If you attend religious services...

MamaJAM wrote: Just wondering what services are like for others...

If you attend religious services ('regular' services...not holidays)....how long is the service?
Does your child(ren) attend with you, or are they somewhere else (babysitting, home, religious classes, etc)?

kimberley replied: i am up and down with going.. but try to go regularly. i took the boys a lot when they were small. my church has a children's mass at 10am so they go downstairs during the readings for their own bible class. less boring for them. but come up before communion. the whole mass is just under an hour unless the priest gets long winded in his homily

kayla's mama replied: My dads church is about a 2-2 1/2 hr thing with no childrens church. On his holy days he has 2 church services about 2 hrs. apart from each other. The children have to sit with you in the back 3 rows of the congregation.

My church is about an 1-1 1/2 hrs. with a childrens church.

ashtonsmama replied: Yep-we go every week to church at 10:30, and usually Ashton can sleep through the whole thing, so we've mostly kept him with us in church and just sat in the back, but once or twice we've put him in the nursery, which went fine once, but the second time he flipped...so we're going to try again when he gets a little older I think...

MamaJAM replied: Saturday morning services begin at 9am....and (depending on the week) last until 11:30-12:30. Most weeks there is a Bar or Bat Mitzvah -- and it really depends on how fast or slow the kid is with their Hebrew (they lead most of the prayers). On weeks when the Cantor leads - we're done close to 11:30...though our Rabbi (and some of the kids) get long-winded with their 'sermons'.
We go almost weekly - unless someone is sick - and we go as a family. But - at the service - DD#1 usually sits with her friends away from us...and DS#2 goes to the babysitting room. DS#1 stays with us the entire time. DD#2 and DD#3 sit with us - unless it's a "Tot Shabbat" week and they have services geared for their age-groups to go to. After the service, we usually stay for the lunch....the girls often run off and sit with their friends.


Friday night services are very short -- only about 45 mins -- but they usually don't start until 7:30pm and that's too late for the boys. DH often takes some or all of the girls on a Fri night and I stay home with the boys. The usually stay for the snack after the service and don't get home until nearly 9pm.

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: Church lasts approximately 1 hour. On non holidays. Logan will be in the nursery until he is 4, then he'll sit with us for about half the service, have a "children's moment" with the pastor then go to children's church for the rest of the service. Children's church is for kids 4-10, then they are thought to be old enough to sit quietly and respectfully through a service. I hope to do a good enough job with Logan that he can do so by 8.

3_call_me_mama replied: We go most sundays. Worship begins at 10:00 with singing and praise until 10:30 then greeting adn announcements and kids get dismissed at 10:45 for kids church. Sermon lasts form 10:45 until 11:30-12:00 depending on what lse is goin gon. On communion sundays it is a little longer or if there are Baptisms or Dedications. Nursery is available form 10:00 on for kids ages birth- 3 years. 3-12 year olds have kids church after the singing. We all sit together. (Sometimes kathleen goes to Nursey in teh beginning and sometimes after the singing)

ilovemybaby replied: I hardly ever attend Church anymore... just because we don't have a Creche and I miss the service anyway because Abby won't sit still or stay quiet. She is too young still. So I don't see the point in going.
The service is about 1 hour I think.

luvmykids replied: Ours are about 2 hours, there is nursery for the infants and childrens church for kids through 12, and a teen church also. But it's not just babysitting type stuff, it really is age appropriate kids church, they do praise and worship and learn a Bible verse, etc.

ediep replied: we go every sunday at 11am. Jason always comes with us. The mass is about 1 hour. I usually bring a small snack for him and some quiet toys or books.

JAYMESMOM replied:
Mine is pretty much the same. 1 1/2 = 2 hours with everything she described. Diferent churches we have went to also have sunday and wednesday night services which are appox. 1 hour with the same sitting services etc.

Jayme hates the nursery though and spends much of the service with us. She behaves somewheat. Luckily the church we are going to right now dont mind kids in the sanctuary and think she is funny during praise and worship as she taps the beat on her hip like I do and she has to hold the hymnal.

C&K*s Mommie replied: The service is mostly an hour and a half, maybe 1hr 45min depending. The girls attend with us in the service itself, unless I am with the younger 2year olds on my selected Sunday. Then they are with me. They have areas for the girls to go to play, while we are at service. But C wants to always sit with us, and K would not stay without her sister, since they are seldom apart.

redchief replied: Mass is about 40 minutes long. Usually we go to the 5PM Mass on Sat. evening because Kaitlin is an alter server (used to be called "alter boys" but obviously that term needed to be changed when they began allowing female alter servers) at that Mass. When Kaitlin is off we usually go to 9AM Mass on Sun. morning and CCD (the religeous education program) follows that Mass. CCD is a little more than an hour.

NEWMOM05 replied: Our Church meetings last exactly 3 hours. Sacrament is first, then Sunday School and then Young Women's because I teach the 16 and 17 year olds. Kathryn is with me the whole time and the girls just love to hold her while I teach. Our meetings are from 9am-12pm.

mom21kid2dogs replied: We're Catholic. We attend Mass as a family (there is no other option, anyway ). Mass is generally about an hour.

luvbug00 replied: as a child roman catholic mass is 40 min , they have a nurcery but encurage family. I was an E&C catholic until i was 16. Haven't been back since. Mya has been to mass with my dad a coupple times but she isn't baptized so no major religous conviction there..

aspenblue1 replied: Our service is about 1 hours they have a daycare at our church that the girls are sometime in and sometime in the church with us.

ZandersMama replied: Our service is about an hour, a little more maybe. i teach sunday school so my little one is downstairs with me in sunday school for half the service. the church is family friendly, usually a baby taking their first steps in the middle of the asile, that kind of thing. very nice, we go every week.

Brias3 replied: We're Roman Catholic, our services are usually about an hour long. On holidays, typically longer (and more crowded). The kids are with us at church. Ryan and Aliyah both attend religious education (they go to private school but not a Catholic school) an hour before Mass and it lets out about 5-10 minutes prior to the service we attend.