Another Side Of Motherhood

There's another side of motherhood that's important for the church to recognize during Mother's Day services. What about the women who have wanted children, but have not been blessed in that way?  How can we make that day painless and a blessing for them too?


Mothers Day Article

Being A Mother Doesn't Always Take The Form Of Having A Family Everyone Can See 


Some women may have lost a child; they may be unmarried and with little prospects of a future marriage. Others may be infertile and may not have had enough money for adoption or fertility treatments. They may have prayed for children for years, but for some reason they have remained childless. 

Then there are the women who didn't feel inclined to become mothers, yet they nurture others and readily respond to those who are without mothers or don't have the benefit of a loving parent of their own.  

Whatever the reasons, there are women in your church you know who deserve a sensitive acknowledgement for their part in making the children around them better because of their love and kindness.

Make this Mother's Day special by remembering those women who may not have children of their own, but are nurturing to those around them with the same motherly care and love they would have given to their own children.


Sensitive Church Communication For Mother's Day


It's a sad truth that many churches don't recognize another side of motherhood during this special day of honoring our mother's.

One church for example, asked women as they entered, "Are you a mother?" If the answer was "no," they were informed the flowers were for mothers ONLY.

In some churches only Moms are clapped for, receive a free brunch, acknowledged as significant or given other public affirmations. It is publically obvious and on display if a woman is not a mother. If a woman has spent many private hours crying over her inability to have children, imagine her feelings at that time.

Again, these reminders are not meant as a suggestion not to honor mothers, but honor can be done sensitively and with the feelings of the childless women in mind. One suggestion you can make to your church leaders would be to focus, perhaps briefly, on the joy of physical children but then to shift into a challenge for spiritual parenting. 

You cannot take away the pain of childlessness, but that pain can be transformed into a vision for ministry if, in addition to special actions done for moms, the pastor actively presents some creative ideas that would be a blessing to all, including the church.

If you are a church leader, I have some suggestions for another side of motherhood church communications by expert Yvon Prehn.  Go there now.   Mother's Day Church Service 


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