Found this courtesy of our friends in the SEPA synod blog:
Aging is an issue that many traditional Christian churches cannot ignore.
And the issue is twofold:
» There are more gray-haired people in the pews and congregations are dwindling.
» Clergy are aging, too
A 2001 report for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America set the median age of its members at 54 and the median age of the U.S. population at 41.
Read it all here: http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071216/LIFE/712160663/1079/life
