The Woods Chapel, Lee's Summit, MO congregation adopted HealthEd Connect as their Christmas focus charity for the second year in a row. Last year the kids took little shamba hut banks home and scavengered their homes for luxury items. Upon finding a 'luxury' item that they thought children in Zambia would not have, they made a donation into the shamba hut. In addition, they continued to collect money in a jar each Sunday for the rest of the year.
This year when we gathered to kick off another similar project, the kids were excited and had begun to feel they knew the Zambian kids. When I asked the children to guess how much they thought they collected last year, one little boy said rather hopefully, "Twenty dollars??" I assured him that was a lot of money but they had collected even more than that. There was an audible little gasp from the children (and spontaneous applause from the congregation) when we flashed the total of $1683.78 on the screen!! That's enough to pay 2 teacher's salaries for a whole year with money left over to buy school lunches and books. Now that's real Kid Power!
This year when we gathered to kick off another similar project, the kids were excited and had begun to feel they knew the Zambian kids. When I asked the children to guess how much they thought they collected last year, one little boy said rather hopefully, "Twenty dollars??" I assured him that was a lot of money but they had collected even more than that. There was an audible little gasp from the children (and spontaneous applause from the congregation) when we flashed the total of $1683.78 on the screen!! That's enough to pay 2 teacher's salaries for a whole year with money left over to buy school lunches and books. Now that's real Kid Power!
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