Reproductive Justice Worship Resources: Time for All Ages

Making Choices, Casting Votes" - Jessica Halperin

• (Gather the children at the front of the room. Read a story about voting or making choices, or ask them following questions:)

  • Every day, many times a day, people have to make choices about what to do. Sometimes we have to think about what the ‘right’ thing to do is, and what the ‘wrong’ thing to do is, like when we help out a friend who needs us, or when we share our toys. When do you remember seeing someone who did something right or something wrong?

  • How did you know that those actions were right or wrong?

  • Is it possible that something right for one person might be wrong for another person?

  • When your parents and other adults vote in elections, to choose members of the government of (city), (state), or the United States, they are often making choices between what they think is right and wrong. Have any of you been to a voting booth with your parents?

  • What happened in the election? The candidate with the most votes won, right? Someone lost and someone won, and it’s because some people with different ideas about right and wrong got to vote. Each person is important, and each person has a right to have their ideas matter. That’s how our government works, and that’s how our church works, too.