The 2018 Synod will consist of clerics talking to clerics, plotting with clerics against other clerics, debating issues of the same relevance as how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and then the synod will produce some document of intense interest to clerics and very small number of church-watchers.  The youth, by and large, will continue to drift away because they don't see the point in joining an organization that traces it hallowed traditions and teachings to the middle ages while occasionally referencing Jesus, but never imitating him.