CHEERFUL GIVERS

Our Sunday School class, Sacred Marriage, is full of married couples with young children. Some of the children are reaching, or have reached, the age in understanding servanthood/volunteering. In order to give the kids an opportunity to serve in a way they would understand and be capable of we stuffed stockings...a easy concept as well as easy for them to do.
The parents purchased items to go in the stockings (Blake Coleman used her own money to purchase what they brought). We gathered in our class room at the church and setup a table with all the items. The kids "shopped" around the table to fill the stockings. Once filled, the kids carried the stockings to "Hopes Chest", a box by the tree we picked the stockings up from.
Our hope for Joshua is that this is the start of what God intends us to do for others. We lead the boys by our example and Joshua, being the oldest, will lead his younger sibling(s) by example.

2 Corinthians 9:6-7 "But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."


Blake Coleman putting travel shampoo and soaps in her stocking.

Joshua putting chocolate candy in his stocking.

All the children participants, Joshua, Elizabeth Williams, Barrett Starr, and Blake Coleman.

Two of the three younger children there...Andrew and Emma Coleman were fighting over who would eat the last cheddar whale.
Kyle Starr was there as well, but he was busy turning in circles.