Will Our Children Be Stewards?

The occasion was a vestry meeting to write a Stewardship statement. The group was completing a discussion of early memories of money in which the final portion that devoted to early memories of money as an offering had been particularly lively and I couldn’t help commenting. “You seem to have really enjoyed talking about these memories of giving offering offerings as children. Tell me, what do children in this congregation now do about offering?” There was a sudden silence which became filled with embarrassment as it continued. Finally one quiet voice responded with a mixture of realization and regret, “Nothing, I guess. I really had not thought about it until now.

As we talked, members of that vestry realized that in their congregation there was no Sunday School offering being collected. Children left the worship service as soon as the Gospel was read and returned in time following the presentation of the offering, the bread and the wine down the aisle, There as literally no opportunity for them to participate in any offering at all……

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