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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, and yes I agree to all of that. My kids go to a small Christian school, so they are reading Scripture daily, we pray together, they do a church service in school, take a class on the Bible every year, etc. 
We DO worship God, but we also want a church "family". When we go to our current church with older people, there is no extension after Sunday service. It feels like we are checking a box. We want to find families that can be part of a small group, who we can pray with, etc... families that will push us to grow in our faith. 
You are making it sound like my wants are surface level, but they actually go much deeper than that. Having kids who go to church with other kids and want to spend time growing their faith with them, and want to be at church, that all matters. [/quote]

Maybe ask where some of the Christian kids your kids go to school with go to church?

Also, be prepared for at least one of your children to rebel and become a non-church goer at some point and maybe even a non-believer.   It often happens with kids whose parents push them to be religious.[/quote]

100% agree with the first sentence. My kids have many kids at their youth group who found it through school friends - our youth group welcomes kids who don't regularly attend our church and may not have a youth group at their home church.

As for the last paragraph, it's far less common that PP wants to pretend. I grew up in an environment where parents took their kids to church every time the church doors were open, signed us up for church classes (or created them for us), brought us to church social activities, sent us to private Christian school, etc. More kids of serious religious parents than not stick with the faith. Especially kids who have been well grounded in theology AND see the people around them living the faith out. Basically what OP is trying to do. This is borne out by both data and my own experience. I don't know all that many kids I grew up with who are no longer practicing.[/quote]

In contrast, I know lots of people who went to religious school who are now atheists.[/quote]

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