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 Diminishing Connection
The All Melbourne Matters report found that 18% of people aged 16-24 “were hurting deep inside and nothing seemed to help”. However, few people believed that Christian faith or the church could provide answers to this deep anguish. This belief has lead to the large numbers of young people leaving the church. Between 1996 to 2006 the number of people aged 0-24 attending the Salvation Army dropped by 87%. Attendance for those aged 25-44 also dropped by 80%. The proportion of people over 70 in the church is ten times that of those in their twenties [1].
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