Children’s Stewardship Restarts

By TED WRIGHT, Stewardship Chair

In the middle of March, Saint Andrew’s renewed our children’s stewardship project. This project has two parts. The first involves teaching children to recognize God’s gifts and helping them to formulate responses to those gifts. As part of this process, the parents of our children received a letter suggesting how they might help their children along this spiritual path and, as a tangible manifestation, to formulate a pledge to church.

The second part of the children’s stewardship project gives the children a chance to act as stewards of a portion of the church’s blessings: specifically, over $600 received by Saint Andrew’s in fulfillment of last year’s pledges from the children. As part of their activities on Sunday mornings, the children in grades 3 and above have been considering various ways they might use this money for the good of the church and the community. The only restriction on their decisions is that they must use at least half of the money for outreach, to support an effort outside of the church. Because stewardship is about time and talent, as well as treasure, the kids are being urged to consider projects that will involve their active participation along with these funds.

This project is an important part of our children’s Christian education from which we can all learn and benefit. Please support the children, with both your interest and your prayers, as they continue this process.