The Meetings and Spiritual Exercise of the Local Church

Children’s Meetings

6. Children’s Meetings

During a general discussion on meetings, Watchman Nee brings up the particular need of the children’s meeting in the local churches along with some practical advice on the way to work out this need:

The children’s meeting is also needed. This is also a meeting of the local church in the aspect of the work.

We have children’s meetings in various localities. This requires that a few brothers and sisters specifically come forth to do this work. Sisters are perhaps more appropriate. I do not know what materials they are now using in various localities.

In some places they use the Bible to teach the children to read and to memorize. The songs that they sing are composed from Bible verses.

…Perhaps there are brothers and sisters among us who are especially experienced with and burdened for the children. They should come forth and give us some materials that the children in various localities may receive the benefit. Perhaps there are already some brothers who are preparing songs for the children.

(Watchman Nee, Collected Works, Set 3, Vol. 51, 96)

In similar fellowship on the kinds of meetings a local church should have, Watchman Nee also states that the children’s meeting should be included among the local church meetings:

The church should have the following kinds of meetings: gospel meetings, new beginners’ meetings, prayer meetings, the Lord’s table meeting, the meeting referred to in 1 Corinthians 14, sisters’ meetings, and children’s meetings. The local church need not maintain a message meeting on the Lord’s Day.

(Witness Lee, Seer of the Divine Revelation, 220)

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Meetings

Lord’s Table

Prayer

Prophesying

Small Group

Gospel

Children’s

OT Type

Spiritual Exercise

Reading

Praying

Singing

Speaking

Thanksgiving

Praising

Serving

Calling

Pray-Reading

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