In God we trust
Children's Activity
Object:
Teachers or Parents: Talk about the many ways money is
important. Parents, show your children your checkbook and show
them how much it costs to provide a home, food, clothing, school,
and so forth. Teachers, you can do similarly. Get a copy of your
church's budget and show the children how much it costs to run
the church each year.
Children have little conception of how money is used at home or at church. Share with them the needs (at home and at church) and how easily the needs become so important that we are tempted to worship money. We can see money and can see where money does good. We cannot see God and God's activities so easily. "See why it is so easy to trust in money?"
Point out to them how silly it would be to pray to money. They will get the point that many adults fail to grasp: money is a tool, a means -- not an end. Money is servant, not god. Giving the offering is like a prayer.
If the children had an opportunity to take today's offering to the altar, talk about that experience. This might be one way to connect the offering with the many functions of the church that we so easily take for granted.
Children have little conception of how money is used at home or at church. Share with them the needs (at home and at church) and how easily the needs become so important that we are tempted to worship money. We can see money and can see where money does good. We cannot see God and God's activities so easily. "See why it is so easy to trust in money?"
Point out to them how silly it would be to pray to money. They will get the point that many adults fail to grasp: money is a tool, a means -- not an end. Money is servant, not god. Giving the offering is like a prayer.
If the children had an opportunity to take today's offering to the altar, talk about that experience. This might be one way to connect the offering with the many functions of the church that we so easily take for granted.
