Children in the way?

Dave Fenton  |  Features  |  Youth Leaders
Date posted:  1 Jul 2005
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Not an original title but one pinched from a report published a few years ago to examine the place of children in church.

Visiting churches can be fun. There you will find a whole variety of ways of what people do with children and young people.

It stretches from those who never have children in a church service (all under 18s go straight to their groups) to the church which insists that all children over 11 sit in church through a full length service. It is quite common to find children attending their groups before or after the morning service and to also be in that service for the whole time. The children get twice as much as the adults.

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