Parents choose our church because they can be with their children in ministry settings. Children and teens meet with the adults during group meetings for relationship-building icebreakers, worship, and prayer times. When the children in the fifth grade and younger are excused for their own Bible study, a different set of adults leads them each week in another room. Growth groups are encouraged to invest one day per month in a community service project. Children and teens participate, too.
Children discover they have surrogate spiritual grandparents.
It is important to the people at Wellspring that the generations worship together, so they offer only one service style. The service offers lots of choruses and a few hymns. Godparents for grownups Many of the people of First Baptist Church of Ephrata, Washington, wanted a closer walk with God. It started in a weekend workshop led by church renewal expert Richard Bergstrom. Each made a personal time-line.