Nickel Challenge (with Pies!)
Beginning Ash Wednesday (Feb. 22) and continuing all through Lent, D101 students are joining forces to help raise awareness and money for the Malaria initiative. D101 is made up of six small groups, divided by grade and gender. Those six groups will be competing in a “Nickel Challenge,” raising money for nets, as our church and ELCA have been promoting. Each team will have a milk jug to deposit nickels into each week. At the end of the six weeks, whichever team has collected the most money at the end of the challenge will win. There’s a catch, though. Other teams can sabotage the total by adding in quarters, dimes and dollar bills. Anything other than nickels will subtract from the teams total!! For example, if Team Sushi brings in $1.00 worth of nickels, but Team Blue Dat throws a quarter into Sushi’s bucket, their total is now only $.75 and so on. At the end of the six week challenge, the students in the group with the highest total get to throw a pie in the face of their fearless leaders! D101 leaders have stepped out on faith each week to teach our junior high students, but are really daring to be different, for the sake of the cause! Start saving those nickels!
