Creating Space for Children and Their Families in Worship
This resource will help church leaders think about ways to be more intentional in including children and their families in worship and the worship space.
Children are a blessing to each worshipping community. The church values the faith formation of our children but that is most often seen in church’s offerings from Vacation Bible School to Sunday School. But after years of having children go off to “their own” separate programming and ministry, worship has become an adult only experience for many congregations and continues to be designed with only adults in mind. The Westminster Catechism states, “The chief end of humanity is to glorify God,” therefore children need to be included in the full faith community and that community’s regular worship experience as an important part of their faith formation.