Posts Tagged ‘Service’

How to Serve Those Who Serve Us

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

This week has been one filled with great inspi­ra­tion and sor­row for me.

I am writ­ing this from one of the most beau­ti­ful loca­tions I have ever been to. I am at Mal­ibu, which is a Young Life Camp located in Canada in a nar­row fjord called Princess Louisa Inlet. The first pic­ture included here shows the beauty of this place. The other is my inspi­ra­tion for this post.

On Mon­day, I arrived here with my son Wes­ley and about 50 young peo­ple from our church. We are here to serve the fam­i­lies of US mil­i­tary who have recently returned from deploy­ment in Afghanistan or Iraq. Some have only been back in the states for a few weeks, and this is the first real down time they have had with their wives, hus­bands and kids.

Re-entry can be very dif­fi­cult, and my role has been to serve as a small group leader with a few cou­ples. It has been truly rich and wonderful.

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