The "Big Dig" Christian apologetics seminar for teens isn't going to stop the bleeding.
The problem for Christians is that there is no god. God is make-believe, and the better educated that young people are, the more likely that they are to realize this.
In every society and in every culture, people have created a god that looks like them, that acts like them, and that has the personality attributes of the people in that society.
That's why, the god of the white males with the beards and the long flowing robes from the Middle East, is a white male with a beard and a long flowing robe, just like them.
The god that is created by black people from Africa who wear few clothes, is a black person who wears few clothes, just like them.
The buddha that is created by people from Asia, who sit with their legs crossed and arms folded and are passive, sits with his legs crossed and arms folded and is passive, just like them.
When people say that they believe in God, what they are doing is making believe that there is a god. God is make-believe.
Here's another way to look at it: God is supposedly a super-natural entity. People who believe in the super-natural are, by definition, superstitious. Atheists are merely people who are not superstitious.
Teach that to the kids at your Christian apologetics Big Dig seminar. I dare ya.
Being an atheist means having nothing to apologize for.
The price of a ticket for Big Dig is $30, but one local venue, Elk Grove Baptist Church, has cut the price all the way back to $10. Apparently, they're having lots of trouble just giving the tickets away. After all, why would any teen want to get up so very early on a beautiful, warm, summer vacation morning, to go to a church and hear about that stuff all day long, beginning at 8 a.m.?
Elk Grove Baptist laments, on Page 2 of their July newsletter, that "over 80% of students who grow up attending good churches will fall away from their faith as young adults." I have a question for Elk Grove Baptist: What's your definition of a bad church, and what percentage of students who go to bad churches fall away from faith as young adults?
Elk Grove Baptist Church also contends, in the next paragraph of that same newsletter, that "over 50% of college professors believe the Bible is a book of myths and fables." So, what's wrong with the other 50%, that they don't realize the same thing?
Atheism: Nothing beats being right!