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Church leaders compete with time demands to usher in young people

High school students bow their heads in prayer during Fusion at Lakewood Baptist Church, a mid-week worship service on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, that aims to get more young people involved in the church. - photo by David Barnes

04012018 GENERATIONS 02.jpg — High school students bow their heads in prayer during Fusion at Lakewood Baptist Church, a mid-week worship service on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, that aims to get more young people involved in the church. - photo by David Barnes

Quite a few things have changed since the Rev. Scott Hearn was in church at Belvedere United Methodist in Decatur in the 1970s. He was young then, and said he went to church and Sunday school on Sunday mornings, choir practice on Sunday afternoons, youth group in the evenings and Bible study on Wednesdays.