As you know, if you’ve been reading, for quite some time, I’ve occasionally been running little installments called “Mama’s K.I.S.S.” I know that lots of readers could give many more and far more creative ideas than I can offer, but these installments are just a few tried and true and mostly old-fashioned ideas for putting service hearts in our kids. This is number 78 of a list of one hundred ways we train our kids to serve. K.I.S.S. is an acronym for “Kids In Service Suggestions”.
Somebody in your congregation, if you are a young church, is already taking the time and effort to sanitize the nursery class each week. Every little plastic car that rolls on the table while they are singing “The wheels on the car go round and round…on the way to Bible class/“ has to be rubbed down with a germ-killing wipe. The linens on the changing table have to be washed 
and replaced. The table -top that has their little bucket safety seats has to be disinfected and the little clocks they hold during “Tick-tock, time for Bible class” do, too. The diaper pail has to be emptied.
Why not ask the nursery teacher if your teens can do this job for a month of Sundays? You can supervise them if they are young and inexperienced. It’s a great time to teach them how to sanitize while teaching them how to serve. (This one is on almost the same level as the washing of feet in the upper room. It’s not a pretty job. That pail has a stench. But it’s a really necessary job.) This service is valuable in the development of your young “department of sanitation.”
Then at the end of your month, leave a little surprise on the table for the teacher: a little goody basket or a candle or a box of chocolates. Include a note that tells her how much she’s appreciated. After all, she may be the one who is changing the diapers AND emptying the pail. Include this verse in a card.
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish (Matthew 18:14)
