![]() ![]() I knew how intent they were on finding the “candy lady” after church, and the ease in which they participated in small group gatherings and church-wide fellowships. ![]() ![]() Of course, I knew how my children adored the teenagers and college students who had played with them. It wasn’t until a return trip to Waco after moving to Oklahoma that I realized the impact that intergenerational relationships were having on my kids. For my kids, who literally grew up in these two church plants with no youth group or even other kids their ages, God instilled in them a love for the church comprised of all aged people who they knew to be their brothers and sisters in Christ (Romans 12:5). He used our time in our Waco church and later the Oklahoma church we planted to replace my felt needs with a greater love for the local church filled with people who were not all like me. As a big city girl accustomed to mega-churches, I had not exactly envisioned moving to a smaller town to join a church that met in a school with only a handful of other families as the ideal ministry opportunity.īut God, in his goodness, knew what was best for our family. Our oldest child was not quite three and our middle child was a newborn when my husband was called to be the Youth and Family Pastor of a church-plant in Waco, Texas. ![]()
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