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Volunteers Needed

by admin on May 24, 2012 in Daily, Volunteers

Volunteer Positions Needed as of May 2012:

The descriptions will give you a broad view of what is needed in each role. If you are interested in a volunteer position please contact Leslie Kuhlman.

Communications Leader – responsible for organizational communication pieces

Auto Responder Leader – responsible for communication through SalesForce.com

Social Media Leader – responsible for maintaining a blog, facebook, twitter, and other social media communications

Production Leader – responsible for filmed production piece oversight start to finish

Prospect Leader – responsible for identifying opportunities for partnership and VIP EOAs http://www.childrenoffallensoldiers.org/expression-of-appreciation/

Media and PR Leader – responsible for building relationships with local, regional, and national media

Event Team Leader – responsible for creating EOA processing teams, fundraisers teams, and event participation teams.

Operation Leader – responsible for building an operations team

Acquisition Leader – responsible for collecting donations and support for office supplies, event products and materials, equipment, etc

Ambassadors – responsible for EOA collection in your community, within your organization and/or place of employment, at your church, etc. This can be as large or small of a commitment as you are able to make and we will help you make it simple. Learn more: http://www.childrenoffallensoldiers.org/be-an-ambassador/

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Care for His Widow and His Orphan

by Chaplain Timothy "TIG" Heaslet on April 6, 2012 in Daily

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. 1989.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address

Saturday, March 4, 1865

Weeks of wet weather preceding Lincoln’s second inauguration had caused Pennsylvania Avenue to become a sea of mud and standing water. Thousands of spectators stood in thick mud at the Capitol grounds to hear the President. As he stood on the East Portico to take the executive oath, the completed Capitol dome over the President’s head was a physical reminder of the resolve of his Administration throughout the years of civil war. Chief Justice Salmon Chase administered the oath of office. In little more than a month, the President would be assassinated.

Fellow-Countrymen:AT this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the causeof the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

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Inspiration

by Chaplain Timothy "TIG" Heaslet on March 5, 2012 in Daily, Inspiration

Our inspiration for the day is Kyle Maynard. He’s climbed Kilimanjaro, an MMA competitor, wrestler, author, speaker, business owner, and I’m sure there’s so much more I haven’t learned yet. Read his story and be inspired to go over, around or destroy any dream barriers today.

Thank You Kyle for choosing to inspire! Keep changing the world… You Are Awesome