Our First Family Church Service

We had our first family church service a few days ago at the insistence of our four year old. She said she wanted to “preach.” So, we all gathered up in a room and sat down to listen. This is the point where things deviated slightly from the norm…

Claire Grace decided that we should dance as a part of worship before delivering the homily. So she went to get the radio player out her room. We all stood up and got ready to dance. Claire Grace turned on the radio and “Hot for Teacher” by Van Halen came screaming across the airwaves. Of course, Claire Grace and Annagale thought this song was perfectly conducive to practicing ballet, so we all began to do pirouettes to Eddie’s shreddin’ guitar solo.

Next, Claire Grace asked the congregation to do cartwheels for Jesus. The girls performed one each while Mom and Dad declined.

Finally, it was time for the delivering of God’s holy Word. At this point Claire Grace decided she’d had all the church she could stand and stepped down from her ecclesiastical role. Annagale happily took over. Annagale provided us with sound doctrine, stating that Jesus was very strong and that he lived in a castle.

Annagale then said she had a surprise for all the faithful attendants that evening. She held her hands out communion style and walked forward to Beth. “Oh, are we taking communion?” Beth asked as she reached forward and grabbed a pretend piece of bread and ate it. Annagale said, “NO! It’s a baby cat! Don’t eat it!!”

Seeing no other reason to continue out church service (with the cat-eating and guitar shreddin’ and all…) we adjorned for a time of personal spiritual reflection and a Digiorno’s pizza.