What’s your top scheduling priority for this week? Put another way, what are your nonnegotiable engagements? When you are tired and overwhelmed which things are you most willing to drop? While faithful church attendance can be a challenge, we ought to be encouraged to persevere even when the going gets tough. And as Christian moms, who desire to enjoy our kids more, we need to see church as a nonnegotiable for our joy and our growth. In the long view, the best way for us to enjoy motherhood is to walk in the fear of the Lord. And a primary regular way in which we are to be built up is through the body of believers. As Eugene Peterson has argued, corporate worship “gives us our frame for life – it grounds us, centers us, and unifies us.” Or put in Kira words, church participation provides us a structure of growth for our vertical relationship with God and the frame or structure of our growth in horizontal relationship with one another.Listen in as we chat through some basic benefits of church attendance, the Biblical directives to gather, and a peek into what Nelson Sunday mornings look like.