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Antonio, why do you dowhat you do?
AB:
I’m passionate about helpingpeople who suer. I’m passionateabout meeting the needs o thepoorest o the poor. And I’mpassionate about helping to makeHOPE
worldwide
more eectivehere at home than it’s ever been.It’s also my personal mission togive everyone in the HOPE
worldwide
North Americanamily the opportunity to serve the poor.
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And what are some o the practical resultso your passion or people in need?
AB:
We’ve gone rom 43 subsidiaries and branches to 100Chapters in the United States, Canada and the Caribbeanin two years. Our response to the needs o people ollowingHurricane Katrina showed we are capable o providingeective immediate and long-term disaster assistance.And each year on Martin Luther King Day, we mobilizethousands o volunteers to go into our nation’s inner citiesto clean streets, educate amilies onhealth issues, reurbish houses andprovide encouragement to the poorin our midst.
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How are we preparingour young people or acts oservice now and in the yearsto come?
AB:
Tis is a major emphasis orus. Our National Youth Advisory Council (NYAC) is comprised o 15 outstanding highschool and college students representing six regionsacross the U.S. I see this group and the thousands o young people they represent serving as the emergingleaders in building our domestic community serviceprograms. Tese young men and women are the uturegeneration o service leaders that are already changingthe world. Our Campus Ministry Conerence Daysservice days have seen 1,700, 2,200 and 1,100 studentsactively involved in New Orleans, Chicago and Athens.
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ISSUE 19 WWW.HOPEWW.ORG
BRINGING HOPE. CHANGING LIVES.
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“To show great love or God and our neighborwe need not do great things. It is how muchlove we put in the doing that makes our oeringsomething beautiul or God.”
–Mother Teresa 
We recently talked with Antonio Boyd, HOPE
worldwide
CommunityService Division Leader. His passion or organizing volunteers toserve the poor is refected in his answers to our questions regarding increasing volunteerism in North America.
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 Antonio Boyd, Community Service DivisionLeader, and his wie Audrey.
A teen’s commitment to serving the poor through HOPE
worldwide 
“I I had to choose one event that changed my perspective it would be becoming aChristian and learning about God’s grace or my lie. Later, when I became a membero HOPE
worldwide’s
National Youth Advisory Council, I began to see more and morethe value not only o believing
but o putting my aith into action
.”
His name is Maurice Harried. Bullied and harassed in middle school, he now maintainsa 3.9 GPA, while serving as a Student Commissioner or the City o Baltimore and is onHOPE
worldwide’s
National Youth Advisory Council (NYAC). With a mother who abuseddrugs and a ather who spent time behind bars, this young man chose a better way to live.Read about Maurice’s amazing journey at
www.hopeww.org/Maurice
 
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THE BOSTON CHAPTER REACHES OUT TONEIGHBORS IN NEED
We don’t have the words to express our gratitudeor the tremendous eort being made by the more than37,000 North American volunteers who make a continualcommitment to serve the poor. Tey serve rom Hawaii toHaiti, rom Los Angeles to Philadelphia, and rom orontoto Houston—and more than 100 cities in between.One example is the Boston Chapter o HOPE
worldwide
 which provides hope and help though the compassionatework o its volunteers:
• Hundreds participate in a variety of fundraising
events to support the Framingham Food Pantry and other local volunteer eorts.
• Volunteers partner with
Rebuilding Together 
toassist the elderly and handicapped with basichome repairs.
• On MLK Day 2011, 520 volunteers distributed
re prevention inormation to 43,500 homes.
• Many volunteers have also participated
in the newly ormed Community ServiceBrigades which provide health care services toimprovished communities in Central America.Tese volunteers know there’s no better exercise or theheart than reaching down and picking someone else up.
EMPOWERING A GENERATION: THE POWEROF SATURDAY ACADEMY
Volunteers working through Chapters o HOPE
worldwide
continue to create an environmentor lie-changing experiences in the lives o at-risk youth.Saturday Academy programs introduce students tocaring adults who dedicate Saturday mornings to helpingyoung people achieve victories in learning rather thanrustration. Te program goals include:
• Building character by instilling positive life
lessons
• Motivating and inspiring learning and success
by developing and reinorcing basic academicskills
• Developing a knowledge base of dierent
disciplines through sports, the arts and varioustypes o enrichment activitiesIt’s conventional wisdom to say a pessimist sees theglass o water as hal empty, and the optimist sees thesame glass as hal ull. But a caring volunteer withHOPE
worldwide
sees a glass o water and immediately begins looking or someone who is thirsty.
RESPONDING AND REBUILDING AFTERDISASTER
Since September 2005, over 7,500 volunteers, havebeen able to serve an average o 1,600 hours each monththrough the Gul Coast Chapter. Tese volunteers havegutted over 2,600 homes along the Gul Coast, savinghomeowners nearly $52 million and restoring more than50 houses so amilies could return.Volunteers who have assisted victims o res,earthquakes, tornados and hurricanes oen have similarrefections on their acts o service:
“I’m on the scenebecause this is where God wants me to be.” “I volunteer because it’s who I am.” “By sharing mysel with people inneed I’m becoming the person God designed me to be.” 
Hopeully, the volunteer stories ofered in thisnewsletter encourage your spirit and inspire you toconsider how you can use your talents to reach out tohelp a neighbor in need.
Volunteerism at its best is serving God and helping those in need though compassionate acts of service
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 V a n e  s  s  aE  m b  l    i   n  g P  h  o t   o  g  r  a  p  h   y  V a n e  s  s  aE  m b  l    i   n  g P  h  o t   o  g  r  a  p  h   y 
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 Boston Chapter volunteer, Dr. Jon Drake, with Florinda.Through his service with the Community Service Brigade, shereceived the urgent care needed to diagnose and treat herdiabetes. Watch their story at www.hopeww.org/forinda
 
1. Saturday Academy provides a un and sae place or children to learn andgrow.2. Volunteers on the scene to help amilies aected by tornadoes earlier this year.They are standing ready to respond to this year’s hurricane season.3. Boston’s creative undraisers make local and international volunteer outreachpossible. Shown here (l-r) Anne and Ken Lowey, Chapter Directors; DebbieDrake, Program Director; Lori and Walter Kotkowski, Community ServiceBrigades Directors.4. Young volunteers encourage others to honor God through kindness to theneedy.
Help the needy in a special way, considerbecoming a HOPE
worldwide 
Community Service Fellow.
Community Service Fellows are on the ront line o helping to break the cycle o poverty among the neediest in our nation. Volunteersreceive a living stipend as well as an education award upon completiono their service.o learn more, visit www.hopeww.org.
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Antonio, I know you also have some late, breakingnews...
AB:
Yes, indeed. We’ve been working with Canada and the Caribbeanto build the same inrastructure in their countries as we have in theUnited States. Te good news is the 12 churches in Canada havedecided to add HOPE
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to their 2020 Vision plans and arenow ready to appoint chapter directors in each city. Te Caribbeanwill soon ollow as Will Archer and Peter Swaby coordinate thateort. God is moving and the word is spreading. Every committedChristian will soon have the opportunity to serve the poor througha HOPE
worldwide
Chapter in North America.
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What fnal word do you have or the reader o thisnewsletter?
 
AB:
I encourage you to stay tuned or your next opportunity to reachout to people in need. Log on to
www.hopeww.org/chapters
to locatea program near you. Dig deep within and discover your own heart orservice to the poor, and then act on that passion wherever you see aneed arise. You never know,
but your next act of service might beginwith reaching out to your next door neighbor 
. And please pray or thethousands o amilies, children and seniors within our own borderswho need God’s love and a human touch. ogether let’s continue toprovide hope to the poor…and see lives transormed.
Conversation with Antonio Boyd 
 
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