-Adapted from Henrietta Mears
- I’ll never give up on a kid as ‘unreachable.’
- I won’t think my job is done when a kid has made a decision to follow Christ. I’ll help them realize how necessary it is:
- To pray
- To read God’s Word daily
- To read helpful books
- To regularly unite with God’s people
- To serve others and do ministry
- I’ll help them find a place to serve and use the gifts God has given them.
- I’ll teach them how following Jesus looks in everyday life.
- I’ll show them practical ways to help meet the needs of the world – comfort for the stranger, food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty (Matthew 25).
- I’ll seek to help each one discover the will of God.
- I’ll try to see in them what God sees in them. Michelangelo saw the face of an angel in a discarded stone. Christ saw a writer in a tax collector, a preacher in a fisherman, a world evangelist in a murderer. He uses foolish things and the weak and the despised to work His purposes.
- I’ll instill a divine discontent into the mind of everyone, not by telling them the pettiness of their life, but by giving them a vision of the great things God has called us to do.
- I’ll make it easy for anyone to come to me with the deepest experiences of their inner life, not by urging but by sympathy and understanding. I will never let anyone think I am disappointed in them, remaining at all times accessible to them.
- I’ll keep the cross of Christ central in the Christian life.
- I will pray as I have never prayed before for wisdom and power, believing God’s promise that “if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask, and it shall be given to him” (James1:5)
- I will spend and be spent in this battle. I will not seek ease. I will not think that freshness of face holds beauty in comparison with the glory of heaven. I will seek fellowship with the “man of sorrows…acquainted with grief” (Isa. 53:3) as He walks through this stricken world.
