how will you measure the worth of your life?

text questions to 469-387-7350

this is jamie

<Wallace Family Photo>

this is sam

Picture of shoes/runner in the blocks

places we’ve worked

<sp> Mabee Student Center </sp>Math tutor

Texas Hydraulics

Deloitte & Touché

places we’ve lived

Belton

Seattle

Dallas

Houston

places we’ve visited

Mexico

Breckenridge

(for the fishing)

Napa Valley

(for the grape juice)

Washington D.C.

Boston

San Francisco

New York

Los Angeles

Spain

Peru

Chile

Vienna

Ireland

but the best trip

(by a country mile)

ethiopia

<insert picture of food>

<insert picture of coffee>

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Are we willing?

2.5 Billion

Source: World Bank, Chen and Ravallion (2004)

40% of humanity

Source: World Bank, Chen and Ravallion (2004)

Who is responsible?

“Pure and undefiled religion is to look after orphans and widows in their distress.”

James 1:27

60 times

Bono

Sachs

Where is our hope?

<picture obama>

Or what laws are passed

Or what great things we do as a nation

Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people

Hope is more than feeling bad and wishing things were different

9 months

200 Bloggers reaching ~20,000 people

$500,000

<Out of the blocks>

11,568 meals

Microgiving for the world’s poor

<insert picture of orphans or lepracy>

$10

How?

6 Lessons

1

play to your strengths

2

you can’t do it alone

alone

<insert picture of fishing with tom, daniel, etc.>

3

great plans with open hands

you should plan

write down the details

held too tightly

and reassembled

remember it’s not your plan

4

consumerism is a lie

The only reason a great many American families don’t own an

elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for

a dollar down and

easy weekly payments. - Mad Magazine

<insert picture money burning>

5

Be known for what you’re for not what you’re against

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6

start before you’re ready

When it first became clear thirty years ago that working-life expectancies were lengthening very fast, many observers (including myself) believed retired people would increasingly become volunteers

for American non-profit institutions. This has not happened. If one does not begin to volunteer before one is forty or so, one will not volunteer when past sixty.

– Peter Drucker, The Essential Drucker

How will you measure the worth of your life?

your life > your day job

your life > your stuff

your life can be more than you ever imagined

I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse….

Deuteronomy 30: 19-20

Therefore choose life,

that you and your offspring may live, loving

the LORD your God, obeying his voice and

holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days

Deuteronomy 30: 19-20

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