K-Kids can provide opportunities for students to discover their desire to serve. When students discover their heart 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 convictions, and develop their ability to empathize with those in need in their communities.

What does having a desire to serve look like? You’ll notice 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.