All in Good Time

Our young acolyte is
off to Cambridge, MA

The small Foster City Episcopal church has a cohort of Sunday School kids who grew up together. The last group will soon depart for college, and, if they follow the familiar path, will explore other faiths and spiritual methods, or perhaps none at all.

We'll see some of them at Christmas or Easter, but very few return permanently to Foster City, much less become adult members of the congregation. They'll probably hear the call to join a worship community somewhere, though, when they start families of their own.

Many, perhaps most parents, wish to introduce traditional values and modes of thinking to their own children, and the church for all its modernism is a good place to start. The shades of gray, the different world views, and the uncertainties will come all in good time.