Dinner

My team had dinner tonight with one of our senior executives. The particular leader we met is one that I've met with before and a guy I've been continually impressed with. Russ is a Christian who has done amazing things in the world with what he has. Russ went to Romania with a missionary group about 15 years ago and was taken aback by the number of orphans on the street. Russ and his group of friends started by trying to find families for the orphans, and then began to look at the systemic issues that created the orphans. They leveraged their consulting and entrepreneurial abilities to create a manufacturing company that made bricks and a sister company to build houses from those bricks, both of whom would employ the parents that were putting the children on the streets. They went from hundreds of orphans at five orphanages in this particular area, to a single orphanage with only 21 kids.

I love working in a company where people use their abilities for Xerox and for the Kingdom of God.