What might ‘To Serve and to be Served’ look like in a school community?

9. What might ‘To Serve and to be Served’ look like in a school community?

It will mean the sharing of our gifts to worship the Lord together

Our gifts in music will be expressed in lunch-time mini-concerts; we will encourage students to tutor others in musicianship.

We will create books; we will perform poetry readings

We will design and generate community murals, tapestries, and painting.

Because we grow in more intimate knowledge of each person and we love them, we will recognise when help, care, tears and encouragement are required.

We will encourage students in greeting one another at school entrances; caring for one another during recess and lunch breaks.

We will have classes lead devotional times with other classes; not just older students inputting into the lives of younger children, but also younger children ministering to more senior students.

We will involve our students in construction projects around the school that will benefit the community.

We will have a positive impact on our local region beyond the fences of the school. We may commit to making sure that our local bus shelter or park is kept clean and neat. We may visit immediate neighbours to offer assistance. We will encourage cross-generational service.

We will help one another to see “patterns of service”. The incarnate Christ SAW the needs of sinful humanity; FELT the pain of people and MOVED towards the resolution of that pain and anguish.

So, we’ll train ourselves and our young people to SEE needs FEEL the needs of people and MOVE towards the resolution of those needs.

We will become the picture of the Incarnate Christ in our communities.

Blessings
Brian