Posted by PS on October 31, 2002 at 11:07:44:
In Reply to: Re: Children's church my stickt posted by phunkle kitten on October 31, 2002 at 10:51:26:
: : Hey, I have an idea about the children's church thing that might work if enough people will help.
: : What if we had teaching for the kids it at 2:00-3:15, BEFORE the main church service? Then people could come early and help with it.
: : Then during our church time 3:30-5:30 the kids could just watch a good movie or something. They would get teaching earlier.: hey that would be awesome...yeah the young ones should be getting some kind of teaching at there level maybe some kind of cool craft as well..and some kind of non sugar'd snack...
: i was talking to the boys..raul rhino marcos etc..during the main service time we would have a rotating shift like one person could take a sunday and keep an eye on the kids that way those with kids can have one day where they can chill out. so there ya go my thoughts on a sibling matter:
That's a cool idea. However, due to the recent child abuse epidemic in churches and potential legal problems, we can't have just one single guy doing it. Ideally, having a girl and a guy or two girls is best, but at the very least we need two guys, so there is no situation where only one single male is with the kids. These are the situations that are most frequently associated with child sexual abuse lawsuits and that we need to avoid.
It is important to start off on the right foot with the kids teaching program and with the subsequent "fun time" during service, because if our program is successful, it will grow, and we need to be ready for this possibility and avoid all appearance of evil as much as possible.