Leadership, a division of Christianity Today, created the Golden Canon Awards-- the ten books of 2009 most valuable for church leaders. If you're looking to learn and enjoy reading, you'll appreciate this compilation. We were honored to see that Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them made the list as well. LifeWay just released more information on their news site.

Jason Hayes, Richie Stanley, and I wrote Lost and Found to help churches and ministry leaders.

First, we offer a detailed look at the four younger unchurched types. Next, we use our results from research to break some long established assumptions about how to effectively engage the lost. Then, we establish the importance that churched and unchurched young adults place on community, depth of content, social responsibility, and making cross-generational connections. Finally, we also tell the story of churches that are successfully reaching and keeping this generation.

In all of it, we're not just letting people know of the problem-- we're really striving to provide help. As we say in the introduction, it is not entitled Lost and We Just Wanted to Tell You. We called it Lost and Found because we want you to know that lost young adults are being found-- effectively engaged in our culture, coming to faith in Christ, and being incorporated into congregational life.

Order a hardback or get the unabridged audiobook if you're interested.

You can also listen to the audio from my recent talk at an Acts 29 quarterly meeting in Saint Louis where I give a brief overview of the data in the book.