We have another weekend of exciting CW Playhouse Services planned for your kids as we transition to a more specific focus on the life of Jesus in our Young Explorers lessons on Missions. Remember that we are now running full Playhouse services at both SNS (Saturday Night Service) starting at 5:30pm, and SMS (Sunday Morning Service) starting at 10am. But the question is, are you partnering with us to discuss these lessons with your kids at home? Remember that YOU, Mom & Dad, are the primary instructors of your children. It is our job as the church to give you tools and provide opportunity for your kids to exercise their faith and training in ministry. But a couple hours a week at church won't effect your kids much if they're not having that church teaching reinforced at home through intentional time spent in spiritual training and authentic living by their parents all week long.
So be sure to ask your kids for their "Road Map" take-home page every week after service so you can peruse it and see what they've been taught and discuss it with them for 10 minutes. Help them fill in the blanks and sign it for them, then help them not to lose it during the week, so they still have it around to take back to church the following weekend. Maybe you can discuss it again on the way to church the next week too. We encourage your kids to push you from their end to sit down with them and look it over too, by offering them a piece of candy for returning it filled out to Rowdy's Raccoon's Treehouse. So don't let your kids come to church empty handed and watch other kids get that treat, make sure they've got a Bible and a Road Map sheet folded within it's pages when they leave for church this weekend. That's the way to make kids church the most effective tool it can be in your child's life. Anything less increases greatly the risk that your child will sit and be entertained and forget most of what their taught the rest of the week! It can and does happen all the time without parental involvement!
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