Babb's group's purpose is to help Kentucky Baptist churches get a handle on the challenges, opportunities and needs presented by the interaction of three distinct generations. As a result, each generation approaches ministry in different, though equally valid ways. Builders, those born between 1930 and 1945, were shaped by the Great Depression, World War II and the Industrial Revolution. As a result, they tend to be fiscally and socially conservative. They dislike borrowing money and place a great deal of trust in institutions and tradition.
Builders are comfortable working through the channels and planning carefully.
Their offspring, the Boomer generation born between 1946 and 1964, have a radically different perspective of the world. Attaining personal happiness is of paramount importance to Boomers. Boomers are interested in ministries that meet personal needs, such as issue-based small groups. Busters, those born between 1965 and 1983, were shaped by such events as the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of their own families. Nearly one-third of all Busters were raised in single parent homes.