The culture of our world has changes rapidly. A few years ago, families were primarily two-parent homes that were led by the parents, driven by the parents’ schedules, and catered to the needs of the parents and their jobs. Children were to be “seen and not heard” and were in many ways subservient to adults. Churches followed the dictates of the culture. Services were led by adults, driven by parents’ schedules, catering to the needs of adults and their jobs. What is differen

SO, I’m going to address an elephant in the room: children’s ministry versus child care. And I’m not talking about people VIEWING your ministry as childcare- that’s bad enough. I’m talking about actual childcare for church events. There is this battle raging in churches across the United States right now, and it’s directly related to children’s ministry and recruiting. Sometime in the late 1980s, when the church-consumer mentality hit its peak, the church began offering fre