Thursday, February 11, 2010
encouragement
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” Thessalonians 5:11
This is the verse that we build our home around at Alverta Bolick. We intentionally build one another up, encourage one another, and speak praises with our lips. It is refreshing to be in an environment where everyone is accepted and encouraged in who they are and the gifts that God has given them. We have an “encouragement chair” and you never know who is going to be in the hot seat. The boys will go around and speak encouragement to the person in the chair, but it doesn’t stop there… it happens at meal times, on the gym floor, playing video games, in church…
To often we hear what we are not, but we encourage the guys to speak into each other’s lives of “who they are.” Just for the record: God thinks they are special and so do I !