Hands and Feet

 

“If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant with be also.  If anyone serves Me, him My father will honor.” 

John 12:26

As believers we know that God created us for a purpose, to be in a love relationship with Him, and to strive to be like His Son, Jesus.  Jesus is our perfect example at how we should live on earth, how we should treat others with compassion, how we should serve the least of these, how we should give up ourselves to be filled with more of Him.

 

These past couple weeks in Sunday School we have been teaching the children about Jesus’ example of servant hood; how “He didn’t come to be served, but to serve.”  We washed their feet, just as Jesus washed the feet of his disciples.  When we asked the children what they were thinking as we went around washing their feet they said they felt “loved”. 

While teaching this lesson, we were convicted to challenge the children to put their faith into action, to start being the hands and feet of Jesus right here in their own community.  We have started doing service projects every Saturday and hope to continue this program as long as God allows.  We have started cleaning up God’s creation in this community, by collecting the trash and then burning it.  We are praying that God will bring other tasks our way, small projects the children can participate in and through their faithfulness, make a difference for Christ’s kingdom. 

Please pray as we face persecution, negative attitudes, and any else the devil might throw our way; hat we will stand and fight for what Christ has called us to do.  The children have already been faced with the shop owners calling them “foolish” for picking up trash, but praise God when we gathered to do the same service project the following week, even more children attended and we got 14 large trash bags filled with rubbish on the dirt roads.  Pray that their heart of service will stay strong and God will use them as examples in the community to spread His light in the dark shadows to lurk among us.