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Big E's Sports Grille

710 Monroe Avenue NW, Grand Rapids

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2025 – 7:00 AM

Jazmine Brooks is a systems thinker and strategist serving the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. She has a diverse leadership background in the military, faith based, and community organizing sectors.

As she pivots into philanthropic programming, she has taken the last two months to rediscover her purpose and passions during a peacemaking tour across the global south. Having visited South Korea, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, she is sharing her experience with those who seek the highest good of community.

Join us as she shares the cultural and spiritual transformation that has strengthened her resolve for service.

Invocation: Eric Nelson
Introduction: Jeff Kissinger

Service

1. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
   - Mahatma Gandhi
2. "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
   - Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pike