When my bride expresses an interest something spiritually-focused - even borderline charismatic - and of good orthodoxy, I have learned to say yes every time. There's a family praise and worship group that meets a couple of times a month, to which we have taken the younger grandchildren before. The group doesn't have as many expressions of the charisms as I'm accustomed to, which may be part of why my wife is more comfortable there. Periodically, one of the families hosts a dinner coupled with a prayer meeting in their home. When we got the invitation this time, we knew it was going to be on our grandchildren's first night with us during their parents' cruise/vacation, but figured we would try to make it work.
Turns out that we had multiple logistics issues and were a half hour late, but we communicated clearly with the hosts clearly along the way and they were most gracious with us. There was one other family there, a mom with 2½ kids with her (well, the last one appears to be over ¾ baked, actually), and two of the host family's kids were gone for the evening. But their thirteen year old twin girls - one on piano and one on guitar - did a great job of leading worship, and we ended up with the middle four of our grandchildren there.
It was just what I needed. The small group let me spend some time talking one-on-one with the host, we got to spend some great, spiritually-focused time with (and pray over) our grandchildren, they got to spend time with some other Christ-centered families, and praising God still always feels like where I belong.
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