KIDS’ PAGE

By Colleen McDonald                                                                                   

About the Church Canvass Event      April 2, 2003

If you have been in church lately, you have heard several long announcements about our church canvass and celebration dinner.  What is a canvass? 

Canvass is the time of year when we ask our adult members what this church means to them. 

Why are you and your family a part of this church?  To make friends?  To learn and grow, so that each of you can be the best person you can be?  To be part of a community of all ages– one that cares about you and wants to hear your joys and sorrows? 

Maybe church helps you remember to give thanks for all the good things in your life; maybe church reminds you that we are all part of the human family, and that each of us can make our world a better place.

Our canvass is a time for remembering the many reasons our church is important in our lives.  It is also a time when the adults in our church family promise to share some of their money with the church, so that it will continue to be here.

During every service we have an offertory.  The offertory is a time when people are invited to support the church by putting money in a basket.  No one has to pay in order to come to our Sunday service or church school, or even to belong to our church.  But all the money our church needs comes from church members and friends; they give money to our church and also help our church raise more money through projects like the Trash or Treasure sale. 

At family services you may have noticed that some people pass the offering basket on to the next person without putting any money in it.  Some of these folks are visitors.  But many of them are people who have promised to give money to the church every month; (That’s called a pledge.) they write checks to the church and mail their money to the church office.

Soon, your mom and/or your dad will be asked how much money they want to give to the church this next year.  We don’t ask church school students to give money to our church; but if you would like to make a donation, we would gladly accept it at the church office on a Sunday or during the family service on Easter.  Sharing our money with our church is a way of saying thank you for all the good things we receive by being a part of it.

Love, Colleen