Caution: The sample size below is very small and can only be analyzed for general trends, not statistical significance.  The sample size is 27 (where the range of error is approximately +/- 20%), or 39% of the congregational families.  The instructions for this section specified that parents were to indicate which activities their sons/daughters would be interested in, not what the parents were interested in their children doing.

  Existing Activity                 Participation Level                        Preferred Place for Activity

	Very Likely	Somewhat likely	Not likely	Church	Members' Homes	Church-based Living Room	Multi-purpose Activity Area	Other
Spiritual Youth Programme (i.e. Faith exploration)	22%	37%	41%	11%	4%	22%	15%	7%
Community Service (i.e. Christmas Care. packing food, etc)	41%	33%	26%	11%	0%	15%	48%	4%
Social Activities (i.e. rafting, skiing, hosting other groups)	44%	30%	26%	4%	4%	15%	33%	18%

 

• The activities that youth said they were very likely to do were Community Service and Social activities

• The preferred place for youth activities was more likely to be a Multi-purpose Activity Area.  Other areas that were mentioned for youth activities were: a youth area (if one could be created) or wherever appropriate for the specific activity.