After my post on Parents Waiting for God(ot), the question was asked, “What are some every day ways kids can serve God?” Service projects are obvious ways to serve God. I have a ton of ideas for service projects detailed in other posts or pinned on Pinterest. While service projects are great, they are often not things you can do every single day.
There are plenty of other things your children can do every day to serve God. These projects don’t cost any (or much) money or require large blocks of time set aside to do them. There is one important skill you will have to develop in your children though, to make them successful in every day service to God.
Are you in a service rut with the teens in your family or youth group? It seems as if there is an unwritten rule stating all teen service projects must involve painting some portion of a building or doing yard-work. By relying on the same types of service projects over and over (often with only the locale changing), we are denying our teens an opportunity to explore how they can use some of their talents for God.
Our daughter had quite a flair for the dramatic when she was younger (I can’t imagine from whom she inherited that trait!). At one point, I warned our pediatrician I would probably bring my daughter in one day with an arm that had been broken for a couple of days. I told the doctor I wasn’t abusive. It was just that every tiny injury our daughter had at that age was most definitely “a broken something, from which I may probably die” (pronounced with much wailing and gnashing of teeth). The pediatrician smiled and said it was a common story from the parents of her patients.