In a motion raised at the recent annual Provincial Standing Committee meeting held in Johannesburg from September 21 to 24, the proposer, the Revd Jacques Pieterse, said that a study should be conducted to "establish the extent to which young people are leaving the church, and their reasons for doing so."
The conversations that ensued after the motion saw different points of view being raised with others suggesting that such a study should also include older members among those that may be leaving the Church.
Committee member and Rector of the Province's College of Transfiguration, Dr Barney Pityana raised another important perspective when he suggested that trends might be different in the white and black communities revealing that when he visited parishes in the black areas, he found "a burgeoning ministry among young people" and that the phenomenon may "only affect white Anglicans".
He added that there should be a study of whether there was "a flight of white people from the Anglican Church, and if so, we need to come to an understanding of why this is happening."
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