined as Coordinators of Youth Mentoring and Outreach.
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We highly recommend a book by Ken Ham, founder and president of Answers in Genesis, Already Gone. The book is available in a volume discount at his website: Answers in Genesis. You may choose to listen to an audio sermon with Dr. Ham at SermonAudio.
The following article in the Christian Post features Dr. Ham on his book. "The Bible calls the Church 'the Body of Christ'. Today, that body is bleeding profusely. The next generation of believers is draining from the churches, and it causes me great personal and professional concern.
Hoping to shed light on what he believes is a monumental problem, Ham enlisted the services of America's Research Group to study why young people were leaving. The results, published in Already Gone, will shake many churches to their very core, Ham states in the new book.
While previous surveys have shown that Christian students tend to quit church during their college years, the data collected by ARG found that most of them were already gone in middle school and high school.
According to ARG's survey, 95 percent of 20- to 29-year-old evangelicals attended church regularly during their elementary and middle school years. Only 55 percent went to church during high school. And by college, only 11 percent were still attending church.
"They're sitting in our churches right now ... and they're already gone," Ham said during a "State of the Nation" address last week." (ChristianPost.com June 29, 2009)
- Hard Hats for Christ has launched a new division, Building In Youth, to give youth construction knowledge and safety training.
- Hard Hats is an international mission organization which provides assistance to Christian ministries in their construction needs.
- If you have a passion to use your construction skills for God and want to see God build His Kingdom into the next generation, won't you join us now?
- If you have some time and a sense of adventure, God can use you in Building In Youth!