Caring cards.

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Making a caring card for someone.


One of Shannon's ideas for the morning kid's crusade/VBS, on the day the children learned about Job, was to have them create caring cards.

Regular blog readers know I'm a huge fan of writing and sending and saving letters and cards and letting people know you care and that you appreciate them by doing that. So of course, I thought the idea was fabulous.

And it was.

The kids had a great time, and we later heard of how proud they were of what they'd made when the went home and showed their parents.

I even made a caring card, sitting down in a circle of kids who quickly swarmed all over me wanting me to help them draw things on their card. My idea was to make a "caring card" and pass it around the group, with it being given to whoever seemed to be having a tough day. I never got the idea to work, though. I didn't get everyone's signature inside and I just never seemed to find the time to explain the idea. (front of card | inside of card)

Don't do that, if you decided to make a caring card. You gotta send it out!

I loved that concept that Shannon came up with for the day's project. I remember, about ten years ago, I was teaching the teen Sunday school class. I had them make cards for people in the church, and then pray for the people as we put the cards in the church mailboxes during Sunday school hour. It was a blessing to the kids to be able to stop being teens in the usual sense (i.e. "what can the church do for me, to entertain me and keep me in church") and start being fellow brothers and sisters in Christ (i.e. "what can I do for those who are older than me to remind them of Christ's love and be an example").

::I have, in the past, made a free download or two available for readers to send out something similar to the idea of a caring card. I'd encourage you to consider sending out something to someone to let them know you care.::

Labels: kids, nicaragua, nicaragua 2008, writing

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