A few weeks ago in Westlake, Texas, I had the pleasure of meeting Glenn Beck at a Santorum event. He is a familiar and welcome fixture in D/FW now, and it was a pleasure to get to know him personally. It's always nice when people you respect professionally are also endearing personally, and trust me, that does not always happen.
So imagine my additional delight when the organizers of a fundraiser for an Israeli hospital asked if I would serve as Master of Ceremonies for an event featuring Glenn as keynote speaker on May 1 at the Eisemann Center in Richardson. You could say this was an easy yes.
When I visited Israel a few years ago, one of the most lasting images I brought home was of the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya, where we were scheduled to interview some doctors and officials. Those interviews were delayed by a rocket attack from just a few miles away in this Northern town. Minutes before our arrival, victims had been brought in from just a few miles away. It is these memories that remind me of what it means to be in a vivid, everyday war on terror when the terrorists are not across an ocean but across a border a short drive away.
What many Israeli hospitals need is an underground wartime emergency facility so that their services to patients are not interrupted even as further violence erupts. This event will help the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center build just such a facility at its location along the highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. As Americans, as Christians-- as people of any faith, we embody the best in ourselves when we support our brothers and sisters in Israel. I am very proud to be part of this night, which promises to be inspiring and enjoyable.
Here's the link for tickets. I hope to see you there.
This will be a GREAT event! So glad that you are going to M.C. and it's for such a wonderful cause.
It's hard to comprehend living in a place where all of your neighbors want to destroy you on a daily basis - and they live just a few miles away. This is a great opportunity to support the incredible work of this hospital which does not discriminate regarding the patients they treat, including all races, creeds, etc. That's something we can all get behind.
Posted by: A Facebook User | 04/16/2012 at 01:19 PM
sounds like mark sucking up as usual.
Posted by: john boy | 04/18/2012 at 07:21 AM
I personally asked Mark to MC this event... thankfully, he accepted.
@Mark Davis - glad you also got to host for Rush Limbaugh the last 2 days... I was so busy working on this event that I didn't get to tune in. Hope you had a great time in NYC :-).
Posted by: Susan Fletcher | 04/20/2012 at 10:21 PM
I know this is a bit off topic but I wanted to share this with my friends here. This is new and amazingly it works , because I've tryed it. Now it is closing soon so don't blame me if you miss out lol. http://bit.ly/click2profit
Posted by: Blogging Master | 04/01/2013 at 12:07 AM