Church World Service has Tools of Hope cards for Fathers' Day. Instead of purchasing a greeting card, children and families purchase a card that will buy a tool to allow a family without food to start growing their own. Our gifts buy hoes, shovels, and seeds. We bring in food to share from our gardens during the summer and insist that people without gardens take home fresh vegetables. We hand out goodies on the way out of worship.
Children can help make the deliveries.
We each do an environmental survey to evaluate how well we are doing in caring for our earth. Gardening and earth stewardship go hand in hand. Every January or February we do something exciting involving the church school and the adults to restore our energy in mid-winter. This year we carried out a modified Marketplace 29AD with the whole church set up like a biblical village. The children became apprentices.