Christian by Birth or Rebirth?: Generation and Difference in an Indian American Christian Church

Dissatisfied with the way the church was meeting their needs, some of the younger generation members of the St. Thomas church of Bethelville¹ formed a youth focus group in 1998 to analyze the problems and come up with suggestions for reform, which they then planned to present before the congregation...

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Zusammenfassung:	Dissatisfied with the way the church was meeting their needs, some of the younger generation members of the St. Thomas church of Bethelville¹ formed a youth focus group in 1998 to analyze the problems and come up with suggestions for reform, which they then planned to present before the congregation. “We met in the classroom behind the church every month. We started with the basics, what is our church about, what is the purpose of a church? We also went on field trips to a few churches. I kept theAchen[pastor] closely informed about everything. But the adults in