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You Can't Do EVERYthing ... So Do SOMEthing: Small Ways to Change the World
The real need for our world is not that we do EVERYONE'S part; just that we do OUR part. And with all of us working together, we will transform the world.
Shane Stanford “On my office wall is a picture of a small child who lives in a remote village in sub-Saharan Africa. She is an orphan, having lost most of her family to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Each day, the little girl eats only half of her meager lunch. She takes the other half and puts it into her travel sack, so that she can take the leftovers to her dying aunt. The world might look at this child and assess that her little life has little to offer. But don’t tell the child’s aunt. Without this child’s sacrifice and maturity, her aunt would have no food and would die. In spite of this child not being able to do much for her dying aunt, she does something, every day. The real need for our world is not that we do every part; it’s that we just do our part. And working together to do that something God calls us to do--all of us working together--we will transform this world.”
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Shane Stanford “On my office wall is a picture of a small child who lives in a remote village in sub-Saharan Africa. She is an orphan, having lost most of her family to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Each day, the little girl eats only half of her meager lunch. She takes the other half and puts it into her travel sack, so that she can take the leftovers to her dying aunt. The world might look at this child and assess that her little life has little to offer. But don’t tell the child’s aunt. Without this child’s sacrifice and maturity, her aunt would have no food and would die. In spite of this child not being able to do much for her dying aunt, she does something, every day. The real need for our world is not that we do every part; it’s that we just do our part. And working together to do that something God calls us to do--all of us working together--we will transform this world.”
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102 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2010
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October 24, 2012
This is a great book to help you help you get beyond the overwhelming nature of the world's problems in order to help you do what you can. Shane does a great job encouraging you to do what you can and change the world for the better, one small act at a time. A great read!
October 18, 2011
This is one of those books that you want to read again in order to continue to glean the wisdom held within.
November 19, 2013
Excellent. You will be blessed.
April 24, 2014
A short book (with study guide) full of narratives of people who have done something with the gifts they have to further the Kingdom.
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