This course engages academic learning and practical application regarding retention and the stopping of attrition in the local church. Academic material will cover eight main foundational elements of effective missiology within the NextGen: (1) Generation Z, (2) Effective Discipleship and Spiritual Formation (3) Adolescent Communal Life: The Power of Social Networks and Human Capital, (4) The Impact of a lethal faith: The importance of generational apologetics, (5) Effective Adolescent Communication, (6) Strategic Parent and Family Faith Qualities, (7) The Potent Role of Religious Experience, (8) The crucial moment: Adolescent conversion theories.