Am I a Christian?

"Mom, am I a Christian?" my young daughter asked me in the car on the way to her elementary school one morning.

"Well, honey," I thoughtfully chose my words. "Do you believed that Jesus Christ is the son of God."

"Of, course," she replied.

I then asked her, "Do you believe that God sent his only son, Jesus came down from heaven?

"Of, course," she replied.

"Do you believe that Jesus is her lord and savior?," I continued.

"Of, course," she replied.

"Then why the question?" I asked.  "You are a Christian, you believe in Jesus."

My daughter took a deep breath and started her story. "At lunch every day, I say a prayer before I eat my food.  You know like I do at dinner but nobody says it with me.  Like we do at dinner when we are at grandmas house."

I didn't know she did that.  Wow, what a neat thing for a kid to do on her own.  I know we don't pray at home but we do when we go to my mothers house.  My daughter likes that and started saying the same prayer at our dinner time at home, but nobody else says it with her, its her own little thing.

"Well," she continued. "Some of the kids in my class say that I am not a Christian because I don't go to church.  That saying prayers and believing in God and Jesus don't make me a Christian.  If I want to be a REAL Christian, that I have to go to church, like they do."

WTH,... how do I address this,... OMG,... I just found out my kid prays in public at school everyday and now I find out that people are picking on her because she doesn't go to church.  Its not her fault that she doesn't go to church, that's my issue.  What do I say? How do I handle this?

Then, before I can organize these jumbled thoughts, she asks, "Can you take me to church?"

Its now time for this lapse catholic to find a church that embraces my beliefs and has an awesome children's program because my daughter is a Christian,...