All Treat, No Trick!

Hey everyone, sorry for no post yesterday, but we hurriedly went to visit a church member that was admitted to an out of state hospital, and that kind of took out the whole day. To make up for it though I will have something fun for you tomorrow. In the mean time I wanted to fill you all in on a quick, and easy, act of service for your youth group this Halloween.

UNICEF has been doing the collecting change with trick-or-treating thing for over 60 years, and have raised over $167 Million for kids in need of food, immunizations, and education. What I would bet you didn't know was that the whole thing came into being by a pastor's wife who after passing out candy to kids on Halloween said, "It's too bad we can't turn this into something good."

Of course she found a way to do so, and I would challenge you to do the same. You see Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year. We know that kids won't show up that night, so our church is cancelling it's children and teen programs that normally meet on Wednesday evenings. However, while they are out gallivanting in the streets of their neighborhood we are enabling them to turn it into something good. We ordered a FREE package from UNICEF and got two dozen cool looking donation boxes, some posters, and even a 1 Gig jump drive full of other resources to use. What is best is that we got our package in a little over a week.

There is still time for you to advertise this to your kids and receive a package to disperse to your kids. Tell them the story of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF's beginning, that they should show the love of Christ by taking a young neighborhood kid or sibling trick-or-treating, and that they can aide in helping kids around the world while they do it.

So there you go. I hope you can add this into an upcoming devotion as a challenge or just make it a church wide service opportunity. It's super easy and your kids will have fun with it.

See you all tomorrow!