Students help pay heating bills
Some local elementary students spent Saturday helping people stay warm.Four classrooms from Sibley Elementary School in Grand Rapids wrote letters to local businesses asking them to sponsor the "Walk for Warmth" program.
The walk will help raise money for seniors and low income families who can't afford to pay their heating bills.
Students walked through the neighborhoods gathering pledges.
"So I can help people pay for their bills because not many can," said Trent Allen, "and I want to help everybody be able to pay for their bills and stay warm."
"Read for Rent" parents from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Academy joined in on Saturday's walk, as well as members of the Rental Property Owner's Association.
Generous
It was January of 2005, just weeks after the deadliest tsunami in recorded history devastated the South Asian Pacific.
As volunteer leaders of Sunday children’s activities, we knew that we would have 400 children who needed help understanding how to respond to the tsunami’s devastation. So we thought, Let’s teach the kids about being generous to those less fortunate than themselves.
In order to teach this generosity lesson, we made a plan to spend 100 days praying for and giving to tsunami victims.
That Sunday in the front of each room, we set up a donation box for blankets and a plastic tub for loose change. In the kindergarten and first grade room, a leader explained that next week the children could begin bringing donations.
Interrupting, a kindergarten-aged boy stood up from his seat, walked in front of all his peers and emptied his pockets into the tub. Without a word, he went back to his seat.
We were all astonished. This kindergartener’s response was so immediate. Why wait until next week to offer his loose change? He was wired with generosity–God-given generosity.
We discovered that there’s something instinctively generous in children. As leaders, we began wondering if there was something we needed to learn from them …
hmm...
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