Comments on: Why Not Have Fun with Your Kids Church Offering?

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:28:46 +0000

While I understand the idea behind this, I must disagree with only allowing those children with $ to come forward and try the wishing well. Encouraging the children to give is one thing, excluding children who may not have $$ to give seems to me to be contrary to Jesus’ teachings. I would think there is another way to encourage them, other than exclusion.

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By: David, justopenthebook.com

David, justopenthebook.com — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:15:47 +0000

This is a great idea! Promoting the fun of giving should go hand in hand with the reasons why we give. Why is it so foreign to most of us to make giving fun? We have our kids participate in the giving we do – such as making PB&J sandwiches and sack lunches for the homeless. They come with us as we had the lunches out. It works great – the homeless people perk up a lot when they see our cute kids, and the kids get a kick out of helping.

By: Wayne Stocks

Wayne Stocks — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:04:52 +0000

Joe,

Yes, I was talking about the smaller ones. When we bought them they were $25 apiece or $20 if you bought more than one. As I recall, there was a break on shipping if you ordered more than one as well. We ordered two.

We are a couple more weeks in since I originally wrote the article, and more and more kids are starting to bring their coins and having fun giving back to the kingdom of God.

Good Luck!

By: Ginger Burleson

Ginger Burleson — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:55:19 +0000

Our churches Little Mission Friends (ages 1-3) class have an on going mission project. We collect money all year to go towards our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.
The way we collect is, each child has a “Mission Piggy”. The plastic piggy banks came from a dollar store. Each child has their name on theirs and I let the children decorate them with different stickers.
They collect change from parents and grandparents and really look forward to filling their piggys.
Right before Christmas we empty the piggy’s and put all the money together and turn it in as a class.
This is a great way to teach the little ones about helping others.

By: Tony Kummer

Tony Kummer — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:58:26 +0000

I think Wayne was writing about their mimi or toy versions which are something like $25 each.

By: Joe McGinnis

Joe McGinnis — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:03:20 +0000

Great idea, I’ve been looking for these for years…Only problem is, I’ve not been able to find one for less than a couple thousand dollars! Their that much on this site BUT I’ll look into their grants available. Great Find!

By: Kristin

Kristin — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:51:46 +0000

This is a GREAT idea! I LOVE it! Thank you for sharing! So much fun! We’ll have to see how we can incorporate it.

By: Tony Kummer

Tony Kummer — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:45:12 +0000

Great find Wayne! I think I’ll grab one for our VBS offering. Every year we do girls vs boys competition with a VBS mission offering. This might be a great angle to freshen up the event.

Either that or I can talk my pastor into using this during the offering in big church. We make sure kids + parents are together for offering time in our order of service.