I’m “technically” a Gen-Xer, but not really. I wasn’t even in high school when the term was coined at it originally affect those early 90s when the country was in a recession and you had a lot of unemployed 18 to 30-somethings who taking more and more college courses or were still living at home with their parents. I mean, Bill Gates is considered Gen-X and there’s a huge gap in our ages.

That said, about the church folk reaching out to the “hip hop generation,” that is just laughable. I get that they want to appeal to the young folks but this does smack of a day late and a dollar short.

Also I don’t know how well it will work considering children and teens are very good at detecting BS. Youth is all about being cool. Hanging out in your church basement with a novice Christian Rapper named MC Saved is not cool. Personally, I think churches would be better off finding things fun for kids to do and then sprinkling in some Jesus, like having lock-ins at roller skating rinks, junior hosting basketball tournaments, carnivals, dances and non-nasty dance competitions. Talent competitions. Dance Dance Revolution game nights. Create a fun, safe place after school for them to hang out and do homework (which would be GREAT for latchkey kids).

It’s a fact that there is very little out there for kids to do where they can get together, be safe and have fun. (Everyone HATES kids!) In St. Louis they’ve officially kicked them out of all the malls and I hate to break it to the parents but if there is no safe, public place for your kids to mingle they will go over to their friends house, get high off of whatever prescription drugs are there, binge drink alcohol then have gross unprotected sex. Because when I lived in Cali the “Pill Party Turned Orgy” thing was pretty popular with the kids.