Some of Cornerstone’s single ladies enjoy hosting occasional slumber parties for the young girls of Cornerstone.  On this particular occasion most of the young girls were out of town for summer vacations, but those who were in town had a wonderful time, I’m told.  They made jewelry, crafts, ordered pizza, watched a movie, and the next morning they got up out of their sleeping bags and went to church together. 

This is the kind of thing that lays a foundation of beautiful relationships in the body of Christ, preparing the way for the kind of covenant–family dynamics that Paul mentions in Titus 2, where the older women are to train the younger women in godliness. 

That kind of discipling relationship requires love.  And love requires time and effort and attention.  For 6–8 year old girls, this means things like slumber parties.