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Posted: May 08 2012 at 8:06pm | IP Logged Quote Angie Mc
Our parish doesn't supply children's offertory envelopes. Does anyone know if there is a place to order only a few boxes?   

And/or...can you help me to brainstorm a way to make them myself? Would you go through the trouble or simply have children place money in the basket?

What is your experience? Thanks!

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Posted: May 08 2012 at 8:11pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
we just have the children place money in the basket.. if I had an older child who had a job and was making enough to matter.. then I could see doing it so they'd have record of the donations for taxes.

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Posted: May 09 2012 at 12:50pm | IP Logged Quote pmeilaen
Our old parish (our church just closed because our priest retired -- he is 90) had envelopes for the children. We used them for all children older than 5. Once a child turns 5 in our family, he gets a weekly allowance of 25 cents plus 5 cents for the offertory. Once they turn 10 they get $1.00 per week and have to put 10 cents of it into the offertory.

Our new church doesn't have any envelopes like that, but I thought I would ask them if they could offer them. I found a few places that sell those envelopes, but none of them looks like the ones we used to have.

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I liked the envelopes because the giving of the money was more conscious. Our children had to fill out the front of the envelope and put the money inside before we left for church. It was also easier to have those envelopes instead of coins that could be dropped to the floor when the time came to put them into the basket.      

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Posted: May 09 2012 at 5:39pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Yes, I like the envelopes as I think it helps set apart hte giving as something significant like Eva mentioned. Our parish at various times has made them avaailable for the children and we like when they do that. We have not bought them on our own to use. Looking around it seems most the Catholic companies that have them, only sell wholesale to churches so can't just get a pack or two. I really like the saints set that in in the bottom link above - OSV sells those as well.

In regards to your other question about making them yourself - it is really easy to make envelopes of any size - just need a template. If you can get a hold of an old childen's offering envelope and open it up, you can make it into a template.

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Posted: May 09 2012 at 9:42pm | IP Logged Quote CatholicMommy
When we are at parishes that don't have children's envelopes, I either let my son use mine (I typically do once a month for the sake of my budget) or he uses a blank envelope and just writes his name on it. Our current parish has 50-ish families, so it's obvious who it is. Our parishes (2 simultaneous) before that, I was the DRE and he used my envelopes with his name written on, after he used up the kid envelopes we had from before; in Minnesota, he had kid envelopes - they were a nice touch, but rather generic (as in, not specifically Catholic, so perhaps look at non-Catholic companies????); before that he was just getting into it and used mine.

It really is good for the kids - and having that envelope makes it a LOT more official.


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