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The Primary School Child At Worship

The school-age child brings some new abilities to worship:
  • a greater capacity for attentive listening
  • an increasing ability to read
  • the ability to organize and memorize information

Parents help the primary child toward greater participation in worship as these dapacities develop when they:

Help in the memorization of the Lord’s Prayer and other parts of the liturgy.

Review the leaflet with the child to identify new or difficult words and preview together those parts where the congregation responds by reading and speaking.

Invite the child to follow the reading of the Scripture Lessons in the lectionary leaflet

Find hymns in the Hymnal and go over the words.

Talk about the sermon and ask the child what she or he remembers best about it.

Encourage the child to listen to the sermon for stories, answers to questions, or important thoughts.

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141 South County Road, Palm Beach, Florida 33480
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