"new" Fall Schedule at PFC

We are about to have our third Sunday of morning worship with our new fall schedule. Everything still starts at 10am- but 5th grade and under start downstairs with some worship and fun- and then letter they come up to worship with their families. Then kids head back downstairs for the remainder of their learning time. Some families have kids stay with them in the sanctuary the whole time- thats cool too- it should be a family decision.
We have had a few bumps with the schedule- but we are doing our best so that everyone can learn and grow and worship. We were really aiming to have a worship time that the whole family could experience- the way we have set it up- parents don't have to get there early or stay late- everything starts at the same time and everything ends at the same time. Family friendly is the idea.
We also had our first Sunday evening service last week. It was a blast. It is a shorter, quieter, meditative service with the same sermon. I really enjoyed leading it- I see it growing a bit. Invite friends to it- it is every Sunday at 7pm. If you miss the morning service come to the evening one. Every week communion is offered- so you can also just come for the communion experience which is about the last 10 minutes or so, around 7:50pm.
We are trying to give people more options to worship God- the more options there are the less excuses people can have. One challenge is that a lot of families have so little time where they are all together as a family any more, and we should as a church encourage them to be together and not always seperate them when they get to church. That's one reason why the kids are welcomed to stay in worship if the parents so desire- its also why the kids come up and sing and pray with their families- that should be done all together. Its also why we don't have a youth group, we have a youth and parent ministry- because youth and parents are already seperated from each other enough. Some times churches ADD activities and end up DIVIDING family time- we want anything we ADD to be a real PLUS and not a thing of DIVISION. Who'd known that you can divide by adding too much.
Anyways- I am a pastor not a mathmetician.