Once the closing prayer has been said, the promotion handed out, and all announcements for the next week gone over, the leaders and children will prepare to be dismissed. Some churches offer an event where children either have a mini-church run at their developmental level or they engage in children s worship. This helps them to learn about worship and understand what is happening in the main church service. The worship service is a gathering of the whole church to worship together. It is not just a children s service, nor an adult service in which children are onlookers.
Worship is for the whole congregation, old, young, single, married, adult and child.
It is necessary to see all members as one group, while being conscious of a diversity of people. This is achieved through the use of overhead, drama and other creative methods of message projection. A time of intergenerational or age-specific discussion groups follow. Take home material is used to provide deeper teaching for adults, teaching input for the family during the week or memory aids for children. Weekly peer group activity is arranged for each age group during the week.