The strongest invitation for children to worship God is to see their parents, teachers and significant people encountering and responding to God. This modeling is a powerful encouragement for children who begin to see worship as faith expressed. As parents or caregivers assist children in understanding the elements and form of the worship experience, boys and girls make emotional as well as mental connections with the worshipping community. If they are never in the congregational worship service and do not experience that modeling, they often miss the opportunity to feel that they belong, and that the worship service has anything to do with them. A child also is invited to worship when worship leaders plan services that have meaning for them.
Children use their senses to experience almost everything.
Sounds, sights, movement and even smells and tastes, from time to time, engage children and other worshipers. Children need consistency, even in worship. Some churches decide that a separate children's worship service may be the best experience they can provide for their children. Rotating leaders may be appealing to busy adults, but it is detrimental to the children. Just as adults do not like a rotating preacher in the pulpit each Sunday, children have even a greater need to know their leaders and his or her expectations.