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Baby Boomers Retirement

A Church Garden This is one of the evangelism resources written initially in in 1998 to encourage the church to transform its ministry and to examine its human resource in the Twenty First Century in order to meet the challenges of demographic change. "The Demographic Shift" looks at the effect of aging on the Baby Boom Generation and its consequences on the Christian Church in North America and particularly on the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. 7 Pages.

Ministry in the Future. The shape of the church at the beginning of the Third Millennium is of interest to us but the real impact will come in the year 2018 A.D. This year will form ministry in our church for the following fifty or more years but will also profoundly affect its shape between now and then. It is an important date because it marks a change of lay leadership, a demographic shift, when the "Elders" will be gone from power and the "Baby Boomers" will have taken over.

Canadian Baby Boomers

The top end of the Baby Boom generation in Canada will be sixty years old in 2008 A.D. and in 2018 A.D. will have replaced the Elders who will then be seventy and over. All of the mainline churches in Canada will be affected by this phenomenon, in different ways. Let me have David Rando explain the Baby Boom Phenomena in the United States, with my thanks for his words and his eloquence.

U.S. Baby Boomers

From 1946 to 1964, 78 million new Americans were born. It was a population explosion, and this generation came to be known as the baby boomers. The boomers' hard work fuelled the rapid expansion of the U.S. economy over the last 40 years. Now this generation is beginning to reach retirement age. In 2006, the first set of baby boomers reached age 60, with 4 million baby boomers set to turn 60 each year after that for the next 18 years.

1 "Boomers: Twisting The Retirement Mindset" (August 7, 2007 By David Rando, JD, CLU, ChFC)

This generation is beginning to reach retirement age

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