Great Giving Challenge Contest Entry: Hannah and Her Mommy.
Hey Families,
Here is another opportunity to help get coats for the Refugee Camp. Hannah and I have entered Dave Ramsey’s Great Giving Challenge for an opportunity to get $5000 to give away. You can view the video by clicking on the link above and you can vote once a day. Please help us change the lives of the kids at the Refugee Camp!
~Nicole Huff
Lately, Hannah and I have been reading the “If you give a mouse a cookie” book series thanks to Chick-fil-A. So in the same way…
If you give a preschooler an opportunity to serve, they may ask you for a little money to buy a coat for a refugee child.
If you give them the money to buy a coat, then they will ask you to drive them to the store.
If you drive them to the store, they will ask you to take them to five stores before they find the perfect coat.
When they find the perfect coat, they will ask you to take them to the refugee camp to give the coat away.
If you take them to the refugee camp, they will connect with another child.
When they connect with another child, they will ask you to take them back again.
As you continue to take them back, they will develop a relationship with that child.
Once they develop a relationship, they will ask you to …
Give them an opportunity to serve together!
And along with that, you are changing your child’s heart! They will see the poor as opportunities to share the love of God with rather than “those people” that they try to stay away from. I wish I had learned this when I was a preschooler!
This is a picture of the coats that Hannah and I got using the money in the preschool offering jar from BLAST. Thank you to everyone who gives offering each week! We bought 15 coats for $55! You can get creative when looking for coats. We found these at the American Thrift Store in Athens. 15 kids will be warm this winter because of our preschoolers! Don’t forget, we will be collecting all the coats on November 7th and 14th at the school.
We still won’t be collecting until the first Sunday in November though, so hold on to your purchases until then.
Hey Preschool Parents,
Just a few quick things. First, below are the Parent Talk and Small Talk pages for this month. Parent Talk is a page for parents of preschoolers under 2 just to read. It normally includes a devotional thought as well as a little discussion about something parents of babies and toddlers deal with on a regular basis. Small Talk is designed for parents of 2 to 5 year olds. It includes four practical ways that you can reinforce the items your kids are learning on Sundays. I would highly recommend using these on a daily basis. 🙂 Also, just a quick reminder for parents of our older preschoolers. Don’t forget to have your child wear the cape we made last week all month long on Sundays. We are focusing on Super Heros and this is a great way to get them involved in what were are learning starting when they are getting ready at home before heading off to the school on Sunday! Also, you may have noticed the post below about our Coats for Kids. Start getting your preschoolers involved now in looking for/buying coats for the kids at the Refugee Camp. We’ll be collecting on November 7th and 14th.
As we head into the month of November, we are going to be talking to your kids about how God takes care of us. God also asks us to take care of others. First we have to see a need and then we have to do something about it. We want your families to begin looking through your kids’ closets for clean, gently-used coats or buy a brand new coat to donate to the kids living in the Refuge Apartments. We’ll be collecting the coats on Sunday mornings for the first two weeks of November.
We played a game. It was really a stretch trying to make it apply to our lesson, so I decided to not even try 🙂
Regardless it was fun!
Crossroads Church Family Ministry 
