6 ways Christian parents can help encourage their children to give

In a cashless society giving is not visible, so helping youth and children think about giving can be tricky - Jenni Whymark has some ideas Christian parents can try

As a child, it was always exciting if you were chosen to be one of the people to pass the offering plates around in the church service. We would watch them go up and down the row before moving it on to the next. Other weeks, when Sunday School was on, we would take coins to put into a pot as the group had a sponsor child in another country. The leaders would share about how our gifts were helping to change someone’s life.

For me, giving at church was very normal. From a young age, I knew that people gave money to church.

Our children are young (just turned 5 and about to turn 7), and to them, money comes when you tap your phone against a machine

The other day I had one of those random thought moments which led to a conversation with my husband about how we would teach our children about giving now that the offering plates don’t go around. How do we help them to understand this is part of our worship to God when they ……