Mentone’s Mount Calvary kids give to Children’s Homes

Inside the children’s Sunday School class at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Mentone, sits the “Sunshine Box.” 

Every Sunday, children who participate in the class bring a dollar bill with them and put it in the box in memory of Ellen Pruitt, who taught the class for many years. At the end of each year, children from the Lookout Mountain Baptist Association church donate the money to Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries’ Friendship House in Oxford in honor of Pruitt. 

In its last donation, the Sunday School class gave $700 to Friendship House, according to Tammy Johnson, current Sunday School teacher and church treasurer. 

And now it’s become more of a church-wide ministry, she said. 

“Every Sunday, adults will come by the classroom and give a dollar or two to put in the Sunshine Box, so we all kind of participate in the ministry.”

The church also supports ministries through the Cooperative Program, North American Mission Board, Baptist International Missions Inc. and gives funds to Hope Rebirth Homeless Shelter in Summerville, Georgia. Jack Green is pastor.