FHE ~ Tithing

Opening Song: “I’m Glad to Pay a Tithing,” Children’s Songbook, p. 150

Scripture: Malachi 3:10

Lesson/Activity:

Show your family ten objects of equal value—apples, coins, or the like. As you have the following discussion, separate them one by one.

Suppose your earnings for a month amounted to these. And you had promised to pay a tenth, or one of these, as a tithing. How easy it is to pay the first and have nine left. But when the first goes to the landlord, and the second goes to the grocer, and the third goes to that good natured fellow at the service station, and the fourth goes to the baker, and the fifth, and the sixth, and the seventh, just go . . . Suddenly the realization that there is but one left comes to you.

How much harder is it at that moment to give the remaining one as tithing. Too often at that moment such a person by default joins the kind of people who were admonished by Malachi: “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.”


Treat: Donut Holes

2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
6 1/4 cups oil
3/4 cup milk
1 egg
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

In a bowl combine flour, 1/4 cup sugar, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg. Stir in 1/4 cup oil, milk, and egg.
Drop by teaspoonfuls into 6 cups hot (375 degrees) oil. Fry about 3 minutes, until golden brown. Remove and drain.
Roll in 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon