"Well, the family planning

services reduce cost. They reduce

cost. The states are in terrible
fiscal budget crises now and part
of what we do for children's
health, education and some of
those elements are to help the
states meet their financial needs.
One of those - one of the
initiatives you mentioned, the
contraception, will reduce costs
to the states and to the federal
government.“
 “How do we as a church, as a
covenant community created by the
work of Jesus Christ, be counter-
cultural when it comes the children
that we have been entrusted with?”
Deuteronomy 6:4 – 7
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“Here fix your center; here direct
your aim; here concentrate your
efforts, your energies, and your
prayers. Remember, their
religious education is your
business. Whatever aids you call
in from ministers or teachers,
you never must, you never can,
you never should, delegate this
work. God will hold you
responsible for the religion of
your children.”
John Angell James
…for all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:23
Behold, I was brought forth in
iniquity,
and in sin did my mother
conceive me.
Psalm 51:5
And you were dead in the
trespasses and sins in which you
once walked, following the
course of this world, following
the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that is now at work in
the sons of disobedience —
among whom we all once lived in
the passions of our flesh,
carrying out the desires of the
body and the mind, and were by
nature children of wrath, like the
rest of mankind.
• Do you as members of the
congregation, and family and
friends welcome these children
into the community of faith?
• Will you seek to intentionally
disciple them because of your
own commitment to Jesus by
your own words and deeds?
• Will you support the
educational and youth
ministries of the church so that
together we can disciple the
children in faith?