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Is the Church Driving a Wedge In Our Families?
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Back in the 60s, Billy Graham asserted that the eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour of the week. Of course, he was talking about racial and ethnic issues, but there is another segregation that has been going on in church for many years: the segregation of our households. Today in many, if not most, of our church's worship services, our kids stay with their parents until _________. In some churches, that blank is just after the children's chat. In others, it is until mom or dad walks the tot to the nursery or Kid's Church in another part of the building. Today's church is sadly notorious for adding to the fragmentation of the family. Why not? Fragmentation is part-and-parcel of our Western society.
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Family Friendly Small Groups
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Isaiah 41:4 says, "Who has prepared and done this, calling forth and guiding the destinies of the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord - the first and with the last - I am He" (Amplified Bible). As the generations were created by the Almighty God, "what God has joined together, let no man put asunder"!
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The Many Ways to Include Children in Your Community Life
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The greatest issue for small groups that want to bring younger families together is how to include children or to provide childcare. Lorna Jenkins says: “In churches where small groups are the basic growing units for the adult congregation, the children need the same context for growth, a place to find peer acceptance within their spiritual family…A group of children who are walking together in the Christian way have a profound effect upon each other.” – Lorna Jenkins, Children’s Cell Groups
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Welcoming Children Into Community
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We had tried a half-dozen babysitters during our meetings. We had tried letting children play without a sitter. We had tried keeping them in the meetings with us. Nothing we tried worked very well for very long. The “babysitting problem” stubbornly resisted solution.
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Developing Children's Small Group Curriculum
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As I travel all over the world I am repeatedly asked about materials for the children’s small group/cell meetings or for the children in the “Kids Slot” of an intergenerational cell.
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Five Fundamentals of Student Small Group Discipleship
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In the last several years, small group discipleship has caught on significantly in many progressive churches across America. But many youth ministries got a jump on the rest of the Body of Christ.
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Childcare or Small Groups?
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If parents were expected to come, there would also be children. How were we to get over this hurdle?
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Kids and Small Groups - Handling Difficult Children
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I have found that many leaders of small groups think that children will bring with them difficulties that can only be resolved by having an "expert" on hand.
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Assimilating Children in Cells
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Assimilation--moving people (adults, young people and children) from larger groups to smaller groups.
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Ministering to Children & Youth in a Two-Chop Stick Church
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We often refer to the church where I serve as a "two-chop stick church." Other people would call us a cell church, but I prefer the picture that comes from identifying ourselves as a two-chop stick church.
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