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| Christmas project kick-off |
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| Have Shamba Bank, Will Travel! |
Milk-carton Shamba Huts formed a village around a shoe-box school building for the Woods Chapel Christmas event kick-off November 4. Lots of excitement among both children and adults! Each child received a Shamba Hut bank which they took home along with a scavenger hunt sheet. During the season of Thanksgiving, the children will count selected luxuries in their home and drop a coin in their Shamba Hut for each item found. Some are counting pairs of shoes in their closet, others are counting appliances plugged into the wall, while others are looking for light bulbs --- all items
not found in the homes of the children in Zambia.
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adults in the congregation are selecting a card for school lunches, school supplies, or teacher salaries and dropping their cards along with their donations into the shoe-box school building. Both children and adults are writing messages on African card/envelopes to be delivered to the children in January when a team goes to Zambia. This will very likely be the first and only piece of mail the kids in our schools have ever received.
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| Milk-carton Shamba Huts |
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| Sarah's Scavenger Hunt |
The Shamba Huts will be brought back to church after Christmas to reassemble the village and see how much was collected for the kids in Zambia. Go team!
The project was developed by 3 of our
Connector Specialists, Callie Streich, Lisa Ash, and Matt Jones. If any of you Blog followers are interested in obtaining directions for making your own Shamba Huts or obtaining any of the other items used in this project, just email Lisa at lash
@healthedconnect.org. We're having so much fun with this project we'd love to share this clever idea with you!!
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