What If?

By the time you may be reading this I will be very close to landing in Calif. Or maybe actually home! When I first got Vietnam the length of this trip, 21 days seemed overwhelming. Yet as I type it seems to have gone by very quickly! This may seem a bit strange to you, those who know me well may say “Robert, so what’s new, you are a bit strange” LOL.

Well here goes… Although I get daily emails from VN making me aware of day to day. Regular updates on homes and all our programs.

Yet so often I really don’t see all that is being done by gibtk. I’ve often thought maybe it is another way God has worked to keep my ego a bit down?

This trip I saw so much of the impact of so many lives. As I reflect back on 20 years of lives impacted, and not just the one helped, but there is such a ripple effect! I had to stop and wonder, 

?What if…. What if I and my wife decided not to take this crazy step and begin a non-profit. What if…

Know that we knew nothing of charity work. I was a very troubled youth, till young adult. I got asked to leave my senior high year. Fact is they told my probation officer they wanted me arrested if I came within a mile of the school.

I led a totally lawless life till 30. I did know about fishing and making pizza!

My wife also had no experience, yet we said let’s do something. Friends and leaders said it wont work. Why Vietnam, do it here, isn’t there enough needs in your own backyard? On and on, reason not to yet we took a chance. 

Even when my wife passed so many thought it is over, asking in Love, so Robert now what will you do? Yet through all of you and yes God, gibtk has grown in influence, transforming more and more lives! 

I’m wondering how many of you reading have a sense, a desire to do more with your life? I think most or many when honest want to make a difference. 

What is it that keeps you from taking just a small step? To fulfilling your destiny. May I challenge to think about it? What’s in your heart? What when you think or see it, a flood of emotions come? 

I wrote a book that talks a bit more on beginning gibtk and lessons I am learning leading this dream. It available on Amazon. Called

What if… you took a step

by Robert Kalatschan. 

I also want to make myself available to help stir the dreams that may be in you. Reach out? My email is robert@givingitbacktokids.org.  We have a giving it back to kids facebook, as well as a personal page. On Instagram look for gibtk. 

I certainly hope to hear from you! Lets take a step!!!

   SO WHAT IF… YOU took a step….

Robert Kalatschan

Giving it Back to Kids

www.gibtk.org

robert@gibtk.org