Recipes for Growing in Faith - The "God" money box
God calls us to be generous and cheerful givers - here's one way to teach kids about giving and to intentionally give as a household / family.Ingredients:
- Materials to make a money box (or more than one!) (e.g. a drinking chocolate container with plastic lid is ideal, or make your own from cardboard or whatever other material you have handy)
- Paper, glue, scissors, textas etc for decorating
- Your family/household
Method:
- Set aside some time to do this family activity
- Decide how you will make your money boxes and gather the necessary materials
- Get together and make them! Make them look great :-)
- Label them as "God's Money" or something similar
- As you finish, read from 2 Corinthians 9:6-9 together (the CEV is a good version for kids) and chat about how God calls us to give. (You could talk a bit more about this topic and look at some other Bible passages together in other family times as well)
- Challenge each other to decide how much you will cheerfully give to God (you could use 10% as a guideline). Kids can put in a percentage of their pocket money, birthday and Christmas money
- Pray for each other, thank God for all he gives us and ask him to help us be generous givers
- Collect the money in the money box, then give it to God through the church offering and other Christian projects you may decide on together
