Youth Decline in Church Participation and Attendance

Welcome to the Lotus Flower Podcast, I am your co-host Dr. Pamela Robinson.

Today our special guest is one of my lifelong friends and sister in the Lord Lesa Henry. Lesa currently serves her community as a mental health care manager and worship leader. She is a wife, mother of two sons, and two granddaughters.

In this episode, we will discuss the growing concern with youth of today not being familiar with the presence or teachings of the bible. Per Lesa, many of them are not coming to church with their parents but left home to play with friends, watch tv or play video games and if they are in church, they are on their electronic devices playing games. Furthermore, many are not being taught to reverence God or the importance of the presence of God through prayer, biblical application, or worship.

Children are growing up in a worl ...