Youth & Family Lenten Offerings

Lent-at-Home Boxes

Lent-at-Home Boxes are available for pick up at Saint David's beginning on Ash Wednesday! Each box is filled with lenten activities, crafts, and ideas for reflection for the whole family. Families are welcome to pick up boxes after any of the worship services during lent, or may stop by the parish offices on Wednesdays between 10am and 3:30pm for pick up. If you would prefer to have your box delivered to your house, please email Lizzie (Lizzie@stdavidsdc.org), and we would be happy to get it to you. We hope these boxes provide your family with opportunities for togetherness, reflection, and renewal this lenten season.

Mite Boxes

Mite boxes, named for the story of the "widow's mite" (Mark 12:41–43) are often used by churches to encourage children and others to give offerings of their coins and small change. This lenten season, we invite all the people of St. David's, young and at heart, to collect coins in a mite box to benefit the Diocesan COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund. Mite boxes will be available for pick up at any of the in-person worship services and during communion pick up during Lent and will be included in the Lent-at-Home boxes for families. Mite boxes will also be available in the parish offices during the week. Children and adults are asked to collect coins throughout the season of Lent and return the boxes as an offering on Easter Sunday or during the week following Easter. You may wish to keep your mite boxes on your kitchen counter or dinner table where they can easily receive the tokens of your generosity and hope. It's easy to think that such small amounts don't add up to much, but just as the two coins were a lot to the widow, your "mites" for the Diocesan COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund will go a long way towards helping others in need.

Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth, but she, out of her poverty, put in everything — all she had to live on" (Mark 12:41–43).