Matthew 20:28a even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve.
Don’t we serve our kids all day everyday? How can we begin to show our (especially young) children to serve others? Our missional community group (made up of three families) at church has been thinking on that and one simple idea we had was to pass out bags to the homeless in Austin filled with food, soap, and other goods (James printed out a list of shelters, education centers, rehab facilities, etc. to go in each bag too.)
We gathered at our house last Saturday morning and James is reading to them Matthew 25:31-46
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Then we had all the kids make cards to put in each bag (each family made 5 bags to pass out.)
I had to take pictures of some of these cards because they were just precious.
Levi’s card:
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| From Levi to a homeless person 🙂 Jesus loves you! |
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| inside Levi’s card: I love you! Jesus has your heart! |
Cole’s card was more thought provoking to the person who reads it:
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| You can’t see from the picture but it reads, “Jesus loves me?” 🙂 |
Rilyn’s card (she found and chose this verse herself in the Bible):
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| Rilyn wrote Psalm 5:3 “Lord, every morning you hear my voice. Every morning,
I tell you what I need, and I wait for your answer.” I love this verse for this occasion! The Holy Spirit guided her to the perfect verse! |
After we made all the cards, we had the kids go around our table and fill the bags.
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| Ella and Anna filling bags |
Then we all drove off in different parts of town as families and gave out the bags.
Was this a particularly impactful service project for the city? Probably not. Unless we went out every weekend and started to form relationships with the same homeless folks. However, our goal was to show our kids ways to serve.
That even as children, they can serve. 1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.”
We prayed this over Rilyn this morning before school. For her to have a servant’s heart. Ephesians 6:7 “Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men.”
the paquettes 