Last Friday night I was watching the NBC Nightly News with my friend Jim Newberry. At the end of the program they did a short but very rich story on a guy named Bill Austin. Bill has given out more than 200,000 hearing aids to people all over the world… He seems like a very cool guy and the story is incredibly inspiring and deeply moving.

Check out the article and video here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18096548/

Perhaps you might find a way to merge this with your upcoming teaching to your students regarding compassion and justice. Actually, this story can fit into a lot of different teaching themes — calling, missional living, sacrifice, restoration, hope, etc…