Children's Sunday

About once every quarter of the year, we have a children's Sunday at my church. The songs we sing are usually "fun" ones that have motions, or you sing it really fast, or sing about the basic of God's love for us. In one of the songs, the kids actually make a train and march around the sanctuary. Some of the kids even wave around streamers. The purpose of this is so that we make the kids in our church understand that we love them and that they are as much a part of the church as the "big kids." The kids don't perform or anything like that, (thank goodness-is it bad that I'm not fond of the sound of kids' voices singing??) but the music and message is geared towards them. The speaker, Ed, talked to the kids about the fruits of the spirit. He brought in and even ate some good looking and tasty fruit, as well as some old brown bananas and a mushy kiwi to explain that we shouldn't be like those fruit, but producing fruit in our lives like kindness, gentleness, patience, self-control, etc. So, after missing church (well, my church) for two weeks, I came back to another atypical service. I haven't yet blogged about a typical Sunday at Ephrata Mennonite, but to be honest, there really is no typical Sunday at EMC!