Levi follows Jesus:
One day Jesus went to see a tax collector named Levi who was sitting in a tax collectors booth. When Jesus got there he told him “follow me !” so Levi got up, left everything and followed him, Levi took Jesus to his house and gave him a big dinner where many other people and tax collectors were eating too. The pharoses and the people who taught the law of the pharoses started to complain to Jesus’ followers and asked them “why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” and Jesus answered to them “it is not the healthy people who need a doctor but the sick, I’ve come to invite good people but sinners to change their hearts and lives.”
Jesus chooses his apostles:
One day Jesus called his followers and chose twelve of them which were to be his apostles, the twelve he chose where: Simon (who Jesus called Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alpheus, Simon called zealot, Judas son of James and Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus by turning Jesus over to his enemies. Jesus and his apostles came down off of the mountain and he stood on ground level. There was a large crowd of his followers as well as people from the nearby cities of Judea, Jerusalem and the seacoast cities of Tyres and Sidon, they had all come to hear Jesus teach and to be healed of their sickness, so Jesus healed all those who were in trouble by evil spirits. All the people were trying to touch Jesus, as a power that was healing them all came from him.
Mary and Martha:
Once while Jesus and his followers where traveling Jesus went into town where a woman named Martha let him stay with her. Martha had a sister named Mary who sat at Jesus’ feet listening to him teach. Martha was busy doing all the housework so Martha went to Jesus and told him “Lord don’t you care that my sister has left me alone to do the work? Tell her to help me”. But the lord answered her and said “ Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about so many things, only one thing is important Mary has chosen the better thing and it will never be taken away from her.
B2 Coursework
Martin Luther King:
Martin Luther king was a black American who grew up in a country that treated black people as second-class citizens in the 1930s. Many of the people who had white employees were exploited and they were also discriminated against in many areas such as employment and shopping. In the 50s and 60s black people started to protest against these injustices and there were riots in several cities which were legally populated by black people. Things were in danger of getting out of hand due to rioting so reverend martin Luther king began to teach black people that there was another way so he organized boycotts, boycotts for buses, café’s, restaurants and schools which followed polities of segregations and freedom marches across America. In 1960 he led one on Washington where 250,000 demonstrators demanded that black people were given the right to vote. Martin Luther king was shot dead by a white man in 1968 while he was in a hotel in Memphis, Tunisia. He was just 39years old when he died
Maximilian Koble:
Maximilian Koble was a priest who in 1941 was arrested by Nazis and sent to a prison and got deported Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a terrible place where people were treated in the most inhumane ways possible. Everyday thousands of people died from beatings, torture, starvation and the gas chambers. He dedicated his life in Auschwitz to helping other prisoners; to do this he would console them, share his food with them and organize secret services. One day in the month of July in 1941 three men escaped from the concentration camp and the Nazis picked ten men in reprisal to starve to death in an underground bunker. One of the ten men was Franciszek Gajonizek who cried out for his family saying “oh my poor wife and children”. Soon after this had happened Maximalian Koble with the prison number 16070 stepped out and offered to take his place. Then the soldiers took him and the other nine prisoners to an airless underground bunk to starve. When they were in the bunk it was as if they were in a church, Maximilian Koble kept praying and encouraged the others to pray and sometimes-even prisoners from other bunks would pray too. All of the other prisoners started to die one by one until only Maximilian Koble was left eventually they got the doctor to inject him with an acid to kill him and he just gave out his arm sat there and died.
Mother Teresa:
Mother Teresa was a Yugoslavian woman who worked for many years in India caring for the diseased and the dying that nobody else cared about. She worked tirelessly for many years and was given an old temple by the government that became known as the home for the dying. As other people became curios of her selfless work donations flooded in and other nuns joined her and the congregation of sisters was formed. Mother Teresa believed that the dying needed to be wanted and that nothing can be achieved without god. She was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1979for her work and until her death she bought peace, love and happiness to thousands of people.
Bob Geldoff:
Bob Geldoff first became known as the lead singer of the 80s band the Boomtown Rats however, since then he has been awarded a knighthood for his work n raising money and awareness of the starving millions in Ethiopia.
In 1984, following a news report from Ethiopia that touched and horrified him he and Midge Ure composed a song that was recorded by a large number of celebrities who worked for nothing and all the proceeds, 8 million pounds, went to fight famine in Ethiopia. The celebrities were known as Band Aid and the song “Do they know its Christmas” became the biggest selling record ever in Britain. This was followed by a similar project in America. Bob Geldoff went to Ethiopia to see how the funds raised could be best spent. Following his experience of the tragedies in Ethiopia he returned and organized Live Aid. +This music extravaganza was watched worldwide by an estimated 500 million people and raised millions for famine in Africa. Today Bob Geldoff ‘s work continues.
