• Define service.
• How can one person’s sacrifice affect a community?

Ask the group if they have ever seen what happens when you drop a rock into a lake. A single act of dropping a rock can send ripples across a pond.

Watch this video about the Gurleys.

Discuss the following:

• Why did these men choose to serve?
• What was civil rights?
• What rights did they fight to protect?
• How did their act of serving affect others?
• What can you do in your everyday life to serve others?