When given some direction and the opportunity, kids can do some amazing things that show they are learning Christ’s message for all of us
Inspired by the Oprah Winfrey’s “Big Give” show, a parent at First Presbyterian Church in Huntington, WV donated $1,000 to each LOGOS Bible class with the instructions that the class was to use the money to “…do something good in the name of Christ for someone else.” From kindergarten through high school, the students came up with some creative ideas to use the money and to do something good.
One class used the money to purchase sleeping bags for another church to be used to send their children to summer camp. Another class spent an afternoon with the same children and used the money to pay for pizza and games for a whole lot of fun. Second graders collected and made up fifty “health kits” that the church’s mission team took to a church in Peru. Another class purchased soccer balls to be taken on that same trip to Peru and distributed to local children. Birthday bags for a local hospital were assembled for children in a West Virginia hospital for “instant birthday” celebrations, and books for a hospital bookmobile were another project from two more classes. Yet another class came up with the idea to purchase toys for the play area of a local “people in need” collection center so children could play while their parents shopped.
The 9th grade Confirmation class and the 10-12th grade class combined their seed money to fund a 5k walk-run for the community that raised $8,000 for Hope Unlimited, an organization that aids children on the street in Brazil. They had recently been studying what it means to put faith into action!
All projects were videotaped, and the church is in the process of editing the footage to be presented for their LOGOS Sunday worship in late July. What are some other ideas that you could share that your church has done to help young people learn how to put their faith into action?
