Plus we try to take good care of them.

For whatever reason, churches don’t always welcome kids. I guess it goes back to the time of Jesus, when his disciples chased some parents of very little children away from the Master. They knew Jesus was about faith, and they didn’t see how kids could really exercise faith — so they wished they would come back later, when they were old enough to understand. Jesus, of course, disagreed. Disagreed angrily, to be honest. Said that if you don’t enter the kingdom of God like a little child, you can’t enter it at all. No question that Jesus loved children, and wanted his church to welcome them, too.

At New Church, our program isn’t a big program, but the real value of it is that the kids are cared for and taught about Jesus in small classes, with excellent teachers, in an atmosphere where they are surrounded by the whole church family, and get to experience the excitement of contemporary worship with their parents. Read on…