1 /5 Rosevonne Hayes: Im in shock and completely felt disrespected by the behavior to remove my family and I DURING the preaching of the word of God. We were approached by a lady who stated she is very close to the pastor family due to their children being either married but have a grandchild on the way. Im telling the description because she did not say what her position in the church was. She made it as personable of her standing with the pastor. She approached us as we were listening to the word but "encouraging " us to check out the nursery room. She told us " our nursery is great and parents who find it annoying to haul their children around, this is a perfect place for them to stay at." First off she did not know that we just moved to the state of Florida from Alaska and COMPLETELY new to Lakeland alone. My babies are 2 and 5 months old. I came 20 minutes early to find a secluded area where my babies could roam freely without interrupting anyone worshiping the lord and listening to the word. My daughter had no idea why we had to leave in the middle of the service. This lady had no forethought of oh let me wait until the service is over, track us down as we walk out the door and then show us the nursery room. Her approach to us in the MIDDLE of the service was very rude, but even though she made it passively respectful of stating this is a great spot of our babies and the staff is great. But who as a mother that is completely new to a church leave their babies with people who do not know them personally. I sure did not want to do that in the first place. Minding the fact this lady states the Pastor has ADHD and gets distracted easily. With preaching the word of God, especially scripture of Matthew 18 2-5 about us as adults should always welcome children to listen to the word of the lord and that the kingdom of heaven is seen through the children. That was no displayed by this woman. She kept saying I hope I didnt offend you and your husband but come on you did it the most passive way possible. It was to the point when service was almost done and she asks would we like to drop them off now and return to the service.. I respectfully said no we will be heading out. Keep in mind we were the Only family that walked out while the service was still going on. If we declined, we most likely wouldnt have gone back to listen to the rest of the service because she now was the figure of who can come and go at this point. Again we will not return because of this situation. And to let other new families who have babies and do not want to leave their babies at the nursery that you maybe approached in the MIDDLE of service to have a "tour" of the nursery and that basically your becoming a distraction to the pastor who has ADHD. Which I find that rude to say about the pastor who is somewhat associated by marriage. Ive came from a wonderful church who welcomes children and babies to stay in the sanctuary and never once say to new mothers that they were disruptive.
Overall we should have been approached after service to see the nursery because again this lady did not know why we chose not to go to the nursery in the first place. This review is more of a awareness if you have are new and have babies and want your babies to stay with you in the sanctuary that you maybe approached for a tour in the middle of service. No new family should feel what i felt Yesterday and that was disbelief, shocked, and disrespected. There was no honor of letting babies stay with their parents and the fact the church is called Together is now ironic after you read this review of us about to be separated and was not what i wanted at all for my family. Hence us arriving 20 minutes early to find a area where my 2 year old can freely worship the lord and and experience church. But you will not find it here.
