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Ways to give
Stand behind youth ministers who stay
Australian churches have built youth ministry as a job you do on the way to something else. It was built that way, and it can be rebuilt.
Why it matters
Only three per cent of Australian churches have a full-time youth minister, and 81 per cent have none at all. A church that wants one usually cannot afford more than a few hours a week, and the people who are good at the work leave it for something that pays a wage.
A gift to Youth Ministry Futures goes into a pool that trains theological students, sustains experienced youth ministers, and places them in churches that could not otherwise employ them. God is the one who keeps a generation; he has long done it through people who stay.
Source · Stanton & Pepper, Journal of Empirical Theology (2025). 2016 NCLS, n≈2,000 churches.
Youth Ministry Futures is an activity of Ridley College, so Ridley receives gifts on our behalf. Gifts of $2 and over are tax-deductible, and Ridley College issues your receipt.
Questions about giving, or a receipt to chase — partnerships@ymfutures.com.au