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We've been doing this lately - we rotate monthly who in our community facilitates the meetings we have. For a long time as the pastor, I was doing them all - doing way too much, even in this small simple setting. It got to me and I started realizing it was making me not want to do this and it was doing the others no good to not be "trained" by doing. So, we now rotate. It's been a very good experience and I think we are already richer because of it.
Now, in relation to that, yesterday, after I picked her up from the horse barn from her lesson, my daughter Meaghan (11) asked me for the second time, "Daddy, when do I get to do church?" I mean, she was serious, and we talked about it, and she had real ideas about what to talk about and what to sing, etc. I said, yes she could facilitate the meeting. We'll do that soon. Later that night, some of us were talking about the vbcc website - we have people profiles of all of us (or so I thought) - and she asked if I told about her on the site - "I'm a part of the church too you know" she said. Wow! I've been talking a better show than I've been living on this "include the children" business. This week I will be putting photos and bios on the "who" page of our site for all of the children - they are a part of the church too you know!
| posted by + Alan | 11:56 AM | |