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Warner tells Vitae crowd that they can make a difference
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By Michelle Brooks
mbrooks@newstribune.com
Every person has the power to make a difference in someone's life.
That was the message football icon Kurt Warner brought to more than 900 people at the Vitae Caring Foundation's 16th annual fundraiser Thursday.
Greg and Joan Muenks are an example of individuals touching those around them. The Muenks, who attend Immaculate Conception, Loose Creek, have supported the foundation for more than 10 years, including a table sponsorship at this event and collecting regular donations from their parish.
“It's a very important cause, that's why we're here,” Muenks said just after the couple was photographed with the guest speaker. “The pictures are fine, but we're here to support and hopefully affect a little bit of change.”
Vitae creates strategic marketing campaigns to promote pro-life concepts with compassion, innovation and forward-thinking.
“I like the way they just make people think,” Muenks said of the organization's commercials. “Laws don't change what people think. You (must) change attitudes and society's demands.”
The foundation's methods are having an impact in areas like the metropolitan Atlanta, Ga., area where after five years of intensive advertising the abortion numbers have dropped by 10 percent. The rest of the state's abortion numbers have risen. So Vitae plans to take the campaign statewide.
This celebration evolved from a backyard barbecue at Don and RuthAnn Schnieders' home 16 years ago to a $500,000, two-event fundraiser.
The Schnieders are another example of what Warner called “the Power of One.”
“This is about celebrating and protecting the greatest gift in the world around us,” Warner said. “The Power of One resides inside each one of us ... to be what God created us to be.”
Quoting 2 Timothy, Warner noted that believers have been “given a spirit of power ... that allows us to change the world around us.”
Although famous people like Rosa Parks, Oprah Winfrey, professional athletes or politicians can have a more widespread outlet, Warner stressed “no one and nothing has impacted me more than my children.”
Warner and his wife, Brenda, live in Arizona with their seven children.
Their oldest son, now 18 years old, suffered a head injury when he was four months old. Despite doctors who continually said what he would not be able to do, their son persevered, Warner said.
The teenager's dream since he was very little was to drive, although he was legally blind. Because Warner's son had an incredible memory, he eventually was able to drive a tractor solo in their circle drive, so many laps that it ran out of gas.
“That's a great memory - to see him take the wheel, light up, and his life began to change,” Warner said. “His power of perseverance - when he was told he would never do something and he never gave up - that's the story of my life too.”
Each of his children down to the two-year-old twin girls have strength of character and distinct personalities that Warner said has impacted his life.
“The Power of One has the ability to affect the world around (him),” Warner said. “Understand God put a spirit inside us before we were in our mother's womb and set us apart to do something special.”
That was the message football icon Kurt Warner brought to more than 900 people at the Vitae Caring Foundation's 16th annual fundraiser Thursday.
Greg and Joan Muenks are an example of individuals touching those around them. The Muenks, who attend Immaculate Conception, Loose Creek, have supported the foundation for more than 10 years, including a table sponsorship at this event and collecting regular donations from their parish.
“It's a very important cause, that's why we're here,” Muenks said just after the couple was photographed with the guest speaker. “The pictures are fine, but we're here to support and hopefully affect a little bit of change.”
Vitae creates strategic marketing campaigns to promote pro-life concepts with compassion, innovation and forward-thinking.
“I like the way they just make people think,” Muenks said of the organization's commercials. “Laws don't change what people think. You (must) change attitudes and society's demands.”
The foundation's methods are having an impact in areas like the metropolitan Atlanta, Ga., area where after five years of intensive advertising the abortion numbers have dropped by 10 percent. The rest of the state's abortion numbers have risen. So Vitae plans to take the campaign statewide.
This celebration evolved from a backyard barbecue at Don and RuthAnn Schnieders' home 16 years ago to a $500,000, two-event fundraiser.
The Schnieders are another example of what Warner called “the Power of One.”
“This is about celebrating and protecting the greatest gift in the world around us,” Warner said. “The Power of One resides inside each one of us ... to be what God created us to be.”
Quoting 2 Timothy, Warner noted that believers have been “given a spirit of power ... that allows us to change the world around us.”
Although famous people like Rosa Parks, Oprah Winfrey, professional athletes or politicians can have a more widespread outlet, Warner stressed “no one and nothing has impacted me more than my children.”
Warner and his wife, Brenda, live in Arizona with their seven children.
Their oldest son, now 18 years old, suffered a head injury when he was four months old. Despite doctors who continually said what he would not be able to do, their son persevered, Warner said.
The teenager's dream since he was very little was to drive, although he was legally blind. Because Warner's son had an incredible memory, he eventually was able to drive a tractor solo in their circle drive, so many laps that it ran out of gas.
“That's a great memory - to see him take the wheel, light up, and his life began to change,” Warner said. “His power of perseverance - when he was told he would never do something and he never gave up - that's the story of my life too.”
Each of his children down to the two-year-old twin girls have strength of character and distinct personalities that Warner said has impacted his life.
“The Power of One has the ability to affect the world around (him),” Warner said. “Understand God put a spirit inside us before we were in our mother's womb and set us apart to do something special.”
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