Whereas  many modern youth are caught up in a tide of revolution brought on largely by the frustration produced in the superficiality and emptiness of the world we have given them, and,

Whereas  youth under the age of 25 represent a significant proportion of our population in the 1970s, and

Whereas  from youth today there may often be heard a prophetic note telling of lost meaning in life, and

Whereas  the essential spiritual nature of their quest is often obscured by the aberrant, violent, unorthodox and sometimes cultic forms of unrest, making it difficult for an older generation to understand the underlying longing,

Be it Resolved that we declare our awareness of youth as one of our greatest resources and that we reassert our confidence in the God-given capability of youth, and

Be it Resolved that we of the Advent Christian General Conference call on our constituency individually and corporately to initiate a new relationship with our youth by listening to them, believing in them, responding to them, and encouraging them with spiritual guidance.

Be it Resolved that we commend the youth on Christian and secular college and university campuses who are demonstrating evangelical leadership during this first year of the 1970s by their open response to the work of the Holy Spirit in public and private testimonies of forgiveness,  healing, and love.

Be it Resolved that we encourage our churches to make available to youth more posts of significant responsibility, and

Be it Further Resolved that we make provision within the Advent Christian General Conference for greater participation by youth in the planning and decision-making processes.