Sunday, October 16, 2005--Katrina School Kits

So I have another challenge for you, but before I give it to you, we need to have a little celebration. For your last challenge, the “French” quarter drive, you did really well. We collected over a thousand quarters, and those quarters, plus some dollars gave us a grand total of $378 to give towards hurricane relief. Great job, everyone!!

So you already know about your next challenge if you read your October Children’s Ministry newsletter. What kind of kits are we putting together for the kids who were affected by hurricane Katrina? Call it out if you know it—yes, school kits. Now when we did health kits for the Tsunami last year, we asked you all to bring in completed kits, but this year, we want to make the kits together, so we assigned each class an item to bring in, then in two weeks, we will gather together in the celebration center after church to make a big assembly line and pack up the kits.

Raise your hand if you are in the nursery. We’d like you all to bring in erasers
Pre-school classes or 4th grade—scissors
Kindergarten—Pencil sharpeners
1st grade—pencils
2nd grade—construction paper
3rd grade—150-200 sheet pads of notebook paper
5th grade—box of 24 crayons
6th grade—making bags
And if there are any people who like to sew, stop by the 6th grade classroom or find me in coffee hour and we will get you the specs to make the bags to hold all the supplies for the school kits. Members of the congregation are more than welcome to join the children in this project, too!

There is a well loved hymn that has these words as the refrain, “they will know we are Christians by our love.” Will you all help to show that love with our heath kits?

Let’s Pray:
Loving God
Help us to be
your loving hands and hearts in the world.
Be with those people
Who we are hoping to help.
Amen.