Opening Doors for Service To really teach your children to develop a servant’s heart, you must take them by the hand and lead them, showing them how to do it. When our daughter Laura was about 10 years old, I began taking her to visit an elderly couple from our church who were retired missionaries….
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Cultivating a Servant’s Heart in Our Children: Part 2
-God has ordained the family to be the basic training ground for our children to learn to become people God can use. It is our job to guide our children in character and to then create service projects to help them apply what they have been learning to their daily lives. As a young mom, I guess…
Cultivating a Servant’s Heart in Our Children: Part 1
One of our priorities in training our children was to try to teach them to be others-focused, or in other words, to build within them a heart of service. This doesn’t come naturally. We are all more attentive to our own needs naturally. We need to train our children to stop and intentionally think about…
