On September 10, The Connected Generation project launched with the Faith for the Future webcast, a live, free event where leaders from Barna and World Vision revealed main findings—some sobering, some hopeful—uncovered by this global data. The team was joined by panels of experts and ministers as well as viewers from 88 countries and six continents.

Below, explore highlights from the data and the webcast, which will be available as a free replay until March 1, 2020, and click here if you’re interested to see how other faith leaders are using this data in their context.

Effective Ministry in an Anxious Age Four in 10 18–35-year-olds around the world—and, among some demographic groups, many more—report being uncertain about the future or anxious about important decisions. Faith practice and vocational & financial security are strong predictors of emotional well-being.

“There’s great encouragement because we’re living in a generation where people really want to make a difference. They want their lives to make an impact around the world. But yet, we don’t have an understanding about what it means to go deep and what it means to have a theology of the marathon. Sometimes, we can be so enamored about appearing a certain way that we don’t do that deep substantive work.” —Eugene Cho on Casting Hope for the Next Generation