{"id":2003,"date":"2015-12-25T00:31:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T00:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2015-12-25T00:31:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T00:31:02","slug":"a-gift-to-the-world-it-could-be-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2015\/12\/25\/a-gift-to-the-world-it-could-be-you\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gift To The World: It Could Be You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmas-child.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1238\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1238\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmas-child.jpg\" alt=\"christmas-child\" width=\"527\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, Christmas Eve Day, I&#8217;m writing to INMED&#8217;s graduates: the 434 individuals who have earned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/diplomas\/international-public-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">INMED Diploma in International Public Health (DIPH)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/diplomas\/international-medicine-public-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diploma in International Medicine &amp; Public Health (DIM&amp;PH)<\/a>. They have achieved these academic credentials through both rigorous didactic study and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/training-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\">on-site service experience<\/a> in a very-low income community. But more importantly they, almost to the person, are engaged in career service for the world&#8217;s most poor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas, this year, what can you give that will be most significant? Consider the gift of <em>yourself &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>your time and your talent to benefit people who lack the resources to improve their own estate. Such giving can indeed be effective when made in a spirit of humility, dedication, and empowerment. Such was the approach of Christ who taught us, &#8220;W<span id=\"en-ESV-23816\" class=\"text Matt-20-26\"><span class=\"woj\">hoever would be great among you must be your servant, <\/span><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-23817\" class=\"text Matt-20-27\"><span class=\"woj\">and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,<\/span><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-23818\" class=\"text Matt-20-28\"><span class=\"woj\"> even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%2020&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew 20:26-28<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today, Christmas Eve Day, I&#8217;m writing to INMED&#8217;s graduates: the 434 individuals who have earned the INMED Diploma in International Public Health (DIPH) and Diploma in International Medicine &amp; Public Health (DIM&amp;PH). They have achieved these academic credentials through both rigorous didactic study and on-site service experience in a very-low income community. But more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inmed-action-steps-for-you","category-global-health-news-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}