An Epic Journey

As part one of our three part series on our family philosophy at Epic Church, I wanted to highlight the fact that we don’t want families to be passive participants in the process, but we want every generation to be truly engaged in age appropriate ways.

We are planning on accomplishing this in a couple of ways.

1. Service: At Epic, we believe you grow through serving.  No, scratch that, we believe everyone grows through serving - your kids included.  There are plenty of ways kids can begin serving today and learning how to use their gifts and talents for the Kingdom of God.  This can be as simple as working with their mom to hand out bottles of water to over-heated passer-byers.  We envision kids helping pass out programs at church, helping set up and tear down, running computers, helping paint an elderly person’s house, and so much more!
2. Connect to God through Worship: We want families to feel comfortable worshiping together.  We love it when babies cry, and kids talk - we are in this for the family!  We don’t want you to ever feel like you need to split up your family to go to church.  This is not to say that your children are not more than welcome to attend our dynamic children’s program, we just want you to understand we love having kids in worship and strive to make it something that is enjoyable for them as well as for you!
3. Connect to People through Small Groups: Life is too difficult to do on our own, but if you are like our family it’s also too difficult to find time to do it with other people.  That is why we intentionally carve out time every week to spend with some of our closest friends to eat together, play games together, share insights into raising our families, and to grow in our relationship with God together!  There is no better way to safe-guard your family than to get involved with a small group!

We know that involving kids so heavily in the adult aspect of church sounds a little messy, and if we are being honest, it is.  Tomorrow’s post deals with this issue of having kids at the table when we are together at church!