Children’s Sabbaths Kid Quotes

Centering Children’s Voices

Children often are told to express themselves with an inside voice when adults want to quiet down their outbursts and enthusiasm. We do not want to stifle the imaginative spirit of their outside voices. We want children to experience the freedom of being heard. Whether it is the repetition of words and chants that become future freedom songs or reciting poetry that becomes psalms that become songs, on Children’s Sabbaths especially, they deserve to lift and amplify their outside voices. Let them take center stage and lead. Let them remind us how it used to be when we were children. We invite you to listen and hear, really hear, the voices of children as you ground yourself in this important opportunity for ministry. Hear now the voices of some of God’s precious gifts.

We welcome the voices of children, and we welcome the voices of our inner child, asking the children and ourselves: