Young Stewards: "A Day of Service"

Is there an age that is too young to teach stewardship?

We tested this idea in April during an all-school Day of Service. The goal of the day was to share our blessings (time, talent and treasure) with many agencies within a 20 radius of the school. Also, we wanted to share Christ's love by going into the community and witnessing through serving.

One hundred parents and teachers joined in as we carpooled to 16 locations - all 320 of us!

Our students blessed the homeless shelters, Salvation Army, food bank, clothing bank, senior center, soup kitchen, retirement home, and others.

Here's how one of the parents described the day:

"I just wanted to express how much we appreciated the Day of Service. It was such a blessing to see first-hand the Kindergartners and First graders at the Friendship House in Wilmington. It was equally rewarding to hear how much my girls were blessed by blessing others at Shoes to Share and the New Castle Senior Center. We've always tried to instill in the girls how giving back is part of being a Christian and showing Christ's love. But, to have the entire school involved and seeing it on the kids faces and hearing the testimonies of their parents--- it made such an impact on our school family, I can't imagine what an impact it must have made on our community! I pray that this will become a yearly event and that the people of Delaware will not only see Tall Oaks as an impressive academic school, but as a school where God is alive and working in the lives of our staff and students and parents."

Biblical stewardship is a way of thinking, not merely an activity that we do. Please contact me if you would like to hear more about this stewardship day.

Psalm 8:

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!