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(AgapePress) - "This is the White House calling. You need to call us." These are the words Gianna Jessen heard as she listened to her voicemail.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Eager to the return the call she assumed was a joke, she dialed the number. The voice on the other end gave her news she never expected to hear: "You need to get on a plane within two days because you're going to meet the president in Pittsburgh. He's signing the bill that you testified in favor of a couple of years ago."[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Reality set in as Jessen arrived in Pittsburgh and was led into a crowded room where she met President George W. Bush. She was too nervous to speak, but Bush calmed her anxiety with a hug.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"The president of the United States is treating me like his next-door neighbor," Jessen remembers thinking.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"This is the way I need to be in leadership," she thought. "The Scripture that kept running through my mind [was] 'He who is chief among you will be the servant of all.'"[/FONT]
(AgapePress) - "This is the White House calling. You need to call us." These are the words Gianna Jessen heard as she listened to her voicemail.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Eager to the return the call she assumed was a joke, she dialed the number. The voice on the other end gave her news she never expected to hear: "You need to get on a plane within two days because you're going to meet the president in Pittsburgh. He's signing the bill that you testified in favor of a couple of years ago."[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Reality set in as Jessen arrived in Pittsburgh and was led into a crowded room where she met President George W. Bush. She was too nervous to speak, but Bush calmed her anxiety with a hug.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"The president of the United States is treating me like his next-door neighbor," Jessen remembers thinking.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"This is the way I need to be in leadership," she thought. "The Scripture that kept running through my mind [was] 'He who is chief among you will be the servant of all.'"[/FONT]