At our church there is a fill in the blank sermon guide available to everyone. I take the sermon guide and make a four page booklet for the older kids - the cover has a word search using words from the sermon guide, inside is the sermon guide and a part about how to pray since we are doing a series on prayer right now. The back page is random - a place to write a question about the service, a dot to dot to fill in, interesting facts about a sermon series, etc. I want it to be a combination of useful and fun because we all remember how 'boring' church was at that age :-) Sometimes we have had a contest and they bring their filled in sheets to the welcome centre and they could get a simple prize like a sucker.
That is a great letter! One of our members who thinks we are over reacting made a comment about how we don't shake hands but everyone touches the offering bag. I told him I wasn't touching the bag anymore :-)
As a parent with kids with different needs I like the idea of a church hiring a worship service care attendant. There would be a specific person we would connect with who could answer questions and step in and help with no judgement. What kind of training would this person have?
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Thanks for posting the link to the intergenerational church toolkit! I have bookmarked it and look forward to exploring what is all in there.
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At our church there is a fill in the blank sermon guide available to everyone. I take the sermon guide and make a four page booklet for the older kids - the cover has a word search using words from the sermon guide, inside is the sermon guide and a part about how to pray since we are doing a series on prayer right now. The back page is random - a place to write a question about the service, a dot to dot to fill in, interesting facts about a sermon series, etc. I want it to be a combination of useful and fun because we all remember how 'boring' church was at that age :-) Sometimes we have had a contest and they bring their filled in sheets to the welcome centre and they could get a simple prize like a sucker.
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That is a great letter! One of our members who thinks we are over reacting made a comment about how we don't shake hands but everyone touches the offering bag. I told him I wasn't touching the bag anymore :-)
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As a parent with kids with different needs I like the idea of a church hiring a worship service care attendant. There would be a specific person we would connect with who could answer questions and step in and help with no judgement. What kind of training would this person have?