How Do We Serve Children?

[The fonts on the re-post were just flat out un- cooperative...]

George asked the question, "How do we serve children?"

We serve a God who came to serve. It's one significant facet of who he is. As we're thinking about Christ-like child formation, assuming we have a role to play in that formation process. It's one of the threads in the tapestry or an element in the clay, however you want to look at it.

How do we (parents? a faith community?) serve children? How do we serve them in a way that equips them to serve, as opposed to creating little people (and eventually adults) who expect to be served or who expect to be entertained? (There's a time and a place for some of that.)

The flip side of that involves giving children (and adults) opportunities to serve - not just serving one another but others.

Service that equips someone else to serve...

(c) 2005 Margie Hillenbrand