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A Child Shall Lead: The Role of Children in the Faith Community of Idlewild Presbyterian Church

This project will comprise a year‐long study of the role of children in Idlewild

Presbyterian Church, culminating in a weekend conference to be scheduled for the

Spring of 2012. Children presently constitute the core of Idlewild; they participate

in worship, an extensive choral program, as well as outreach missions programs.

Our considering the role of children in a faith community will compel us to develop a

community that in good measure fulfills the ideal articulated in Isaiah, that is, to

grant children their rightful place. This is about how attention to children will

CHANGE the church!

Leadership for the conference would fall on our Project Team, the worship

committee, and a special Ad Hoc committee formed especially for the project. In

addition to the immeasurable benefits we hope to receive from participation in the

ISM Congregations Project, we are also seeking to glean much wisdom from such

leaders as John Witvliet, Michael Hawn and John Thornburg. The intended audience

for the conference would include all those from our region who have an interest in

childhood development as it relates to the church.

The conference will include a community concert, which would involve the choirs

from Idlewild as well as those of St. John’s Episcopal, Boulevard Christian Church,

Village Prebyterian (Prairie Village, KS), and members of the Memphis Symphony

Orchestra.

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