Tonight we rallied our troops for our first week of our Heifer Project. We have challenged the kids to raise money to buy chickens and rabbits and other animals for families in need around the world.
A Basket of Promise and Love...Our money can help to provide struggling families the promise of a secure future. Rabbits are easy to care for and reproduce quickly, allowing their owners to sell the offspring for extra income once they've fulfilled Heifer's "Passing on the Gift" promise; and chickens lay eggs and provide manure for vegetable gardens. That's why this gift of Hope goes on and on, lasting much longer and helping more families than the usual gift basket filled with pastries or presents ever could.
Our challenge to the kids is to find ways that they can sacrifice, earn or raise money. Not by simply asking mom and dad, but by using their own lives, their own ideas and their own giving.
When we have so much abundance it is hard for us to imagine what other kids our own age go through everyday just to survive. Let us share what God has given us. How will you raise money to share?
The Jr High Class were treated "to all the tacos they could eat" this Wednesday!
