C&W Questionnaireupdated: Thursday January 3, 2008
WEPC Children’s Ministry
“To partner with parents in bringing the gospel to bear in every facet of our children’s lives”
1. What do you think of the above line as a mission statement for what we are hoping to accomplish in children’s ministry overall?
2. What principles or key ideas should our church consider as we think about our children in worship (in both children’s worship and corporate worship)?
3. How can WEPC help you as a parent in raising a child who desires to worship God?
4. What do you think of the experience that children have in worship (both in Children’s Worship or corporate worship) in WEPC?
5. Are you familiar with what age children come into corporate worship for part or the entire time? (At 4 years old they are in the first part, and at 2nd Grade they are in the whole service.)
6. Why do you think WEPC has 2nd graders and up remain in the entire corporate worship?
7. What do you think of the church’s policy of having 2nd Graders and up for all of corporate worship?
8. What do you enjoy about having your child in corporate worship?
9. Is there anything difficult or distracting about having your own child in corporate worship?
10. What do you enjoy about having children in general in corporate worship?
11. Is there anything difficult or distracting about having children in general in corporate worship?
12. If you have a child in (or have had) Children’s Worship, tell us how that has helped prepare them for being a part of corporate worship?
13. How would you assess your child’s(ren) engagement with the various parts of the corporate worship?
(1) little engagement
(3) a little
(5) 50/50
(7) significant engagement
(10) totally into
Singing ________
Baptism _____________
Ministry updates ______________
Lord’s Supper ______________
Prayer _______________
Children’s Sermons _____________
Sermon __________________
Comments: _____________________________________
14. How can the church help your children engage more in the corporate worship?
15. How can the church better equip you for having your kids in the corporate worship?
16. If your child(ren) uses the Children’s Sermon Sheets, are they helpful in corporate worship? At home? Please explain your answers.
17. What are you doing at home before corporate worship to prepare yourself and your children for corporate worship?
18. What are you doing post-corporate worship to follow up as a family to corporate worship?
19. Of any issue, how important is children in corporate worship to you?
(1) “don’t think about it a lot,”
(2) “think sometimes about it,”
(3) “important,”
(4) “an issue that is very vital to me,”
(5) “the most important issue about church to me.”