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A Devotion to Serve column for armorbearers, ministry support and volunteers
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra" --Unknown
"With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God." Mark 10:27
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, the daughter of an Albanian grocer, Mother Teresa was sent to India at 18. After years as a teacher and then principal of a high school, she received a "call within a call" during a train ride, in which she felt God directing her to the slums. By the end of her life, she and the more than 3,000 sisters who followed her were operating a worldwide network of some 350 missions. Said a fellow nun: "Mother is very ordinary. When people meet her, they are so surprised by her ordinariness. But she allows God to work through her, and he has done extraordinary things."
- 1910 Born in Skopje, Yugoslavia
- 1928 Arrived in India as a young nun
- 1950 Founded the Missionaries of Charity order in Calcutta
- 1979 Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1997 Died in Calcutta
Read the Bible book Mark afresh this month. Accomplish the impossible in your life with God. All things are possible to him who believes said Jesus in Mark 9:23.
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