We need the widows and widowers, the raggedly dressed guy who wanders in the back door, the struggling families, the families with one kid who can't comprehend "how you do it", the bigger families, the "normal" families, the broken families, the people fighting diseases... How on earth do we teach them about Heaven's grace and God's sovereignty when they are taken away from this to learn children's songs and glue cartoon pictures on construction paper (which they can do at home after church, btw)? They learn empathy here, they learn manners here, they get hands-on servitude here, they learn what Christ's body is here, for better or for worse!