Thread: Christian moms, do you practice "family worship"?

Quote: Originally Posted by mommyshannon Our church has a Sunday school hour and then an worship hour. Our children go to their own SS class (the baby stays with me), but we all go to Worship together. Our church offers a nursery for ages 0-5 and a children's church for ages K-6th grade, but we rarely use them. I do use the nursery occasionally when the toddlers are especially squirmy. I just feel like we come to church to worship with...

Re: Christian moms, do you practice "family worship"? Quote: Originally Posted by Celeste I thought about bringing coloring books/etc. to keep DD busy. But then, what is the point of family worship? Do you use it just to teach your kids to sit still? To me, I think I may wait until DD will not just sit still, but also listen to the sermon. I don't know. I'm conflicted about it at times! Right now, we're just...

Re: Christian moms, do you practice "family worship"? Quote: Originally Posted by mikabryce Our church has nursery till age 3. At age two they may attend Sunday School (before regular service) and at age 3 may attend Junior Church with the 3-5 YO's. The 6 yo and up junior church goes till at least 4th grade. My dd (11) still attends occasssionally if she is feeling too antsy to sit still (she has attention issues) and...

Re: Christian moms, do you practice "family worship"? My older two, 10 and 6 have Faith Formation from 9am-10am They have grades or seperate classrooms for ages. We come back to get them around 10am where we then decide depending on the mood of our 2 year old if he will go to Mass or the nursery. USUALLY they ALL sit with us through Mass. But sometimes the boys are cranky and we let them go to the nursery. My dd who is 10...

I'm surprised at the number of churches that don't include the children in your service. Is that a very typical Protestant/non-denominational thing? How do the older kids do when they start going to service? I serve as an EMoHC one month a quarter and I can actually leave my 4,6 and 8 year olds in the pew by themselves (when DH is working and has to attend separately from us) while I serve and they do just fine, even when the oldest...

Re: Christian moms, do you practice "family worship"? Our children stay with us until they are about 5 or 6 mo and then go to the nursery until they are about 5yrs old. We have all the children in the Sanctuary for the first 15min or so and then anyone 5 and under go to the nursery. My boys have always stayed when they were tiny though because they feed on demand and I hate to be pulled out of service to let them eat because...

Re: Christian moms, do you practice "family worship"? Our church has nursery till age 3. At age two they may attend Sunday School (before regular service) and at age 3 may attend Junior Church with the 3-5 YO's. The 6 yo and up junior church goes till at least 4th grade. My dd (11) still attends occasssionally if she is feeling too antsy to sit still (she has attention issues) and helps as needed. I have tried keeping...

Re: Christian moms, do you practice "family worship"? Ours stay in the nursery til they are 4. It has a paid nursery attendant that is the same every week, and a volunteer that rotates. DD has much more fun in there, and would not get anything out of church. They have chapel at her preschool, so she attends then. The church I went to growing up had Sunday school during the second service to give parents the option to send...

Re: Christian moms, do you practice "family worship"? We have Sunday School, Jr High and High School group during the same time as main church. We have 3 services, so I suppose we could do family worship, but I guess I mainly pray with my kdis at home.. Great food for thought! __________________ Hi! I'm Dawn. Wife and no label mama times three.

Re: Christian moms, do you practice "family worship"? I don't think I stayed with my mom in services until I was 9 or 10 and able to sit still and easily read from the bible and we will probably do the same with our kids. It was still only an occasional occurrence until I was in jr. high. __________________ ~ artsy christian mama to three boys and co-pilot to Joel for 13yrs Connor (6) Riley (5) and Daniel (3)...