(Also see: Service)
 

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Gum Wrapper - Choose this day whom we will serve
Handout Ideas on Service
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Deseret Book
"I'm giving the lesson on service today and was searching for something to just hit me and I found this beautiful article in the June1982 New Era --"Tasting the Sweetness of Service". It talks about different stakes and wards in the Salt Lake Valley doing different acts of service. What great ideas and what a sweet spirit of service! At the very end it gives a darling idea--one ward kept track of their service with a jelly bean jar, for each act of service they had done they put a jelly bean in the jar. At the end they chose a special and presented the jar to them. I think this would even work as an activity, you could start with a service project and then end with a small talk or even just an explanation of the jelly bean jar and have it available to them each Sunday. I'm going to be challenging my class to one activity a month being a service project and then challenge them to do service on their own, so that we can fill our jar." (Idea by Jill)
Lesson Helps from Debanae
Lesson Helps from Jenny Smith
Lesson Helps from Young Women Connection
Pratt's Service Lesson Helps
Why do we serve??



May I Serve Thee? March 2004, Ensign



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Last week, a young man in our ward spoke in sacrament meeting on service.  As he gave his talk, he removed his jacket, loosened his tie and took it off, started unbuttoning his shirt, took off his belt, and took off his shoes.  All the while he just gave his talk without any mention of what he was doing until the very end, and then he said, "You probably won't remember a word I said by the time you get home, but you will never forget what I did.  Actions speak louder than words." (Credit Unknown -  you could use this same idea when teaching your lesson.)



One Liners
Quick Quotes
 

Make Me A Spoon (Anonymous)

No Hands But Ours
Parable of the Spoon
The starfish (Can be applied to service)

Jeffrey R. Holland, “Called to Serve,” Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2002, 36. Consider adding some of the stories of faithful women from the article as examples of service.

Mary Ellen Smoot, “We Are Instruments in the Hands of God,” Liahona, Jan. 2001, 104; Ensign, Nov. 2000, 89. Add Sister Smoot’s counsel on being instruments in the lesson section “Introduction: The Lord’s Tools.”