Each week during the Sunday morning service, at offering time, children joyfully fill the center aisle, collecting quarters from grown-ups. When their hands are full, the children walk (or hop, or skip!) back up the aisle to put those quarters in the Goat Bank -- a tall, clear, cylindrical tube with room for $120 in quarters.
 
The Goat Bank is our Children's Mission to support the Goat Project at Heifer International, a nonprofit founded to help end hunger and poverty throughout the world. Whenever we fill up our Goat Bank, we send that $120 to Heifer International, and the organization then purchases a goat for a family in need somewhere in the world. 

This goat is no ordinary gift. A goat can change a family's life by providing nutrition and income with its milk. Furthermore, the recipients of the goat donate its first female offspring to another family in the community, who later do the same. The gift keeps giving, and growing, exponentially. Recipients become donors. (Two of our church members, Carolyn and Dave Llewellyn, worked for Heifer International, and met partners from all over the world whose communities have been transformed with these gifts.) 

For more info, go to www.heifer.org.. Also, check out these children's books from your local library. Or come to FPCP and peruse our copies.