Awakening: Selfless Service - Interviews with Compelling People by Connie Shaw

Kathy and Howard Feldenkreis of Colorado Springs, Colorado, are successful, dynamic business people who have spearheaded, with a half-dozen friends, a model weekly homeless feeding project for the past six years. They dispense cooked food, humor and friendliness and warm, new clothes in harsh winter months. They serve year-round and vary the menu offerings according to the season and the need.

Leona Martens, of Greeley, Colorado, brings a wealth of administrative and leadership experience to her current position as Executive Director of the Weld Food Bank,the distribution center for many many agencies in Weld County, Colorado . In this interview she shares her Weld Food Bank experiences, tells about how a food bank works and about its role in the community.

Jane Trainor, Alaskan healer, colonic therapist and humanitarian, could not have known how her life would evolve when she decided to live in the bush with her new husband - hunting, fishing and trapping in sub-zero temps among bear and wolves. Her unique organization skills aided the natural delivery of her baby in an unheated six-sided cabin without running water or electricity. Perhaps it was the danger, beauty and simplicity of her early lifestyle that inspired Jane later, after an epiphany in India, to dedicate her life to feeding the hungry, handicapped and lonely isolates of Fairbanks. Learn how she has successfully created a much-needed and most welcome free service fueled by intense love and interfaith leadership skills that have made the Fairbanks feeding projects a noteworthy model.

When Ms. Roshan Motivala's physician father started popular youth service projects in India, she could not have known then that she would carry the family legacy of selfless service to Los Angeles. "Love is the acid that dissolves all differences," said Dr. Kolah, her father, and Roshan has kept this saying in mind while serving food to the homeless in downtown L.A. for over thirty years with her little band of dependable, devoted friends. What are the secrets to her vision, effectiveness and unstoppable cheerfulness? Find out in this interview!