Children and Worship
COME AND WORSHIP!
PRACTICE | PREPARE | PARTICIPATE | PROMISE | PLAN
Putting worship skills into practice
The word "liturgy" means "work of the people" and that's what we do when we come together to worship God - we work!
In Sunday school, children age 3 through grade 5 learn basic worship skills. Parents, please assist your child in putting his/her worship skills into practice. Attend worship together!
PRACTICE in the car on the way to worship!
- Have a grown-up say, "The Lord is with you."
Have the children respond, "AND ALSO WITH YOU." - Have a grown-up say, "Go in peace. Serve the Lord."
Have the children say, "Thanks be to God." - Say the Lord's Prayer together.
- Sing the refrain for "This is the Feast" together.
PREPARE for worship!
Pick up a worship bulletin and a Children's Worship Bag in the narthex.
Look up and mark your green and/or blue hymnals with the 2 or 3 hymns for the service. (Remember, hymns are songs that have "big" numbers at the top of the page.)
PARTICIPATE in worship!
- Stand when the congregation stands.
- Sit when the congregation sits.
- Kneel when the congregation kneels.
- Listen when the congregation listens.
- Pray when the congregation prays.
- Sing when the congregation sings.
- Join in the Children's Message at the front of the sanctuary.
- Save the contents of your Children's Worship Bag until the sermon. Then, quietly do the activities in the worship bag WHILE you listen to the pastor preach.
- Participate in the Sacrament of Holy Communion by either receiving a blessing or receiving Christ's body and blood in the form of wafer and wine.
PROMISE to take something home with you
(more than just the worship bulletin)!
- Talk about ways that worship has changed your way of thinking this morning.
- Think of someone who was not at worship that you might want to talk to this week.
- Tell someone else what God has done for you and your family.
PLAN to return to worship again next week!
