Back to School Challenge

It has been such an amazing summer for Maranatha’s Children’s Ministry.  We have had some great camps, a lot of middle school volunteers step up and encouraging support and participation by our leaders (that’s you).  As you know, all good things come to an end though… and here it is.  Summer is ending and it is time for our children to head back to school.

As we launch into a new school year in the Children’s Ministry we hope to be more effective than ever in our efforts to reach families in our community.  In order to do so, we ask that everyone on the team remain committed, focused and passionate about Growing, Connecting and Serving.

Commitment:  The only way that we can effectively serve the children and families of our community is as a team.  No one person can do it alone.  As a part of the team many people rely on you each week.  Maranatha Church relies on you to be there for our children.  Than and Megan rely on you to serve God by serving the children.  Your care leader relies on you to be in position and ready to serve when it is “your week” to do so.  Other volunteers rely on you to lead or assist them in the classroom.  Finally the children rely on you to be there, prepared and ready to teach them, making the love of God obvious as you do so.  Please meet these expectations with a strong sense of commitment and community.

Focus:  What we do takes focus.  It would be great if the only thing anyone had going on in life was loving their family and serving God by serving children.  That would make things really easy for us and for you.  Unfortunately I think that we all know life has a lot more going on than that.  Many times, life get’s busy and our focus is pulled in many different directions.  If you find yourself in this situation this school year, we are here to support you and to help you in any way that you can.  We hope that as life gets busy, you can continue to focus some of your energy on what God has called us all to do in serving Him.  We hope you can continue to serve the children and share the limited “focus” that you have, with them.  We believe that God will honor your commitment and focus on His work.

Passion:  is defined as a strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything:  Basically, when we serve the children we need to do so in a strong, extravagant (going beyond what is deserved or justifiable) and enthusiastic way.  We are serving God, by serving children.  If we can’t do it with passion, it probably isn’t worth doing. 

Let’s be committed and focused, as we serve with passion this school year, in everything God has called us to do.

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