Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Eden's Lemonade Stand

This is a sweet story about my granddaughter, Eden. She is 4 years old and goes to Waters Edge Church, in York County, VA. We are a mobile church, setting up and tearing down for each of our 4 services on Sundays. She became a christian last year and gave her heart to Jesus. She told her mom that she didn't want to live one more day with sin in her heart, so she accepted Jesus into her heart and went around telling everyone who would listen that she was a christian now. It was beautiful. Our church has been, for the past three years, on a spiritual initiative called "The Big Dream." This is the last year of this spiritual initiative and our big dream is to build a building to house our church. Well, the story is this...Preschoolers in our church were to do chores to earn money to give to the big dream. Eden did that and earned the $7.00 she had as a goal for doing her chores for the week. She then decided to do a lemonade stand in her front yard during the community garage sale in her neighborhood and earned $40.00 to give to the big dream. That is something for a four-year old little girl. She never once asked could she have some of the money for herself and she was so proud to give to the church the money that she had earned herself. God is good.

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