September is Alabaster month!

September is a time for collecting and submitting change (and dollars, too!) for building churches around the world!  This is a great opportunity to get your kids excited and involved in giving.  Challenge your kids THIS Sunday to start collecting money at home for an all-church collection on Sunday, September 29 (or October 6).  

There are MANY ways to make this fun!  

You can always use the traditional Alabaster box.  Send one home with each child and challenge them to FILL IT UP!

Don't have any boxes on hand?? 

Get creative!  

I have seen churches use M&M Mini's containers (send one home with the kids- full of mini m&ms and they bring it back filled with coins), or giant church shaped piggy banks, or even operate a "keep the change" Sunday.  For "Keep the Change" Sunday you can ask the congregation to empty their pockets, purses, and wallets of all their change into the normal offering collection.  You can give your ushers a break and let the kid's do the collecting!  All loose change/dollars placed in the offering go to Alabaster! An extended version of this includes collecting change in the parking lot... Have kids (or teens) and volunteers stand at the exit of your parking lot and as the congregation drives out - the kids ask them to clean out the change in their car!  That really is where we usually stash it all - isn't it?!

There is not ONE right way to do this!  The only wrong thing would be to NOT do it all!  This does not require hours of planning or any budgeted money and the options are only limited by your imagination!

Make sure that you explain to the kids (and congregation) WHY we are collecting money!  Below is a great video to get the message across:

We want to know!  How do YOU collect Alabaster offering at your church??  

Comment and let's share some ideas!

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