Year of Service

I have really been thinking about service hood lately. We've discussed it in church and Sunday school several times lately. (God know's how to connect all those dots doesn't He??) Did you know that the word servant(s) is mentioned in the Bible 965 times in the King James Version? The words service and serve are mentioned 341 in the KJV. Maybe God is trying to tell us something.

"For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom
as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For
the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.” ~ Galatians 5:13-14

"Even the Son of Man came not be served, but to serve..."
Matthew 20:28 & Mark 10:45

This isn't the first time that God has brought this to my attention. In 2009, my children and I set out to volunteer once a month a different organizations. This is a picture of the kids at the Veteran's Retirement Home. We did good for the first half of the year. Then, my focus got shifted. It's harder than you might think to find different places that will take younger children to help. But no excues, it got difficult and I gave up. Not my kids, they still mention how they want to start volunteering again. We all loved it.

So, this year, we are going to start and finish our year of service. Some months might be yardwork for some widow's in the church. The kids, of course, want to go back to the animal shelter we went last time. Joey loves the elderly so we'll be visiting a nursing home or two. What ever doors that God leads us too...we'll trust Him to open.