What belongs to God
Children's Activity
Object:
Parents: Healthy stewardship practices begin at home and
begin at an early age. Teach your children the human and
Christian necessity to give. Giving people learn money management
and rarely have money problems later in life. You give your
children an important gift when you teach them to give.
At the earliest age possible, teach your children to give the top part of their allowance to God, a second part to themselves (in terms of a savings bank or savings account) and the final part to spend. It could be split: ten percent to God (a tithe); ten percent to self (savings); eighty percent to spend.
*Talk to your child about how important it is for you to give to God.
*Talk about how to give to God. Usually this would be through the local church, but there might be other ways to show your awareness of stewardship in gifts elsewhere and gifts of time.
*Talk about the use of money and the value of thinking long- term. "If you spend all your allowance on a toy, then you won't have any money until you get your next allowance."
Teachers: The offering your children give in Sunday school is vitally important. Not that it will ever supply a great financial need of the church, but because of what it does to and for the children in learning stewardship. Good stewardship and sound financial practices begin at an early age. Many congregations will have just completed or begun an annual stewardship campaign. Tie your children into Christian stewardship practices.
*Zero in on the concept that everything is God's! We have nothing except by God's grace! Money is not exempt from God's grace. We show our gratitude to God by our giving.
*Invite good stewards in the congregation to talk to your class about giving.
*Today's first lesson talks about another gift of God's: each other. We take care of each other as part of our stewardship, too!
At the earliest age possible, teach your children to give the top part of their allowance to God, a second part to themselves (in terms of a savings bank or savings account) and the final part to spend. It could be split: ten percent to God (a tithe); ten percent to self (savings); eighty percent to spend.
*Talk to your child about how important it is for you to give to God.
*Talk about how to give to God. Usually this would be through the local church, but there might be other ways to show your awareness of stewardship in gifts elsewhere and gifts of time.
*Talk about the use of money and the value of thinking long- term. "If you spend all your allowance on a toy, then you won't have any money until you get your next allowance."
Teachers: The offering your children give in Sunday school is vitally important. Not that it will ever supply a great financial need of the church, but because of what it does to and for the children in learning stewardship. Good stewardship and sound financial practices begin at an early age. Many congregations will have just completed or begun an annual stewardship campaign. Tie your children into Christian stewardship practices.
*Zero in on the concept that everything is God's! We have nothing except by God's grace! Money is not exempt from God's grace. We show our gratitude to God by our giving.
*Invite good stewards in the congregation to talk to your class about giving.
*Today's first lesson talks about another gift of God's: each other. We take care of each other as part of our stewardship, too!
