
So apparently I didn’t know that the term tween seems to be way more popular and more widely used than preteen. I would say about 80% of the people that I talked to this week at the Orange Conference asked me about tween ministry instead of preteen ministry. Who knew?
So what does this mean for me? Well first it means some research, honestly this might seem like a small deal to you (it probably is to everyone but me
) but I claim to at least have a clue about tween ministry or preteen ministry and it would seem that I couldn’t even get the correct terminology!
So when you are talking about 4th, 5th, and 6th graders or the 10-12 age range, what word do you use to describe the age group: tween or preteen?