“Serve Others” Sub-Pages:
Quotes – Praying It – Basking In It – Digging Deeper – Making It Real
Why Is Service Important?
- Great place for challenge and growth in kids – encounter some of the difficulties while being part of the solution.
- Encounter people where they are.
- Kids need a chance to experience the fact that the world does not revolve around them.
- Gain some perspective on how good their own lives are by seeing how others live.
- Can circle back to the humility and trust thing – learn to ask for help when they do need it (and we all do).
- Can be done as a family – good for challenge and witness!
- Love in action.
How Can We Serve?
A great place to start is the Church’s traditional listing of the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy.
| The Corporal Works of Mercy To feed the hungry; To give drink to the thirsty; To clothe the naked; To harbour the harbourless; To visit the sick; To ransom the captive; To bury the dead. |
The Spiritual Works of Mercy To instruct the ignorant; To counsel the doubtful; To admonish sinners; To bear wrongs patiently; To forgive offences willingly; To comfort the afflicted; To pray for the living and the dead. |
Living Differently 