Disrupting for Good: Using Passion and Persistence to Create Lasting Change - Softcover

Field, Chris

 
9781684260010: Disrupting for Good: Using Passion and Persistence to Create Lasting Change
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1684260019 ISBN 13: 9781684260010
Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press, 2018

Synopsis

What does it mean to live fully, abundantly, and with abandon? Disrupting for Good shares powerful stories you ve never heard about people like you who are taking on the challenges around them and reshaping lives. From a preschool teacher creating a cross generational program with a nearby nursing home to a young girl cleaning up the trash in her neighborhood, these stories proclaim the truth: anyone can make positive change.Our world is in desperate need of people who talk less and do more. Change in our own lives and those around us begins when we ask good questions and then dream, dare, and do. In this book, Chris will show you how to become a disruptor who cannonballs off the cliffs of complacency and changes the world around you. Great adventures await all of us. Are you ready?

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About the Author

Chris Field has been disrupting since he ran for mayor at age nineteen. He has jumped out of airplanes, earned two degrees in ministry from Abilene Christian University, directed a camp for inner-city kids, completed more than twenty marathons, set multiple Guinness World Records, raised millions for charity, and spoken to thousands of young people about changing the world. His greatest passion is the non profit he started in Ghana, Africa, to rescue child slaves out of the fishing industry. He and his wife, Stacey, have four awesome kids who remind them every day what matters the most.

From the Back Cover

What does it mean to live fully, abundantly, and with abandon? Disrupting for Good shares powerful stories you've never heard about people like you who are taking on the challenges around them and reshaping lives. From a preschool teacher creating a cross generational program with a nearby nursing home to a young girl cleaning up the trash in her neighborhood, these stories proclaim the truth: anyone can make positive change. Our world is in desperate need of people who talk less and do more. Change in our own lives and those around us begins when we ask good questions and then dream, dare, and do. In this book, Chris will show you how to become a disruptor who cannonballs off the cliffs of complacency and changes the world around you. Great adventures await all of us. Are you ready?

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Publisher
Abilene Christian University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1684260019
ISBN 13 
9781684260010
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
144