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Joining and Remaining JOINING AND REMAINING : A Look at the Data on the Role of Adventist Education iven the effort and the such as the CognitiveGenesis re- Joining the Church costs involved, Seventh- search, 2 which have examined the In the biblical model, conversion day Adventist parents academic performance of students in is expressed through baptism. 3 Bap - G sometimes wonder: “Does Adventist schools, this article will tism, in turn, is a public statement of Adventist education truly make a dif - focus on two key outcomes: acces- one’s desire to formally join the ference? Do the benefits gained out - sion and retention—joining the Ad- church. Is there support for the role weigh the expenditure? Is sending my ventist Church and remaining in the of Adventist education in accession child to the Adventist school an ex - denomination. to the church? pense or an investment?” So what do we know about access Adventist education is the longest Pastors and other church leaders and retention, and the role of Sev- and largest evangelistic event held by also ponder: “Is Adventist education enth-day Adventist education? In the Adventist Church. It is also one of truly evangelism? Does it justify the short, there is a consistent and impor- the most effective. resources that we invest? If so, how tant relationship between attending Depending on the country and can we present a persuasive case for an Adventist school and the likeli- the educational system, the duration Adventist education to parents and hood that a child or youth will join of a school day can range from five other church members?” the Adventist Church and then to nine hours, and a school year can Writing to church leaders and edu - choose to remain a member. We’ll range from 160 to 260 days. 4 An in - cators, Ellen White declared that the take a look at the evidence. dividual student could attend an Ad - all-important issue in Adventist edu - ventist school from a single year to cation is the conversion of the stu - perhaps 16 years or more. At mini - dent. 1 While there have been studies, BY JOHN WESLEY TAYLOR V http://jae.adventist.org The Journal of Adventist Education • April-June 2017 39 mum, if a student attends an Ad - A 1990 study, for example, ana - only 3.1 percent were never baptized ventist school for just a single year, lyzed 844 children and youth from Ad - (see Figure 1). this represents an evangelistic op - ventist families in the Southern Union Another study conducted in 1985 portunity of at least 800 hours. To Conference of the North American Di - of 807 children and youth from Ad - use evangelistic terminology, this vision. 7 Of those children and youth ventist families in the Lake Union equates to a person attending an who had no Adventist education, 40.1 Conference of the North American evangelistic series two hours per percent were never baptized. Of those Division found similar results. 8 Of night for 400 nights. If a student, with one or more years of Adventist those children and youth with no however, continues in Adventist ed - education, 15.4 percent were never Adventist education, 38.3 percent ucation from 1st grade through uni - baptized; while in the group with 11 never joined the church. In the versity studies, the evangelistic po - or more years of Adventist education, group with some Adventist educa - tential could increase to more than 37,000 hours. In Adventist education, 5,705 Figure 1. School Attendance and Baptism evangelistic sites specialize in chil - Source: Kenneth James Epperson study dren 5-12 years old, with 51,965 evangelists and 1,188,910 persons at - tending each day. Also, 2,336 evan - gelistic sites focus on adolescents 13- 3.1% 16 years old, with 36,711 evangelists 15.4% and 583,946 in attendance. For youth 40.1% and young adults, there are 167 evan - Never gelistic venues, with 14,103 evangel - baptized ists and 142,530 attending. All told, 96.9% Adventist education represents more 84.6% Baptized than 8,000 evangelistic sites, with 59.9% more than 100,000 evangelists in - volved and nearly 2 million in atten - dance each day. 5 Certainly, it is the largest evangelistic endeavor of the church. No Adventist 1+ years Adventist 11+ years Adventist education education education Is it effective? Each year for the past 10 years, there have been at least 30,000 and in some years, more than Figure 2. School Attendance and Church Membership 50,000 students in Adventist schools Source: Warren Minder study baptized during the school year, pri - marily in culminating events such as a Week of Prayer. The total for the 0.0% 2006-2015 period was 427,313 bap - 4.6% tisms. 6 To look at it another way, this 38.3% is equivalent to a typical-size confer - Never ence being established each year joined the through the evangelistic ministry of church Adventist education. 95.4% 100.0% While only a few studies have Joined the compared attendance at Adventist 61.7% church schools with the baptismal rate of children from Adventist families, the ones that have examined this connec - tion concluded that Adventist educa - tion does make a significant differ - No Adventist Some Adventist 12 grades Adventist ence in terms of children and youth education education education joining the church. 40 The Journal of Adventist Education • April-June 2017 http://jae.adventist.org Figure 3. Faith Development Factors Source: V. Bailey Gillespie, Valuegenesis 3 tion, 4.6 percent never joined the church, while 100 percent of those in 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% the sample who studied all 12 grades in Adventist education joined the Attending an Adventist school church (see Figure 2). Remaining in the Church Family I grew up in While joining the church is foun - dational, retention is equally impor - Mother’s faith tant. Sadly, many of those who join the Adventist Church subsequently leave the denomination. Over the School weeks of prayer past 50 years (1965-2015), for exam - ple, there have been 34,385,004 ac - cessions in the Adventist Church Father’s faith worldwide. During the same period, 9 13,737,205 people left the church. Grandparent’s faith This represents a net loss of 39.95 percent. In effect, for every 10 people who joined the church, four have Adventist summer camps slipped away. The ratios are no better for young Student weeks of prayer people. In the Youth Retention study that attempted to track more than 1,500 baptized 15- and 16-year-olds Pathfinders in the North American Division for 10 years (1988-1998), results indi - Very much cated that in most of the demo - My Bible teacher graphic groups, at least 40 to 50 per - Not at all cent had left the church by their Bible classes in school mid-20s. 10 Tragically, we are not just losing one of 10 coins, as described in Jesus’ parable. 11 We are losing half of the coins! The question posed by the prophet Jeremiah be - One of the largest studies was tor that had helped them develop comes increasingly poignant: the set of Valuegenesis surveys, con- their religious faith, with the Ad - “Where is the flock entrusted to ducted over a 20-year period, from ventist school ranking more highly you, your beautiful flock?” 12 1990 to 2010. 13 Valuegenesis 1 data than any other factor (see Figure 3). We turn now to the matter of the from 2,267 12th-grade Adventist stu- Across all three Valuegenesis studies retention of children and youth in dents in Adventist schools in the (1990-2010), a full 75 percent of Ad - the Seventh-day Adventist Church. North American Division, for exam- ventist students in Adventist schools Over a span of some 25 years, at ple, showed that the more years of believed that the chances of their re - least seven studies have examined Adventist schooling, the greater the maining in the Adventist Church at the role of Adventist education in re - person’s reported loyalty to the Sev- age 40 were good to excellent. tention, with the most recent re - enth-day Adventist Church, his or We have noted the Youth Reten - search reported in 2014. Some of her belief in the fundamental teach- tion study, which endeavored to fol - these studies have focused on spe - ings of the church, and his or her low high school students for 10 years, cific regional populations, while oth - intention to remain an Adventist at utilizing a sample about evenly di - ers are more global in nature. Some age 40. In the 2010 Valuegenesis 3 vided between students in Adventist present a snapshot in time, while survey, 81 percent of all students in- schools and in non-Adventist schools others have taken a longitudinal ap - dicated that attending an Adventist in the U.S. and Canada. One of the proach. While each has inherent school was the most important fac- key findings of this research was that limitations, as do all studies, to - the number of years in an Adventist gether they present a picture that is school was positively related to com - consistent and clear. mitment to Jesus Christ and to com - http://jae.adventist.org The Journal of Adventist Education • April-June 2017 41 Figure 4. Youth Retention Study Source: Roger L. Dudley study mitment to personal Bible study, as well as to the statements “My rela - Remained in the Adventist Church 10 years later tionship with Christ is stronger now” and “Religion is important in my 9% 14 life.” Furthermore, intention to 35% marry an Adventist in students who Probability attended an Adventist school was of leaving nearly twice the proportion of those the church: who had not attended an Adventist 91% school (83 percent vs.
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