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Jesus said in Mark 12:31, “The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (2).

Early in my ministry one of my mentors explained Jesus’ words as simply finding a need and meeting it.

Part of your ministry must be servant-hood. Jesus came as a servant. We are to imitate Jesus; therefore, we are to be servants; thus, we are to find needs and meet them.

Practicum would be teaching our students this and, more importantly, modeling before them how to live daily lives of finding and meeting needs. The fun part of this is the creativity that students can unleash on meeting the needs of those around them.

I live and serve in Ohio, which is obviously a land locked state. However, Hurricane Ike made it to Preble County. Trees were down, power was off, and schools were closed. On Monday and Tuesday my two sons and I spent the days going from church family to church family checking on them and cutting up trees and hauling away the wood and brush.

On Wednesday, instead of holding our regular youth meeting, we put out the word that we would be taking the church vans to Brother and Sister Bush’s to cut up some fallen trees. This was before texting and Face Book, so we had to rely on e-mail and phone calls. I knew we would have fewer students than if we had just had youth group; surprisingly, we still had over twenty students and adults show up. We travelled to the Bush’s house, served them a hot meal, cut and cleared the downed trees, ate fresh-from-the-oven brownies, and ended the evening by having students pray over this dearly loved elderly couple. Ike created the opportunity, and our students met the need.