*Proverbs 19:17 He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward him for what he has done*
Caring for the poor, God's people, is of importance to God thus important to us, as a family. Teaching our children how we can provide for God's people is truly one of the most effective ways to show how God's love for us can resonant to others. As Christ Followers, we do what Jesus does and we obey what Jesus says. Christ sees the need. We are to be the eyes of Christ in this broken world and we are to respond, to meet the needs of others, for this is true obedience to Christ.
With the crisis in Haiti currently, this provides an opportunity to teach our children how we, as Christ Followers, can help. What an important lesson to teach our children. Last night, Studly and I, took that opportunity to talk about the situation, to show them what is happening so close to home, and to talk about our God and His love.
Just to profess this, in our home, we normally eat with paper plates or if we really get into it, we serve the children dinner with plastic. I know, classy!
We wanted to make a statement. Show how blessed we are as a family, from God. Last night I broke out the china. The children have maybe seen it once before. But never ate on it.
This is what they saw when they came to eat dinner.
First we watched, an child appropriate, video about Haiti. Explaining to the children what is going on currently. The destruction, the homeless, the orphans, the lack of food, water, and shelter.
Then we sat down for dinner. We prayed. We read from the book of Mark about the Lord's last supper and taught the children about communion. The children each broke a piece of the bread to eat and had grape juice to represent God's blood shed for us.
Furthermore, we explained to them that we were going to eat rice and beans for dinner to represent what many orphans eat to survive. A dollar was placed at each child's plate to let them give to Haiti to help God's people.
It was an amazing time, as a family, to spend with the Lord and to teach our children a valuable lesson of life.
Caring for the poor, God's people, is of importance to God thus important to us, as a family. Teaching our children how we can provide for God's people is truly one of the most effective ways to show how God's love for us can resonant to others. As Christ Followers, we do what Jesus does and we obey what Jesus says. Christ sees the need. We are to be the eyes of Christ in this broken world and we are to respond, to meet the needs of others, for this is true obedience to Christ.
With the crisis in Haiti currently, this provides an opportunity to teach our children how we, as Christ Followers, can help. What an important lesson to teach our children. Last night, Studly and I, took that opportunity to talk about the situation, to show them what is happening so close to home, and to talk about our God and His love.
Just to profess this, in our home, we normally eat with paper plates or if we really get into it, we serve the children dinner with plastic. I know, classy!
We wanted to make a statement. Show how blessed we are as a family, from God. Last night I broke out the china. The children have maybe seen it once before. But never ate on it.
This is what they saw when they came to eat dinner.
First we watched, an child appropriate, video about Haiti. Explaining to the children what is going on currently. The destruction, the homeless, the orphans, the lack of food, water, and shelter.
Then we sat down for dinner. We prayed. We read from the book of Mark about the Lord's last supper and taught the children about communion. The children each broke a piece of the bread to eat and had grape juice to represent God's blood shed for us.
Furthermore, we explained to them that we were going to eat rice and beans for dinner to represent what many orphans eat to survive. A dollar was placed at each child's plate to let them give to Haiti to help God's people.
It was an amazing time, as a family, to spend with the Lord and to teach our children a valuable lesson of life.
2 comments:
A beautiful lesson.
What a wonderful way to share with your kids about the Lord, His protection, and His blessing. Thanks for sharing.
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