Male teens now outnumber females in church youth groups: Barna data

Bucking a decades-long trend of disproportionate female participation, male teenagers now outnumber their female counterparts in church youth group attendance among self-identified Christian teens in the U.S., according to a new report from Barna and prominent Christian youth ministry, Christ In Youth.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”