He came to love and to die for children just as for any other person. That's the basis for a child care ministry at Grace Lutheran or any other church. We are not in this to make money, to get popular, to win some prize, and I don't expect some kind of pastoral promotion. Sometimes I lament for what we adults have allowed the world to become. My generation, and the Boomers, have created an environment where families are broken up, either by greed for money and things or by greed for new relationships, and that's to the detriment of our children.
Few parents are at home with the kids any more.
I look at my kids, and at the children in our congregation and day care, and I think, we could have done better. And now we are all gathered here together today and worshiping as one. We come from different religious understandings, but what draws us together is these children, whom we know Jesus loves and died for. Praise the Lord. Thanks be to God.