I don’t know how old your children are but i am sure that if you have children you know what a baby changing station is. I did not know or care to know what one of these was until my wife and i had our first child… who is now a 6 and half month old little girl named Ava (and she is stinkin cute!).

Well, it was family date night so we took a little trip to the mall. Ava (warning: this next part is a little graphic) had one of those diaper blow outs where the stench from holding her seeped in to my wifes jacket. Because of this, i offered to change her. So, i make my way to the bathrooms and come to find out there is not a baby changing station anywhere in sight…nowhere! i end up creating a make-shift baby changing area on the counter with paper towels which did not make the other bathroom patrons too excited about washing their hands.

Afterwards, i told my wife i was going to write a letter to this mall explaining how inconvenient their bathroom set up is for families with small children…which i never ended up doing.

So, why am i sharing this with you? Well, first, i just had to get this off my chest and second, i want all the parents out there to know that we as a church do NOT want to be like that mall. Not only do we want to provide baby changing stations but we want to come along side of you as parents to help you raise your children in Godly homes. We don’t want to make life more difficult for you but to encourage you and challenge you to be the best parents you can be.  As a Central Family Ministries staff, we want to be there for you. And if we are missing big things like baby changing stations, please let us know. Just comment to this post and i’ll see what we can do.

Derek Bareman

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