Maybe other people in this sub left way before Covid so you might not remember how many young people during that time. I’d estimate at least 25 percent of young people left during Covid because they finally had freedom and didn’t have to constantly have their head on a swivel.

Ever since then, when I’ve gone to conferences the past couple years no matter if it’s a youth conference or not, there’s a target towards young people. And it has nothing to do with revival or growing churches no matter how much preacher’s try to make it about that.

It’s because they’re losing people quicker and quicker. My own parents lost pretty much everyone that was coming to service and the one member they have doesn’t even come that often. Naturally they’ve shifted towards pushing me and my brother to go on outreach but the problem is that no one is interested in attending because they’re either religious or they have work on Sundays.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that in a few years, I wouldn’t be shocked if more young people are going to leave because of how the cracks in their message keep forming with every year that goes by. Idc if other young people stay since that’s their choice, but I hate seeing them waste their life like I did for so long.