Summer of Servanthood Archive

  • Driven by Love

    Driven by Love

    Submitted by Shufei…Yesterday (6/29), Amanda and Baby Rebekah were discharged from Alta Bates Hospital. Allen and Amanda’s parents were so excited that everyone was going home. Sara Hong and I drove our respective vans to give everybody a ride home as well as transport all...

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  • God at Work

    God at Work

    Submitted by Christina…This week at Life Lutheran Church, we had our second service with 8 youth students attending.  Most of the youth were returnees from last week, but we were also happy to see three new faces.  We started off our time together with an icebreaker....

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  • Summer of Servanthood

    Summer of Servanthood

    Please share your summer of service stories here! Share ideas of how you can be a servant this summer, stories of what you’ve done to apply the messages, or just share how you’ve been blessed by others’ servanthood or the message on servanthood. Share by...

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  • God will roll away the stone

    God will roll away the stone

    Submitted by May… Being able to go help the MN team settle in, I was able to get a front row seat of how God was actively answering prayers even before the team arrival date on June 8, 2010. It was especially timely and appropriate...

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  • Serving the community

    Serving the community

    Submitted by Franklin… Last Saturday, I went with my roommates to volunteer at a local church to help with distributing food to their community. (This is the same church that we’d been using for weekly SF prayer meetings this past semester.) We had learned that...

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  • Background work

    Background work

    Submitted by Paul… Our Visiting Scholars Ministry would not be possible without the help of many servant-like people in Praxis at Gracepoint Berkeley. One way to look at servanthood is to understand that servants are people who work in the background unnoticed, so that the...

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  • A Chance to Serve

    A Chance to Serve

    Submitted by Khanh…On the warm, first Sunday morning of June, Azusa, Tiffany, Victoria and I arrived at Vietnamese Ministries for our first youth service in downtown Oakland. The sisters and I went into the building that was apparently home to churches of varied ethnicities. We...

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  • Church plant moves – Gracepoint Riverside, San Diego, Minneapolis

    Church plant moves – Gracepoint Riverside, San Diego, Minneapolis

    Submitted by Allen…   One story I wanted to share is our move to Riverside. I’m so thankful for all the many brothers and sisters who came to help out with the move, sacrificing time and taking time off work to come help with the packing,...

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  • Putting our shoulders to work side by side

    Putting our shoulders to work side by side

    Submitted by John…    To go to Central Asia was an amazing privilege. I still can’t believe I got to go and with my closest and best friends.  I was last there 10 years ago, 1 year out of college and bubbling with enthusiasm and...

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  • The Joy of Servanthood

    The Joy of Servanthood

    Submitted by Daniel… I am blessed by my mom’s servant-like attitude, and it gives me a window into the sheer joy of servanthood. For a few years now, she has been wanting to serve the handicapped or autistic children, spending her free time taking classes...

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  • A Youthful Presence

    A Youthful Presence

    Submitted by Jane…This past Sunday, Interhigh Fellowship sent out the first team to conduct a youth worship service at a small Korean church in Hayward. Esther Kang, Kevin Jeung, Sam Hudnet, and I were excited to be a part of this historic move. Without a...

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