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MOTHER TERESAIN HER OWN WORDSDo not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made or how many great things we have done. We will be judged by I was hungry and you gave me to eat. I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless and you took me in.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.Where she helped 1982 siege of Beirut1985 - Ethopia1986 - Chernobyl1988 - Armenia

SAM CHILDERS

LIFE STORYBorn to decent parents but became a trouble maker in an early ageWas selling hard drugs and sleeping with married womenLed a life of violence Later became a changed man ,kept himself away from drugs and alcohol.Started his own construction business and he prospered.Inspired by a missionary , went to sudan to help repair damaged huts.During this assignment Sam stumbled across the body of a child torn apart by a landmine. He fell to his knees and made a pledge to God to do whatever it took to help the people of Southern SudanSam returned to Sudan several months later to run a mobile clinic.Later he started building an orphanage for the children.At the time, the Lords Resistance Army, a brutal rebel militia that had kidnapped 30 thousand children and murdered hundreds of thousands of villagers & was laying waste to the area. He returned to the U.S.A, sold his construction business and sent the money to Africa.With the orphanage finished, Sam began to lead armed missions to rescue children from the LRA. It wasnt long before tales of his exploits spread and villagers began to call him The Machine Gun Preacher.

13 years later the orphanage is the largest in Southern Sudan and has fed and housed over 1,000 children. Today, more than 200 children call the orphanage home.