Is it possible to run Youth Alpha without the weekend or day?
A. No – it wouldn’t be Alpha. We’ve found that the weekend or day with teaching on the Holy Spirit is one of the most crucial parts of the course. Interestingly, the Methodist Church did a survey a while ago of all the churches that were running Alpha, and they found that there were a handful of churches where Alpha was not working that well, and there were also a handful of churches that had cut out the weekend or the day on the Holy Spirit. It turned out that they were the same churches.
