Young Women Service Project

Tonight the Young Women are offering free baby sitting at the church. The idea is that the parents can use the time to go Christmas shopping. Our meeting house sits two blocks from a very large shopping district. It includes a large mall, a Target, a Walmart, and miles of strip malls. So the two hours they are offering would not be taken up driving.

I recall an advirtisement last year for a church that did the same thing, except they offered it Sunday Morning. Parents could drop off their kids and go shopping while the kids went to church. It gave me all sorts of mixed up feelings. Is it good or bad?

I have fewer mixed feeling for this activity, mostly because it isn't on Sunday, but have we just bought in to the commercialism we should be staying above. Do we really need help from our church to be more material? When was the last time group baby sittng was arranged for a ward temple trip? Or a service project?