Service as a family value
Service turns a family's values outward into action: volunteering together, helping neighbors, leaving places better than you found them. It is one of the best values for families with kids, because the whole household can do it together and see the difference.
Family mottos about service
- Serve others
- Lend a hand
- Leave it better
- Not for ourselves alone
- Lend a hand. Stay curious.
- Lend a hand. Keep learning. Choose wisely.
- Service and creativity
Latin mottos with service
In Latin, service is Ministerium; “by” or “with service” is Ministerio. Paired with another value it makes a classic two-word motto.
- Non Nobis Solum
- Not for ourselves alone
- Ministerio et Studio
- By service and eagerness to learn
- Ministerio et Doctrina
- By service and learning
- Ministerio et Sapientia
- By service and wisdom
- Ministerio et Ingenio
- By service and creativity
- Ministerio et Fidelitate
- By service and faithfulness
- Ministerio et Clementia
- By service and mercy
- Ministerio et Liberalitate
- By service and generosity
Creed lines about service
Classic (timeless and formal)
We serve others as we would be served.
We leave every place better than we found it.
We give our time and talents to those in need.
Warm (heartfelt and plain-spoken)
We look for ways to help.
We volunteer together and show up for our neighbors.
We leave things better than we found them.
Playful (funny, but still true)
We bring casseroles. So many casseroles.
We shovel the neighbors' snow and carry their couches.
We are the family that brings extra chairs.
A sample creed built around service
This is what the generator writes for a family whose answers put service first, in the classic tone. Your family's own answers will change the lines, and you can edit every one.
We hold these things to be true:
We serve others as we would be served.
We are students of the world for all our days.
We read, we ask, we think, and we grow wise together.
This is our way.
Service in heraldry
Azure (blue) is the color most often tied to service: traditionally truth and loyalty. Symbols that suit it:
Talk about it at the table
- Who in our neighborhood could use help?
- What is a cause our whole family cares about?
- How did it feel the last time you helped someone without being asked?