When I became chairman of our branch church’s Children’s Room committee, I gave much prayerful thought to this activity and what should be done to support it in the best way.
From this spiritual perspective, what came to me was the need to firmly establish in thought the truth about children in their relationship to Church. It seemed essential to see children as God’s ideas—complete and developed, fully receptive to and capable of expressing all that man, the image and likeness of God, is. It also seemed important not to see children as a separate, subordinate category of the church membership who need to wait, grow up, and mature in order to have a capacity to understand and reflect God.
Paralleling this work, I spent a lot of time looking into the ways that other churches handled their children’s room activity. I talked with other committee members, as well as with parents and children, and gathered information on various types of facilities and equipment. I surveyed the field of children’s religious literature, music, and video tapes, collecting a large number of catalogues and sample products.
