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Take some time to think of the positive things your church is already doing in your community and write them down. A church is family-friendly when it is aware of a wide range of people’s needs and explores ways to meet those needs.
- We meet people’s spiritual needs by:
- We meet people’s emotional needs by:
- We meet people’s physical needs by:
- We meet people’s social needs by:
- The positive elements in our children’s programme are:
- We host the following programmes to support relationships between people:
- We have the following named person, or team of people, for anyone to call on in an emergency.
- Our positive attitudes towards the diversity of people, including those of minority groups in our community, are evident by our...:
- The ways we actively try to involve different people of all ages in the church service are by:
- The ways we share out church responsibilities, so that no one family or person is over-burdened with church-related tasks, are by:
- The ways that we show our care for our church leaders, and their families, are by:
- The improvements we have made towards creating a building that is safe and accessible to everyone are:
- We have a current child protection policy, and we have clear guidelines to protect all children on any church activity.
- We provide a children’s liturgy as an alternative for children who have not yet made their First Holy Communion:
- Every week
- Once a month
- Occasionally
- Never
- We have the following strategies for involving whole families spiritually at critical points such as baptism, the sacrament of reconciliation, first Holy Communion and confirmation:
- The ways we show that we affirm the needs of men and fathers are by:
- The ways we show that we affirm the needs of women and mothers are by:
- The ways we are reaching out into the community and helping to meet local needs are by:
- If our church could change or improve three things I would like them to be:
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