Serve

Builders Club can provide opportunities for students to discover their desire to serve. When students discover their desire to serve, they decide that serving others is a new, exciting way of life. The service club experience at a young age can help students accept their own ability to make a difference, enhance their knowledge of their own passions and conventions, and develop their ability to empathize with those in need in their communities.

What does having the desire to serve look like? You’ll notice that members:

• Show more care and compassion for each other.
• Identify needs in their school and community with less prompting.
• Can better express their beliefs and ideas about how they want to help others.
• Can discuss their service projects in greater depth and insight.
• Identify themselves as the ones who can make a difference.

How can you support this discovery?

• Ensure that community service remains the clubs main focus.
• Facilitate conversations before and after service projects to help students express their emotions and insights.
• Pay attention to members who identify a passion and help them find resources to investigate this further.
• Introduce the club to community charities and cause-related organizations.
• Make sure the club’s choices for projects and service initiatives are student led. Share sample service and fundraising ideas to get them excited.