It’s not hard to notice that, here in America, people have been leaving the Church at an alarmingly quickening rate. However, recent studies are telling us that young people who have relationships with members of the church community outside their family and their own age group are almost twenty times more likely to stay in the Faith in their adulthood.

Intergenerational friendships are deeply important.

Yet, with the best of intentions, the American church has built an avalanche of age-defined programs, effectively putting up walls where intergenerational friendships might have historically been able to grow.

In Every Generation was launched when Belmont University received a grant from the Lilly Foundation. Our goal: to help reunite the generations in the Church body during the Sunday morning worship service.

To do this, we are creating:

• A series of albums, full of songs to encourage and inspire the Church at large

• Worship Leader Resources so local Churches can use these songs in their own worship services

• Media Content that showcases the work we have done in our intentionally intergenerational songwriting and recording camps, to serve as a model

• Live Worship Appearances and Speaking Presentations at Major Conferences

• Written Articles, Journals, Book Content and Peer-Reviewed Research