Don't wait - help needed!
As I get older, one of the common things I hear from friends and colleagues is "when I retire, I'll spend time doing charity work", and it's great to see so many people planning to put their time to helping the under-privileged. In fact, many friends don't even wait for retirement - they already get themselves regularly involved in social work. When my wife and I were young parents, we decided we would try to let our kids, and indeed ourselves, see that age and timing were not reasons to delay helping others. We went on our first family mission trip when our kids were just 1 and 3, still in diapers and a pram! I remember our teammates were mostly younger than we were, not yet married and with no kids, and one of them told us, I never thought it would be possible to go on a mission trip with infants, but you guys showed me it could be done. Thanks! Those encouraging words inspired me to continue bringing the kids with us on subsequent mission trips, kno...