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 82 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”.
I love this one so much because I have been the recipient of it. Our wonderful and now deceased sister, Hosie Lawson, was the one I thought of so often in the very hot hills of Jamaica, when there was no place to stop and buy food, except sometimes a dirty little roadside stall where the vendor was behind bars and handed you the requested can of chicken or pack of crackers through a little hole in those bars. But at home, there was Hosie.
…sweet Mrs. Hosie!
Hosie had bought generous portions of nuts and dried fruit and tiny pretzels and candies (lots of M&Ms). She had purchased small zippy bags . She had mixed all of her sweets and salties in a large bowl or tub and made each of us travelers a good quantity of bags of trail mix for our suitcases. She delivered them to us on the Wednesday night before we left for the work in another country. Let me tell you…these bags literally saved us…in Jamaica, or Ukraine, or Columbia. They were the sustenance on many a day!
And your kids will love this process, from purchasing to delivering to your missionaries. SO many bonuses are involved. When your kids hear the mission report later on, they will be invested. They will know they had a part. When the missionaries get back home, your kids will engage in conversation about where and how the trail mix saved the day. Your kids will draw closer to faithful servants. They can do it in groups and enjoy fellowship together. This one is so simple, you will want to do it again and again.
It’s an easy seed to plant the servant heart you’re cultivating.
