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If you can't feed a hundred people?

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. --Mother Teresa

Don't Wait For Leaders

Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person. --Mother Teresa

I Am a Little Pencil

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. --Mother Teresa

Astronaut on Servanthood

As I was returning to earth, I realized that I was a servant-- not a celebrity. So I am here as God's servant on planet Earth to share what I have experienced that others might know the glory of God. (Astronaut James Irwin)

Trading a Car for a Life

What would you do if you had $6 million? Zell Kravinsky decided to give it away. The forty-eight-year-old recently gave the largest donation that's ever been received from an individual by the Centers for Disease Control: $6.2 million. The money will be used to try to eliminate Chagas disease, which kills over 50,000 people each year in Central and South America. He could have bought luxury cars and flaunted his wealth. Why did he instead give it away? According to Kravinsky, ?I?m making a choice between my kids having a car in college, and a kid in Guatemala having a life. We?ve discussed it with our kids, and they are 100 percent behind it.? This makes perfect sense to a person who thinks of others more than himself. (Written by Steve Miller. Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution, by M.A.J. McKenna, October 9, 2002, 1st page)

Needy People Wherever You Turn

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. -- Albert Schweitzer

Jimmy Carter, The Heart of a Peacemaker

The heart of a Peacemaker Former President Jimmy Carter How does a small town farm boy become one of the greatest peace makers today? When he became President, Jimmy Carter aspired to make government "competent and compassionate," responsive to the American people and their expectations. His Presidency was caught up with domestic issues, such as joblessness and inflation. Despite the turmoil in America at the time, Carter had some major peacekeeping victories: In 1978 Carter did bring Egypt and Israel to a peace treaty at Camp David. Building upon Nixon's foundation, he forged a better relationship with the People's Republic of China. Negotiations were completed with the Soviet Union to complete the SALT II nuclear limitation treaty. Each of these events were seeds of the future work Carter would accomplish AFTER his presidency. For the past 20 years, after founding of the Carter Center in Atlanta, Jimmy has promoted an international agenda of peace, human rights, conflict resolution, democracy and economic development and fought against poverty, hunger and disease throughout the world. His life work of peacekeeping did not go unnoticed. In a surprise decision on October 11, 2002, the Nobel Committee awarded Carter the 2002 Nobel Prize for Peace. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Carter said, "I am delighted, humbled and very grateful that the Nobel committee has given me this recognition. I share this prize with everyone at the Carter Center. The last 20 years have been the most gratifying of all." Jimmy Carter lived according to a life motto that says "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles." A deacon and a Sunday school teacher at the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains, Carter holds fast to the unchanging principles of the Word of God to live his life and to bring peace to the suffering people of the world. In a speech accepting the Nobel, Carter said, "This honor serves as an inspiration not only to us, but also to suffering people around the world. I accept it on their behalf." (Written by Cherie Miller)

Elvis, Pleasing or Serving?

Elvis, Pleasing or Serving? Joy, Service You'd have thought that Elvis Presley had it all. He was called "The King" by millions of adoring fans, had tons of money, girls, and friends to help him with every aspect of his life. But inside, he was often empty and miserable. Why? His stepbrother and closest friend, Rick Stanley, observes that Elvis "was brought up to find his fulfillment in pleasing others. Not in serving them, but pleasing them. There is a difference. People who are motivated to please others rarely have their need to love and be loved met. Their lifelong search for that kind of fulfillment is often tragically unsuccessful." (Rick Stanley, Caught in a Trap: Elvis Presley's Tragic Lifelong Search for Love, Word Publishing, Dallas, 1992, p. 21) How tragic! Remember, we're not out to please everyone, but to serve them. There's a huge difference.

Don't Weary of the Little Things

Don't Weary of the Little Things Service, Love We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. -- Brother Lawrence

Portman on Service

"Service helps orient you and it helps you grow because you get a better idea of what the world around you is like. . . I think the apathy a lot of young people are feeling has to do with finding meaning in their lives." (Actress Natalie Portman, Seventeen, September 2004, p. 188)

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