Comments on: 40/40 – Lenten Activities: Operation Rice Bowl http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2009/03/01/4040-lenten-activities-operation-rice-bowl/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:43:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joe http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2009/03/01/4040-lenten-activities-operation-rice-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-1222 Joe Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:57:22 +0000 http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/?p=832#comment-1222 Larry, thanks for sharing your experience with ORB! Larry, thanks for sharing your experience with ORB!

]]> By: Larry http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2009/03/01/4040-lenten-activities-operation-rice-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-1221 Larry Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:52:23 +0000 http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/?p=832#comment-1221 Joe, This years rice bowl came with an added note that gave us an actual destination for our alms. The monies will go to needy children in Bangladesh where about 36% of the population lives on less than $1 a day and many children make up the work force. My daughter and I decorated a coffee can on which we wrote "Change for Christ". I have had it in the class room for several weeks. I explained how churches use to have Poor Boxes in the back (some still do) where you deposited your pocket change on the way out of church. I have challenged them not only to fill their rice bowls but to fill the coffee can. I like the 100 penny plan and will use that to explain how important it is for us to share our wealth. Thanks for your ideas and your website. God Bless! Joe,
This years rice bowl came with an added note that gave us an actual destination for our alms. The monies will go to needy children in Bangladesh where about 36% of the population lives on less than $1 a day and many children make up the work force.

My daughter and I decorated a coffee can on which we wrote “Change for Christ”.
I have had it in the class room for several weeks. I explained how churches use to have Poor Boxes in the back (some still do) where you deposited your pocket change on the way out of church. I have challenged them not only to fill their rice bowls but to fill the coffee can.

I like the 100 penny plan and will use that to explain how important it is for us to share our wealth.

Thanks for your ideas and your website. God Bless!

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