Recently our staff held a seminar about the character
attributes we hope to portray in our lives and in our positions we have at New
Day. We want to serve with patience, be unified as a whole, encourage with life
giving words, and lead with vision and humility. The 25 character points that
we are learning more about are vision, humility, attitude, excellence,
innovation, caring, unity, safety, respect, encourage, no gossip, personal
health, being adaptable, life-giving, hope, serving, being uncritical, self
awareness, testimony, owning the problem, same heart, patience, responsibility,
veracity, being equipped.
As much as we desire these character traits for ourselves,
we want them for our children as well. We want each one of our children to grow
up knowing what it means to love, serve, and lead. We see some of these traits starting
to sprout in them already! We hope that they see all of these traits in us so
that they too want to adopt them for themselves. We can never be too caring,
too loving, too encouraging, too patient, too responsible, or too humble. We
should always be working towards a heart that is so tender.
We want to encourage our children here to dream big, work hard, and never stop
caring for those around them. We hope that their incredibly wonderful stories
of restoration will always remind them to do the same for others, to rescue and
to love.
We put a humility wristband on Cooper and
he was curious to know what it was. We’re excited to get to teach him about
what it means to be filled with humility and watch him grow into a man who is
humble and kind. We love teaching and learning from our children!!