For the next several weeks, we’re going to be thinking about ways we might adapt to the needs of different groups, but we’re going to be thinking at a level even more elementary than our inclusion statement: age. It didn’t feel necessary to put in our statement that we wanted to be welcoming to all ages, because of course we do. But today I want to ask, What does that mean? What does it mean for a church to be welcoming for both senior adults and children? Baby Boomers and Millennials? Preschoolers and teenagers? Because, to take this last example, the faith of a teenage is not the same as the faith of a toddler. We hope. So how do we provide a place of worship and growth and ministry for both? And will that involve, possibly, changing some things?
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