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why serve children and others!



Saturday is coming … registration for back2school 2026 … VBS (Vacation Bible Saturday) … tell gate grill (giving our burgers and praying for people).  Please pray as we serve and for those being served.


So many thoughts go through my mind as we get to serve children and their families.  God called us to “demonstrate the love of God to our community”, and that is our WHY?  Yet all the details of the WHAT tend to consume me.


Lots of things I hold near to my heart.  These are the things that keep me going, and these are the things I challenge you to to be part of in this ministry or wherever you are.

 

Isaiah 32:8 NLT

'But generous people plan to do what is generous, and they stand firm in their generosity.' 

 

Just do it, as NIKE says.  Choose to serve.  Choose to be generous with your abilities and your gifts.  Being generous is a non negotiable around here.  This is big in serving others.  

 

How will you help people hear about Jesus?  When we help people hear and meet Jesus, we are doing what Jesus told His closest followers to do before He left earth.  That message was for you and me.  And in so following and sharing people hear the truth!

 

Isaiah 32:3  NLT

'Then everyone who has eyes will be able to see the truth, and everyone who has ears will be able to hear it.' 

 

So share.  Be a conduit of blessing by giving generously.  That others see with their eyes.  But even more they will hear with their hearts.  Choose to serve so others know God like we know God.


Mark 16:15  NLT  

And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.

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