Children’s Church (or How to Fail Your Child)
After we moved, we toured Baptist and non-denominational churches varying wildly in music, preaching and communion, all sharing one mission: keeping children out of the worship service. From detached drop-off buildings to Veggie Tales daycare, just own it and call it what it is.
My church “bubble” was such that I was aware that children’s “church” was a thing, but I never saw it on a regular basis or even knew anyone whose kids actively participated in it.
Then we moved.
Our new church situation was such that unless we wanted to hop on an airplane each Sunday morning (literally), we had to choose between Baptist and non-denominational (“Baptist with a cool website,” as they say).
As a quick aside, we did spend several weeks visiting an Episcopal church, but it was possibly the least welcoming church experience imaginable. We may as well have been the unaware dead characters in The Sixth Sense for all of the interaction we had. We will come back to the Episcopal church in a bit.
The churches we visited varied:
- Loud music vs reasonable
- Good preaching vs ehh
- Weekly communion vs monthly
- Locals vs imports
