Hi Peri. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Doesn’t it make you want to rip your hair out!
*Still being treated like a new comer after 3 years!
*Not being seen as one of the family but as a unique and fascinating creature!
*You are young so you must be the one to run our youth ministry!

Soooo frustrating. We’ve got to do better than this!

But a big pat on the back to you for hanging in there at church and making peace with the imperfections as best you can.
Tom Kerr

It sounds counter-intuitive at first, but older people making such a fuss when a young person visits or starts attending a church can actually be a barrier to inclusion – if you’re always special, everyone’s always so amazed that you’re even there, it is hard to feel like part of the herd.

My wife and I are now at a church where we’re virtually the only under-50s, and have attended services there for about three years, but still get called “visitors” because we attend a couple of times a month rather than once per week.