Provide and Serve - Family Proclamation Lesson 9

The Family:  A Proclamation to the World

Lesson 9 – Provide & Serve

Excerpt:

“Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, and to teach them to love and serve one another.”

Objectives:

-Parents are to Provide for their Children both Physically and Spiritually

-Families are to love and serve one another & neighbors

-The best way to teach and serve is to be a Positive Example

Song:

          Primary#236 - "Give" Said the Little Stream

          General#223 - Have I Done Any Good?

Activity:

Act out the story of the Good Samaritan or plan and complete a Service Activity

Scripture Suggestions:  
        Provide Physically:

   1 Timothy 5:8

   D & C 42:42

   D & C 75:28

Provide Spiritually (Teach):

   Proverbs 22:6

   Ephesians 6:4

   Alma 56:47, 57:21

   D & C 68: 25-30

   Moses 6:55-62

Love and Serve:

   Matthew 4:23, 22:35-39

   Mark 6:6

   John 13:34-35, 15:13

   Acts 10:38

   1 Corinthians 13:4-7

   Mosiah 2:17 

   Moroni 7:45, 47, 8:17

             Ether 12:33-34

Quote:

“The reason charity never fails and the reason charity is greater than even the most significant acts of goodness he cited is that charity, “the pure love of Christ” is not an act but a condition or state of being. Charity is attained through a succession of acts that result in a conversion. Charity is something one becomes.”

 (Dallin H. Oaks, “The Challenge to Become,” New Era, Aug 2002, 12)

Conference Talk:

          Your Eternal Home –President Monson