One day my two young grandsons were visiting, and I had a church lecture meeting to attend. I had no one to leave the boys with, so the solution was to take them with me. We packed up a good “picnic snack” for them and headed to church. I set up the two boys, ages 5 and 6½, in childcare room with plenty of toys to enjoy along with the snack bag. I was close by in another room.
The meeting went on a bit longer than intended, and my grandsons began to venture out into a patio area and brought the toys along with them. “Time to wrap it up,” I thought. We brought the toys back into the play room, cleaned up the snack crumbs, and started to head home.
As we left, our Reading Room librarian said to me, “Be sure to thank the boys for their church work today.” At first I was puzzled by her comment. Then it dawned on me: Church work comes in a variety of forms, all of which benefit the spiritual growth of church members and the larger community. My two grandsons contributed to lecture work that day by playing quietly and respectfully, and by staying in their appropriate place so the committee could focus on selecting a lecturer and a topic. Their “work” that morning was just as important as our work had been.
