Christian Service In The Youth

At my church, Riverrun Christian Church, back in Oviedo, Florida I am one of our youth sponsors and leader of a family group. I lead the ninth and eleventh grade guys along with our worship leader. We just finished up a series based off the movie 'To Save A Life' and are starting a series based off the book 'Do Hard Things'. Since we are doing these two series and keeping the kids in their family groups, we decided that it would be a good idea to do some thing with them outside the church in our community. So for the past three weeks all six of the family groups we have in our youth group have been brainstorming ideas for a Christian service act that everyone in the family group is going to go out and perform next Saturday. The family group that I am leading has come up with some great ideas. Some of those ideas are helping the elderly people in our community who can not mow their own lawn by going to their houses and doing yard work for them, going out and painting houses that desperately need paint but the owners cant physically go out and do all the painting work, going to downtown Orlando and feeding the homeless on that Saturday and spending the afternoon hanging out with them and talking to them and sharing with them the word of God, and they came up with the idea to go out and help build houses with Habitat for Humanity. I think that it is a great idea that we are doing this with our youth. Every time that my family group is coming up with ideas and trying to decide which one to choose I remind them that we do not want to just go out and do the easy service we can. We need to really pray about what service really needs to be done in our commnity and go out and do it for God and not just do it because we are supposed to. This Sunday night at youth all six family groups are going to get up on stage and announce what Christian service act they are going to perform and I can not wait to see what God has in store for our community through the Christian service our youth are prepared to perform.