If your leaders ======>

[laterunner]

==== were bold enough to have an open & free Q & A session what might you like to ask them?? E.G.==>

Why does the music have to be so loud.??

What suggestion have you for fully intergrating the various age ranges of the church.??

Could we have at least one Sun. in the month as a family sevice including the children??

Why don't we have a more open area with out the pews to make things more friendly & less prone to people having ''Their'' own seat.?

[canny]

What suggestion have you for fully intergrating the various age ranges of the church.??

All age ranges are fully integrated where I attend, our choir, bellringers, accolytes, thurifer etc., we also have a children's version of the Mass so they can join in.

Could we have at least one Sun. in the month as a family sevice including the children??

Every Sunday, the sung Mass is a family service, children can read the lesson if they are so inclined, we also have one Sunday a month where the brownies guides and rainbows take the prayers and lessons, they are the welcomers and take the collection.

Why don't we have a more open area with out the pews to make things more friendly & less prone to people having ''Their'' own seat.

I cant say much about that coz I got a label on mine , But my suggestion would be to get there a little earlier and sit anywhere you fancy,, not in my seat tho

[Robert Cragg]

Some people are to stiff necked an OT term. They forget we are not at church to be entertained. We are there to praise and honor the Lord.
However I do believe in childrens church, and a crying room for those with babies. They can have the sermon piped in so the parents can hear it.
This is my opinion.

[canny]

Oh, no, I wouldnt exclude anyone Robert, I would not attend anywhere that excluded children, that would lead to excluding someone with Torretts, or someone with a vocal tic, or someone with brain damage that has on occasion not control over their vocals... or me, for pondering my shopping list,,, I may not do it out loud, but its the same realm...

[laterunner]

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[Lily]

Some people are to stiff necked an OT term. They forget we are not at church to be entertained. We are there to praise and honor the Lord.
However I do believe in childrens church, and a crying room for those with babies. They can have the sermon piped in so the parents can hear it.
This is my opinion.

I don't agree Robert.

"And they brought young children to Him, that He should touch them: and His disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, He was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God"
Mark 10:13-14

[Robert Cragg]

Oh, no, I wouldnt exclude anyone Robert, I would not attend anywhere that excluded children, that would lead to excluding someone with Torretts, or someone with a vocal tic, or someone with brain damage that has on occasion not control over their vocals... or me, for pondering my shopping list,,, I may not do it out loud, but its the same realm...

The way some churches do it is they have a crying room behind a large window in the back of the sancurary that is sound proof, the room has spearkers so the parents can see and hear the whole service.
Some places where I've been the parents let their kids run up and down the aisiles, if they kept them under control it would be ok, and if people have babies that start screaming, they shoul get up and leave the sanctuary until they have the baby under control. Oh well I quess I getting to be and old foggy,

[canny]

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[Wabco]

I would say, why do we have to have so many songs....

But I find God more in the silence and pretty pictures on the screen.


that is only one, I would have a few more. Why arn't there more non - christians sitting in church? But only God can answer that.

[Lily]

I would say, why do we have to have so many songs....

But I find God more in the silence and pretty pictures on the screen.


that is only one, I would have a few more. Why arn't there more non - christians sitting in church? But only God can answer that.

My very wicked Son asked a question at a funeral once when the Priest said, " we will now sing hymn number 647 on a hill far away "
Luke whispered to me " can't we stay ere and sing it ? "
That was it, I was WEAK