Student Outreach at Xenos

Strange Things in Xenos
or Why Xenos will never be a model for other churches

21. Extraordinarily high percentage of our youth groups are non-Xenos kids - We are excited to see our Junior High ministry is 30 percent non-Xenos kids (that is, their parents don't go to church here). Our High School ministry is nearly 60 percent non-Xenos kids. Our College ministry is over 70 percent non-Xenos kids. We think this is a sign of health, and bodes well for the future of Xenos. Based on visits to other churches and youth groups, we find the overwhelming majority of most churches' youth groups are kids from the church.

Altogether, our student groups from Junior High through College amount to more than 700 in weekly attendance. Our student groups focus on outreach to secular friends at school and work, and our meetings are all non-churchy. Xenos leaders put very heavy emphasis on student ministry, because we believe these people will be our leaders soon. By the time students reach the College group, they begin planting their own home churches and the pattern of ministry shifts from a staff- and program-based approach to a self-replicating, church-planting approach. By the time these students graduate, they are in their own home churches and intent on continuing to plant new home churches all over the city.

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