As you help girls to “Seek, Serve and follow Christ” you will discover more about your own faith – things that will challenge you to think differently or that will help clarify issues you may have been struggling with for a while. There will be more opportunity during your leadership journey that will allow you to explore your own faith and thinking and how it impacts on you as a leader but at the moment it is important to remember that our motto is there to guide the girls. It is impossible for you as a Christian leader to help them on their journey without being affected yourself.

As you help girls to “Seek, Serve and follow Christ” you will discover more about your own faith – things that will challenge you to think differently or that will help clarify issues you may have been struggling with for a while. There will be more opportunity during your leadership journey that will allow you to explore your own faith and thinking and how it impacts on you as a leader but at the moment it is important to remember that our motto is there to guide the girls. It is impossible for you as a Christian leader to help them on their journey without being affected yourself.

“Now set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God.”

1 Chronicles 22:19

“The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.” Psalm 14:2

“God did this so that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from any one of us.” Acts17:27

God desires all of us to look around our environments and recognise our need for Him. He is actively looking for those who are seeking Him, regardless of who they are, where they live or what they do. He has planned for us to seek Him.

Seeking

Serving

Consider this from Martin Luther King Jr :  “The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop and help this man, what will happen to him?”  By volunteering with GBS you are asking yourself the second question. Christian service lies at the heart of your leadership and at the heart of the organisation.

“Prayer in action is love and love in action is service.”

Mother Theresa

“One of the principal rules of religion is to lose no occasion of serving God. And since He is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour”

John Weasley

“All Christians are but God’s stewards. Everything we have is on loan from the Lord, entrusted to us for a while to use in serving Him.” John MacArthur

FollowingAs you follow the path laid out for you by God, you will show the girls you are working with that they have choices to make in how they decide to follow Christ. By example you will open up possibilities to them and encourage them in their exploring.

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”

Matthew 4:19

“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me” John 10: 27-28

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

How can you as a Christian help girls to seek, serve and follow Christ? Talk to those you are working with, do not be afraid to debate faith issues with them in an age appropriate way and show them Christ’s love in action through your practical example. Be serious and honest with them about your faith but show them humour and compassion as well. Our God is a loving God and it is Him who has guided you to this position of service.

Seek the hand of God in the world around you. Serve His purpose working alongside the people He calls you to help and support. Follow His word in all that you do and say. Seek Him and Serve Him and Follow Him by learning from those you lead.

How can you as a Christian help girls to seek, serve and follow Christ? Talk to those you are working with, do not be afraid to debate faith issues with them in an age appropriate way and show them Christ’s love in action through your practical example. Be serious and honest with them about your faith but show them humour and compassion as well. Our God is a loving God and it is Him who has guided you to this position of service.

Seek the hand of God in the world around you. Serve His purpose working alongside the people He calls you to help and support. Follow His word in all that you do and say. Seek Him and Serve Him and Follow Him by learning from those you lead.

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28