Tips for Worshipping with Older Children

Tips for Worshipping with Older Children


The ideas listed on the page titled Tips for Worshipping with Small Children are also good for older children, but here are some more that older children might benefit from:


Have them follow along in the bulletin.


Have them find the Hymn and sing along.


Encourage them to help an usher or a greeter greet just speak with whomever is doing it that day, they will be eager for a child's help.


Have them bring up the bread and wine at the offertory.Simply go to the back at the passing of the peace and a greeter will hand them vessels to carry to the altar.


Join one of the children's choirs!Our music director Bjorn Gustafson does such a great job, and has 2 choirs for different ages that sing every 4-6 weeks in church.Click here for more on the children's choirs


Is your child a good reader?They can read a lesson in church.Speak with LeeAnne or MiaLisa about how to volunteer and be trained for that ministry.


Have them help you bake bread for the Eucharist.Speak with Ginny DeLuca about how to take a turn making the holy bread.


Have them come to the sacristy after the service and become a junior altar guild member.


Speak with your child on the way to church to see what special needs they might like to remember in prayer that day, or who they might be especially happy to see, or wonder what the Jesus story of the day might be.


Encourage their attendance in our Godly Play program Sundays at 9am.This program teaches the flow of the liturgy, the rhythm of the church year, as well as great Bible stories.


Speak with your child on the way home.What did they see?Hear?Feel?Have questions about?


Thank you for bringing your children to church!