What I’ve been realizing lately is that love is a VERB. Love is more than a feeling, it is an action—it is going beyond yourself to do something for others. It is sacrificial. It requires something of you…

Love is playing with kids in the poorest communities of Jakarta…

Love is serving as part of the medical team in the slums of Jakarta…

Love is working on a nutrition program for kids who live in a trash dump community…

Love is volunteering every week to play futsal with street kids…

Love can even be taking the ice bucket challenge to raise awareness of ALS….

Love isn’t just something that involves feelings and roses—because love is doing something beyond yourself. As I reflect on the people I work with here in Jakarta, I am constantly amazed at how they really do treat love as a verb. I am honored to be serving with them side by side.