Our Church Rocks!!

This Sabbath marked the eighth annual celebration of our Church Children’s Sabbath. It really was a special day! The children participated of a worship service prepared specifically for them and the day ended with a very fun Carnival Party. I really felt God’s blessings throughout the day and was happy we accomplished all the goals we had for this program and went even beyond our expectations.

As I was uploading the pictures into my computer that night it struck me that for my girls participating in church is so second nature, they do not look at it as anything out of the ordinary. Even I have to admit I have never even created a scrapbook page about the different programs and activities the girls have participated.

You would think with church life being such an important part of our lives their scrapbooks would be full of pages documenting those activities, but not even one page have I made. It scares me to think that I am inadvertedly passing the message to the girls that what we do in church is not our real life. Documenting birthday parties, holidays, vacations, those are worth of scrapbook pages and documenting, but participating in church is not part of our “main life”.

I hope that is not the case. I hope the girls do see their involvement in church as something special and worthy. I think they do. Just yesterday, Kaitlin had a friend over for a play date, they were talking about church and the different activities they have, and she told her friend, “I wish you would attend our church, it’d be so great to have my friend there”. Her friend replied with, “Why don’t YOU come to my church?” Kaitlin’s answer was “because my church ROCKS, they really care about the children and we are always doing activities.” Then I also heard her brag a little saying “my mom is the Children’s Ministries director.”

However, the realization that I might be passing on the wrong message really gave me a wake up call. I do not want them to grow up leading double lives, the church life and then our “real life”. I want the two to be merged; I want them to realize that our spiritual life should be our “real” life and what directs and gives meaning to everything we do.