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I remember when I was growing up, Mothers Day was one of our best attended Sunday mornings. Guilty kids would come to church as a special favor to mama and the the big event.A flower for the oldest motherA flower for the youngest motherA flower for the mother with the most kids presentAh memoriesWhat does your church do for Mothers Day

Our church has gifts for all the mothers and takes some time out to honor them.But, first, they acknowledge the women in the congregation that have suffered lost pregnancies or have not been able to have children. The first time we experienced this, I was floored... it was such an amazing, thoughtful, compassionate expression of gospel love.My wife and I have friends who stay home from church on Mother's Day because they are not able to have children and the celebration is just difficult for them to endure. There are folks in similar shoes in our current church as well, but it seems acknowledging them and their suffering and God's glory in their endurance amidst our celebration of God's gifts of children makes all the difference.

I think we should treat the mother's like we do the Dad's on Father's Day.

The church I attend(cog)doesn’t celebrate Mother’s Day “Hell will be filled with people that didn’t cuss, didn’t drink, and may even have been baptized. Why? Because none of those things makes someone a Christian.”

First, the women whose mother had died wore one color while those whose had not wore another, promoting depression.Secondly, it was the one Sunday of the year the congregation would sing If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again. This would get those whose mother had died weepy, and those whose mother had not died would get weepy thinking about it

I don't dread it, for as you said, it is often one of the high-attendance days of the church calendar. But I seem to always struggle about how to handle preaching on that day. Like you mentioned, some are sad at the loss of a mother, others are sad they can't conceive, and still others had an awful mother that didn't demonstrate the love of God. So I usually just preach against Halloween, Santa Clause, and the Easter Bunny on that day.

I have women with kids by multiple fathers. It just somehow doesn't seem right if they show up that one time or so a year (their kids comes regularly) and pick up a bouquet of flowers for having the most children.

Then and now...

I grew up in the tradition of wearing a flower on Mother's Day- red signaled that your mother was still living, and white that she had deceased. Gifts were given to the youngest mother, oldest mother, and mother with the most children present that day. In thinking about those three... two of them (youngest and most children) could get awkward in today's world.This Sunday we will do things to celebrate mothers, but also things to celebrate all women. We will point out that there are mothers by birth, mothers by choice, and spiritual mothers in the family of faith. We will have door prizes where every woman 18+ has a chance to get their number drawn and receive one of the gift cards. We try to strike a balance of being sensitive to those for whom the day is difficult, while acknowledging the importance of family and faith.

I like it. Many people do not realize it but as mentioned in previous comments some people will not attend on Mothers day. My sister who never had children would not attend.I did smile at DaSheik's comment. To be honest I never considered the many different feelings on mother's day until the last few years. Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/