Some churches cancel Sunday school, put parents in charge

(RNS) Don't look for children's Sunday school classes at Ridgewood
Church in Port Arthur, Texas. And forget about scavenger hunts and water
park trips: the youth ministry is no more.//
Sound like a dying church?

No, it's a family-integrated congregation, whose leaders wanted
parents -- rather than Sunday school teachers and youth ministers -- to
spiritually train their children. Driven by statistics about youth
leaving church after high school, they've turned to the Bible as their
sole educational text and shunned age-segregated structures.

"Nobody disagrees that there's a problem," said Ridgewood's Pastor
Dustin Guidry, whose church started the transition seven years ago.