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Love Forward

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Can a single act of love have global impact? Robert Benson's answer is "yes." In 1968, his life was changed when an ordinary couple took him home from a children's shelter in California. Over the next fifty years, the reverberations reached around the world and changed hundreds more, as Robert sought to help other abused and abandoned children. That is the principle behind Love Forward.In this ... Read more

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Can a single act of love have global impact? Robert Benson's answer is "yes." In 1968, his life was changed when an ordinary couple took him home from a children's shelter in California. Over the next fifty years, the reverberations reached around the world and changed hundreds more, as Robert sought to help other abused and abandoned children. That is the principle behind Love Forward.In this
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The Big Shift

Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife

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Marc Freedman, hailed by theNew York Timesas "the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life," makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are -- an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years.In The Big Shift, Freedman bemoans the fact that the discussion ... Read more

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Marc Freedman, hailed by theNew York Timesas "the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life," makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are -- an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years.In The Big Shift, Freedman bemoans the fact that the discussion
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Once Upon a Town

The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen

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This New York Times bestseller shares the true story of a small Midwest town's hospitality to U.S. soldiers traveling to the battlefields of World War II.In search of "the best America there ever was," award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in Nebraska where he discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons.During World War II, ... Read more

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This New York Times bestseller shares the true story of a small Midwest town's hospitality to U.S. soldiers traveling to the battlefields of World War II.In search of "the best America there ever was," award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in Nebraska where he discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons.During World War II,
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Unlikely Brothers

Our Story of Adventure, Loss, and Redemption

by John Prendergast, Michael Mattocks ...

“You don’t look like brothers . . .”Peace activist and cofounder of the Enough Project, John Prendergast is known as a champion of human rights in Africa.But the not-so-public face of J.P. is the life he’s led as a Big Brother to Michael Mattocks. As a curious, driven, and emotionally wounded twenty-year-old, J.P. made the life-changing decision to form a “Big Brother/Little Brother” relationship ... Read more

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“You don’t look like brothers . . .”Peace activist and cofounder of the Enough Project, John Prendergast is known as a champion of human rights in Africa.But the not-so-public face of J.P. is the life he’s led as a Big Brother to Michael Mattocks. As a curious, driven, and emotionally wounded twenty-year-old, J.P. made the life-changing decision to form a “Big Brother/Little Brother” relationship
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The Cathedral Within

Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back

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Bill Shore has written a wise and inspiring book that shows us how to make the most of life and do something that counts.Like the cathedral builders of an earlier time, the visionaries described in this memoir share a single desire: to create something that endures. The great cathedrals did not soar skyward because their builders discovered new materials or financial resources; rather, the ... Read more

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Bill Shore has written a wise and inspiring book that shows us how to make the most of life and do something that counts.Like the cathedral builders of an earlier time, the visionaries described in this memoir share a single desire: to create something that endures. The great cathedrals did not soar skyward because their builders discovered new materials or financial resources; rather, the
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The Paradoxes of Aid Work

Passionate Professionals

by Silke Roth ...

Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled. 'Aidland' is a highly complex and heterogeneous context which includes many different occupations, forms of employment and organizations. Analysing the processes that lead to the involvement in development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights work and tracing the pathways into and ... Read more

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This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled. 'Aidland' is a highly complex and heterogeneous context which includes many different occupations, forms of employment and organizations. Analysing the processes that lead to the involvement in development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights work and tracing the pathways into and
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Hoping to Help

The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering

by Judith N. Lasker ...

Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to participate in short-term volunteer programs focused on health services. Churches, universities, nonprofit service organizations, profit-making "voluntourism" companies, hospitals, and large corporations all sponsor brief ... Read more

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Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to participate in short-term volunteer programs focused on health services. Churches, universities, nonprofit service organizations, profit-making "voluntourism" companies, hospitals, and large corporations all sponsor brief
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The Truth behind volunteering at Mother Teresa's

by Sally Warner ...

Sally spent five years over a ten year period volunteering in Mother Teresa’s homes especially in India. She met and chatted with hundreds of volunteers, locals, nuns and inmates. Now that adoptions from Mother’s homes have been stopped, 13 homes have been shut down yet Mother Teresa will become a saint on September 4 2016. This book describes a day in the life of a volunteer with in these homes ... Read more

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Sally spent five years over a ten year period volunteering in Mother Teresa’s homes especially in India. She met and chatted with hundreds of volunteers, locals, nuns and inmates. Now that adoptions from Mother’s homes have been stopped, 13 homes have been shut down yet Mother Teresa will become a saint on September 4 2016. This book describes a day in the life of a volunteer with in these homes
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Faith-Rooted Organizing

Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World

by Alexia Salvatierra, Peter Heltzel ...

With so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? Since the 1930s, organizing movements for social justice in the U.S. have largely been built on assumptions that are secular origin—such as reliance on self-interest and having a common enemy as a motivator for change. But what if Christians were to shape their organizing around ... Read more

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With so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? Since the 1930s, organizing movements for social justice in the U.S. have largely been built on assumptions that are secular origin—such as reliance on self-interest and having a common enemy as a motivator for change. But what if Christians were to shape their organizing around
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Will I Make a Difference?

Community Service Through Rotary

by Nancy Eidsvik ...

Author Nancy Eidsvik, MA, was the first woman ever elected to serve as the president of her local Rotary Club, and she undertook this community-based action research study to examine how the Rotary Club of Prince Rupert could best expand its volunteer service to the community. Her research, originally appearing in her masters thesis, provided members of the Rotary Club and the community with the ... Read more

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Author Nancy Eidsvik, MA, was the first woman ever elected to serve as the president of her local Rotary Club, and she undertook this community-based action research study to examine how the Rotary Club of Prince Rupert could best expand its volunteer service to the community. Her research, originally appearing in her masters thesis, provided members of the Rotary Club and the community with the
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Behind the Smiles

An African Odyssey

by Rilly Ray Rajkumar ...

While tourists see the beauty of Kenya, volunteers and medical health professionals often only see the poverty. With half of the countrys forty-three million people living below the poverty line and unable to meet their daily nutritional requirementsnot to mention not having reliable access to healthcare and sanitation facilitiesmany of Kenyas most vulnerable inhabitants are victims to disease and ... Read more

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While tourists see the beauty of Kenya, volunteers and medical health professionals often only see the poverty. With half of the countrys forty-three million people living below the poverty line and unable to meet their daily nutritional requirementsnot to mention not having reliable access to healthcare and sanitation facilitiesmany of Kenyas most vulnerable inhabitants are victims to disease and
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Citadel Values II

Essays for Contemplation

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From the author:When Citadel Values went to press, we began looking for an educational tool to capture the lessons and fortify our students in the greater world beyond the Lesesne Gate. Also, answering prompting calls for a longer book with more essays of comfort and wisdom, we created a publication that has accomplished more than we sought.This book is the result. It reflects my thinking and ... Read more

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From the author:When Citadel Values went to press, we began looking for an educational tool to capture the lessons and fortify our students in the greater world beyond the Lesesne Gate. Also, answering prompting calls for a longer book with more essays of comfort and wisdom, we created a publication that has accomplished more than we sought.This book is the result. It reflects my thinking and
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