- Babies in Church

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Babies in Church

Well, I stumbled across a little more about one of my favorite topics – family integrated worship - and I thought I'd share.

Read about it at Preschoolers and Peace. Note Kendra's reasons for taking her children into worship with her...

I've told many young parents this very thing. Once I tell them the "why" of why our children go to worship with us it is like a lightbulb goes off.

P.S. Confession – I’m still trying to figure out how to integrate Bess. She is still in the nursery because I decided to wait until after Ben was born to start training her. Now that Ben is here I will have to wait until he is no longer in a sling and I have my lap free to hold her if necessary.

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Posted by bbullard

Thanks for sharing this. We have, from time to time when the children weren't well, kept them in service with us. We've not had a problem, and over the years I am amazed at what they pick up, even though they also enjoy a wonderful children's church service as another option. Unfortunately, in visiting churches, I've also experienced some of the negatives of what the article stated as well. We've been forced to sit in the back for bringing our children (who are very well behaved), or encouraged to "leave them someplace else". I think this is a sad statement about what modern-day churches have become. Again, I enjoyed hearing this.

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