Seniors Investing in Seniors

May 11
Chatting with a friend about upcoming events I explained that I had a senior banquet to attend. Living in a resort/retirement community I immediately realized she thought she was missing out on a local event.  "High school seniors", I explained, "at the private Christian school where my husband is the Head Master."

Maybe a new ministry has just become planted in my brain...Seniors Investing in Seniors!  What an emotional year the senior year is, whether it be high school or college.  It is a jumping off point into the unknown of new experiences.  (Hmmm...becoming a senior adult, facing retirement, dealing with the declines of aging can be emotional as well.)  How meaningful it would be to have a mentor who would listen and pray to the concerns that crop up that senior year.

Ask God to place a senior on your heart to encourage. It could be as simple as going for an ice cream cone together, but consider an actual face to face encounter.  Sometimes the simplest things we do make a life long impact.

You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 

Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, 

 and sound in faith,  in love and in endurance.

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.  Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,  to be self-controlled  and pure, 

to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands,

so that no one will malign the word of God.

Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.  In everything set them an example by doing what is good.  In your teaching show integrity, seriousness  and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.

Titus 2:1-8