There is hope...................

[dun]

at least with some of the younger generation. A 13 year old neighbor girl decided to raise a market steer for the fair. Every 2 weeks she would bring Curly over in a trailer to weigh him. Shw was always very polite and thanked us. Just before the fair she sent us a card thanking us again for all we had done to help her. We went to the fair to support her when she showed and when they had the sale. One of our calves was also there so it wasn;t all just for her. The fair is past and Curly is sold and gone, when it came time to load him at the fair to send him to slaughter, one of the adults untied him and started leading him to the trailer and she asked if she could do it. She lead him on the trailer, no tears, a big hug for the steer for goodbye. Today we rcvd a real nice card, hand written thanks for all we had done and some pictures of her and Curly. With young kids like that I figure there will always be some really excellent youngsters growing up.

 

[Alan]

Nice to hear, country kids are still the best in most cases.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

yep good to see one that thinks of others, and took the time....

 

[denvermartinfarms]

Good to hear. At our regular church we have went to for years there are about 20 people or so and other than me mom and dad, everyone else is all over 65 years old, not real odd considering the average age of the direct area. But yesterday we visited a bigger church of about 150 people in a larger community with a bigger number of younger people, and still yet out of at least 150 there could not have been 5 under 65 years old. So we got to discussing is there no young people at all in church anymore? I think we discovered a lot of this country's problems yesterday.

 

[john250]

Yes there is, and a lot of it can be found at 4-H Fairs.

 

[Jogeephus]

Glad it worked out well.

 

[TexasBred]

Good to hear. At our regular church we have went to for years there are about 20 people or so and other than me mom and dad, everyone else is all over 65 years old, not real odd considering the average age of the direct area. But yesterday we visited a bigger church of about 150 people in a larger community with a bigger number of younger people, and still yet out of at least 150 there could not have been 5 under 65 years old. So we got to discussing is there no young people at all in church anymore? I think we discovered a lot of this country's problems yesterday.

Denver no doubt worship is down worldwide but when you have a community of maybe 5,000 people (just an example) and there are as many as 70 churches in it you've got them pretty well diluted so no one is ever going to have a big crowd. The bad thing is that even in those 70 churches you always have some who are sitting on the edge of their pew just waiting for a reason to move down the street and start their own church.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

Good to hear. At our regular church we have went to for years there are about 20 people or so and other than me mom and dad, everyone else is all over 65 years old, not real odd considering the average age of the direct area. But yesterday we visited a bigger church of about 150 people in a larger community with a bigger number of younger people, and still yet out of at least 150 there could not have been 5 under 65 years old. So we got to discussing is there no young people at all in church anymore? I think we discovered a lot of this country's problems yesterday.

Denver no doubt worship is down worldwide but when you have a community of maybe 5,000 people (just an example) and there are as many as 70 churches in it you've got them pretty well diluted so no one is ever going to have a big crowd. The bad thing is that even in those 70 churches you always have some who are sitting on the edge of their pew just waiting for a reason to move down the street and start their own church.

I wasn't thinking the attendance was bad at all, just the lack at most churches of people under 65 and almost zero under 40.

 

[chippie]

dun, your post did my heart good.
: )

 

[Dave]

Good to hear. At our regular church we have went to for years there are about 20 people or so and other than me mom and dad, everyone else is all over 65 years old, not real odd considering the average age of the direct area. But yesterday we visited a bigger church of about 150 people in a larger community with a bigger number of younger people, and still yet out of at least 150 there could not have been 5 under 65 years old. So we got to discussing is there no young people at all in church anymore? I think we discovered a lot of this country's problems yesterday.

Denver no doubt worship is down worldwide but when you have a community of maybe 5,000 people (just an example) and there are as many as 70 churches in it you've got them pretty well diluted so no one is ever going to have a big crowd. The bad thing is that even in those 70 churches you always have some who are sitting on the edge of their pew just waiting for a reason to move down the street and start their own church.

I wasn't thinking the attendance was bad at all, just the lack at most churches of people under 65 and almost zero under 40.

It really depends on the individual church. The one I attend is packed with young people. High school kids, young families. On any given Wednesday night there will be 200 + teenagers at my church. When I was searching for a church to attend I went to a number of churches that had nothing but old people. I attend an Assembly of God church. There is another Assembly of God which isn't more than 4 miles away. One Sunday after church I was meeting some people in a park across the street from that other church. Their service let out when I was there. Nothing but older people. Just a couple of miles apart but a huge difference in who attends.
I have heard lately the age group with the lowest church attendance by far is 20-30. I also hear how they are now sending missionaries to Europe because church attendance there is down to 3%. I talked to one missionary who is working in Brussels. He said that Christians of all denomination make up 0.4% of the population of Brussels.
TB I started to count churches in my phone book. From the addresses listed it must be every church in two counties (population 120,000??). I quit counting at over 200. There must be well over 400. It is five full pages in the book. Then I counted denominations and there are 71 listed. That is every thing from Catholics to Baptists to Buddhists. The Assembly of God list 32 churches. I know some of those are pretty small 30-40 people. The one I attend runs three services that will have 300-400 people per service. I know that there are churches up in the city that will run 4 or 5 times that many people.

 

[inyati13]

That was nice of you too dun. Two reasons for hope.

 

[Ryder]

There are good kids out there. I am honored to know a few that I think are just super.
They are here and there in the country, towns, cities. Good kids are like good bulls. They are where you find them.

There might even be a few older folks that are pretty good people. :nod:

 

[Anonymous]

There are good kids all around. They usually just get less attention than the not so good kids. Just today we had a cow get out while I was working. Dead eye spliced the fence, used a come along to tighten it up to nail off, and tightened up the other 4 strands that had gotten stretched. All without any instruction or direction. Did a darn good job too, even if he did use the gate for the come along attachment. :lol2:

 

[AllForage]

Sounds to me like she may have a good set of parents as well.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

Sounds to me like she may have a good set of parents as well.

That makes a difference.

 

[dun]

Sounds to me like she may have a good set of parents as well.

That makes a difference.

She does, but the daughter thats 6 years older isn;t near as sweet a kid as this one is. We've all heard of people that people claim that no one has a bad thing to say about them. Her dad is the one person I know that fits in that category. I've never heard a negative word about him.