Children at St. Clement’s

Children of all ages are very welcome at St. Clement’s. We have two staff members available to provide childcare on Sunday mornings. Lindsay and Seth are available in our downstairs nursery starting around 10:15. We encourage participation in any way that works for you. Our worship is an expression of Anglo Catholicism and has an inherent reverence and mystery. It’s also grounded in the physical reality of God becoming human, so we try to embrace real life. We’re pretty relaxed as a congregation, and we hope you and your children will join us and be able to relax with the Liturgy yourselves.

Whether your children join you after the service, before communion, or stay with you the whole time, there are many ways of participating. Some children may want to sit in a pew and sing the hymns, listening, standing, and kneeling with the rest of the congregation. Some may prefer to do their own thing, maybe reading a book or drawing. Others may prefer to hang out on the rug in the row closest to the church entrance, where we have some paper and coloring supplies, and where they can easily pop their heads up to see what’s going on. Older kids who are interested are invited to learn how to serve as acolytes.

In addition to our nursery room downstairs, there are also a number of books outside the nursery that can be brought into the church or read downstairs.