The statistics are in and they are as disappointing as they are predictable: the people most likely to be making decisions for the United Methodist Church are those who will spend the least amount of time living with the consequences.
According to data from the GCFA, the delegates to the last General conference were overwhelmingly older in age. The largest single decade of delegates were those in their 50s who composed 36% of all the delegates present. If you take all those who have more of their life (on average) behind them than ahead of them (those 40+), you reach an astonishing 85%. When it comes to the youngest group (those under twenty) you get 4. Not 4%, but 4 total delegates (or 0.6%). This is a problem.
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