*ATTENTION – GETTER : Imagine you are a small child lying on the dirt road of Calcutta, India. You are severely dehydrated because no one you ask will offer you some of their water. You are weak because you have not eaten for days. You are painfully coughing from your tuberculosis. You have no family, no friends, and it seems no future. As you begin to shut your eyes, gentle but strong arms reach out and pick you up off the road. You regain enough strength to focus on your eyes on the face before you. Her face is wrinkled with age and love and is like a ray of light in your world. This is a familiar story for the many poor and needy of India touched by Mother Teresa who was the Mother of Love. REVEALING THE TOPIC : Today I would like to talk …show more content…
Let’s we begin speech with her mission in life. BODY MAIN POINT (i) : Development of Mother Teresa’s mission in life to serve humanity. (A) Mother Teresa always felt a calling from God to serve in the world. 1. She was born to an Albanian building contractor and his wife in 1910. (B) In her quest to serve needy, she joined the sisters of Loretta at the age of 18. 1. They were a community of Irish nuns who ran schools in India. 2. She felt that her work was too limited. (C) Soon, she left her religious order to work in the slums of Calcutta. 1. It was there she established her goal in her life. 2. In her own words, she wanted to Minister to the “ unwanted, unloved and uncared for “. (D) With small group of nuns at her side, she ran a makeshift clinic where the poor and dying could come to die in peace. 1. She led this group known as the Missionaries of Charity, to live out simple life and to devote themselves entirely to the poorest of the poor. (E) Her mission did not seek fame or