Oh look, a local battle to fight
All Age Church is attempting to reach the Balham area for Christ and an essential part of our appeal is Christ Church Kids. Many of those we aim to reach won’t know that yet but our task is get them in and give them a taste so that they’ll never want to leave. We know it works because it’s happened once. You’ll know that I’m attempting to cultivate a relationship with Telferscot School so that in partnership with them I am welcome in that school, am invited to run regular assemblies and help out with the teaching of RE. In principal the Head Teacher has given me the go ahead to run a Kids’ Club in the Summer Half Term. My hope is that not only will CC Kids attend but that having built up a favourable reputation and a good rapport kids from the school will want to come. At the end of the holiday club we’ll have a Sunday Meeting at which the kids will perform and make presentations. Although the Holiday Club is some time away we start building our reputation from here. Our kids are the best advert followed secondly by their parents.
Doesn’t that sounds sinister to you? The school they are talking about is a primary school. “Our task is get them in and give them a taste so that they’ll never want to leave”. Get them early before they can think about what a load of bollocks we’re telling them. Teaching children to follow a religion before they are old enough to consider it critically amounts to child abuse. It should be made illegal.
Looks like this initiative comes from Christ Church Balham.
Minor Update: Christ Church Balham are part of a movement called the Co-Mission Initiative. I’m trying to find out what their views are on the teaching of creationism of schools before contacting the school.
Update: Richard Perkins (the owner of the blog I’m talking about) has written about my reaction to his post. He didn’t actually link to my post though. So none of his readers can see my post (although he does quote extensively from it). It also means that Technorati didn’t pick up the reference.
I’ll be writing a more detailed reponse later.