Serving Children in Need

Next Saturday, October 9, our church will be packing items into bags to be given to children who are entering foster care. Few of these items will last longer than a month. Many will be used within the first few days. Little, everyday things like diapers, wipes, formula, and infant-sized socks will make up most of our time and efforts.

Non-Christians could provide such items. Atheists could assemble them into bags. Haters of all-things-Christianity could deliver them. And our little bags, lined up next to their little bags, could arrive together at someone’s front door looking no different from one another.

But they would be different.

These two bags would be different from one another in this one, major way: God sees ours and smiles.

He does. The God of the universe who is awesome in splendor, perfect in power, matchless in wisdom, and the very fount of all things good — He sees the work of our limited human hands and smiles. Why?

Because he sees our work for what it really is — An overflow of our love for what he loves.

It's not a performance to gain social approval. Not an attempt to remove worldly guilt. Not a generic act of goodwill for our fellow man. But an overflow of the heart that’s been so transformed God that it can now not only see what he loves, but also love what he loves. And our God loves children. He loves families. He loves to see his people giving of themselves to serve the weak and the lowly, the lost and forgotten.

It is because of this love that he can smile upon such simple provisions as diapers, wipes, and infant-sized socks.

Friends, this is why we participate in efforts like these, because we have a God who smiles when his people overflow in love for what he loves, and it is truly a joy to serve others, to seek the good of our cities.

Click the button below to sign up and tell us what items you can bring.