Quotes About Outreach

One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives.

If all the Christians- I mean all of 'em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we'd shut the city down. We'd shut down hunger. We'd shut down loneliness. We'd shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don't deserve a kind word and a second chance.

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Do not be afraid to go and to bring Christ into every area of life, to the fringes of society, even to those who seem farthest away, most indifferent.

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

The institutionalizing of the church is essentially its immunization to an evangelistic impulse.

The passion of the church and every follower of Christ should be that all peoples have an opportunity to hear, understand, and respond to the gospel.

A disciple who grows spiritually will have a growing desire to be a witness and reach out to those who are lost.

Being missional means moving intentionally beyond our church preferences, making missional decisions rather than preferential decisions.

Every church and believer must ask: What are we known for in the community? What do we represent?

No longer representative of the dominant culture, Christians need to rethink the way we understand cultural engagement, mission, and evangelism in a newly post-Christian society.

Come over into Macedonia, and help us.

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Astrobiology is a great point of contact for science outreach. The public is naturally interested in extra-terrestrial life. Astrobiology provides an accessible point of access that leads to deeper questions.

The Health Center Cluster program helps communities all over the country by providing assistance to health centers and clinics.

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

I think social media brings another dynamic to running for office so publicly.

In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.

I sometimes wonder if I pushed myself to get out there and meet people I'd get more work.