Family Fun Fridays

For the last couple years now we've wanted to host one of our church's small groups in our home. We were struggling with how to make the floor plan of our house work for having kids in one place while their parents were in another part of the house for study and fellowship. Then, I had the realization that maybe our group wasn't supposed to be about splitting up kids and parents so that the parents could be ministered to while the kids were "babysat." I really felt like maybe our group was supposed to be a time and place for families to come together. It took the floor plan obstacle to lead me to recognize that we could help meet the need of focusing on families as a priority. In our culture these days, we cram as much as we can into our lives- soccer practice, piano lessons, meetings, cub scouts, ballet class, bunco night, etc, etc, etc...we do alot of these in effort to give our kids the best in life, but sometimes, more than more activities and commitments, what our kids really need is us, our time, conversation, memories, relationship. So, we decided to start Family Fun Fridays. One Friday a month we're opening our home and sharing time with other families doing crafts, playing games, sharing snacks and fellowshipping. We're taking time out of all the other crazy busyness of life to put our families first and spend time with our kids having good ol fashion family fun. We had 5 families at our first group in September and everyone had so much fun. It felt great to be surrounded by folks who share the priority of investing in their families, and spending quality time together. We feel so blessed to have our spacious, beautiful home and are so excited to be obedient to the call to use it to bless others. We love opening our home to other families and are really encouraged by the turn out and enthusiasm for our group.