Bøger af Mike Seymour

Through courage, wisdom and unshakable faith in God, a peace-maker from Burundi, Central Africa, helped change the course of his nation at a time of horrific ethnic violence between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups in 1993-1994. Prosper Ndabishuriye's story of standing in front of guns to protect his team members is deeply moving and inspiring. A National Director of Campus Crusade for Christ, Prosper and youth he recruited devised an ingenious strategy by forming teams of men from all ethnic groups to help warring Hutu and Tutsi villagers return to their lands, forgive one another and find peace as they were helped to rebuild their homes. Since 1993, Prosper's organization-Youth in Reconstruction of the World in Destruction, or www.jrmd.org) has built over 3,200 homes for Burundians displaced by the war. This story recounts his partnership with author Mike Seymour and their AfricaAmericaExchange educational project connecting American and Burundian youth around themes of peace, compassion and making the world a better place. Prosper's most recent project is a school and orphanage. www.jrmd.org

How could a nice little boy like I was at five turn into such a disappointment to all who saw in me something much bigger than the continued failure I proved to be as I careened through school expulsions, job firings, drugs, divorces and terrifying encounters with a leveling, ancient fear that finally made a spiritual warrior out of me? Much as I wanted to conform to the upper middle-class mold I was born into, a curious, intuitive, sensitive, philosophical and above all rebellious nature blew that traditional path out from under me. The Christ nature in me hates falsehood and mediocracy. Saved from more crashing and burning by a born-again awakening, my call to Christ took turns through native American dream journeying, process-oriented psychology, Buddhist meditation retreats, communion with nature, creative writing pursuits, social and environmental activism, landing finally with life-changing experiences of non-dual reality, oneness with God. What do I know? Nothing in life is wasted. Mistakes are learning opportunities. And there is no "Mike" as I used to think of myself--only Christ.

This book makes appeals to the world to revisit educational purpose in regards to social justice, and looks at testing, school choice and privatization.