What do you do with the kids?
Each Community will be different, but we try to include the children in everything. So usually, depending on their ages, it is good to encourage them to choose the songs for worship, encourage them to take part in testimony or sharing, and have them help when praying for someone. When it comes to studying the Scriptures, the groups will vary. Some provide activities so that the children can just play quietly alongside what is going on with the adults. Others will have a specific activity planned. Yet others will let them play elsewhere under the supervision of a teenager. The variety of possibilities is endless. But the children are not just a part of the church of the future -- they are the church of right now too. As David Walters says, “They have the same Holy Spirit in them as the adults -- not somehow a lesser "kiddie" version.”
