Children’s Sabbath - Sunday, October 16th

Children’s Sabbath weekend engages places of worship across the country in focusing worship on including children at the table and learning more about the urgent problems facing our nation’s children. Children’s Sabbath encourages us to respond with outreach, inclusion, and advocacy, and most importantly, inspire new, year-round action to improve the lives of children

One way we care for our children is by providing for their spiritual needs.  When we welcome children to the table (as we will do this Sunday) we practice outreach and inclusion as well as giving children the opportunity to grow into their spirituality in ways that will allow them to pursue justice beside us.   To learn more about sacraments and children at the table, see below.

May children participate in communion?

The PC(USA) believes that baptized children who are being nurtured and instructed in the significance of the invitation to the Table and the meaning of their response are invited to receive the Lord’s Supper, recognizing that their understanding of participation will vary according to their maturity. Since each child’s development is different, the age of readiness will vary from child to child. The determination of this readiness is primarily the responsibility of the parents, but it is also the responsibility of the whole church to assist parents in fulfilling this responsibility of preparing their children for meaningful participation in Communion. Therefore, our church welcomes children to Communion when their parent(s) feel the child is ready, and in conjunction with instruction from the church about communion--both in worship and in weekly education offerings.