The Evidence-Based Leadership Development Question

Executive summary

Adventist youth ministry leadership operates largely on intuition, tradition, and personal experience rather than systematic evidence. Youth directors plan events based on historical precedent, pastors design programmes based on what they experienced as teenagers, and conferences allocate budgets based on tradition rather than outcome data. Meanwhile, the evidence is stark: approximately **836,905 people left the church in 2023** alone, with a net loss rate of **42.5% over the past 60 years** ([...