joyful noise offering

Looking for a new way to support mission projects in your church? Try a joyful noise offering!

We put up a bulletin board (or some sort of display) describing the project. Then we encourage the congregation to save their loose change. On Sunday, the children then carry painter's buckets (the metal kinds you can find in the hardware store) during the offering and people drop their change into the bucket.

Benefits:

• people generally don't miss their loose change and find it an easy way to contribute in second-mile giving.
• the sound of the change in the buckets is amazing!
• it's a quick, easy that involves the children and congregation in funding important missions.

Don't like to count change? (Join the club!) Take the buckets to your local bank or credit union that have free coin sorters. You'll be amazed with how much money can be raised this way.