Reflection for Family Ministry e-news

For the past few weeks, we have been talking a lot about the importance of pledging and stewardship around All Saints'. What we hear about it in church is mostly about financial giving, which is hard for children to understand when they aren't financially responsible for most of the things in their lives. With that being said, Reverend Licia and I have been trying to support you in talking with your children about stewardship through our reflections in this e-news. A few weeks ago, Father Reed reminded the children in children's chapel about tithing their Halloween candy, and I am here to ask you to do the same.

 

I know that candy is not the same as money, but candy is something that most children love so giving some of it to the church will help them better relate to the pledge conversations they are hearing in church. I know that many of you have already brought in your candy pledge, but just in case you haven't please consider bringing it this week. We are asking that each child participate in our pledge season by donating 10 pieces of candy from Halloween. If you have an older child or teen who know about percentages, ask them to consider tithing their candy. This would mean that if they collected 120 pieces of candy, they would give 10% which is 12 pieces to the church.

This is the last Sunday that there will be baskets in the narthex for collecting the candy. All candy will be donated to children who could not go trick-or-treating!

Peace,

Lauren+