Donald Mosley is a co-founder of the

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organization. Mosley was a

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and a regional director in

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. With a background in

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and

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, he helped launch Habitat for Humanity in the 1970s. He has been on the international board of directors since 1995. In 1984, as national chairman for the

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(FOR), he helped lead a delegation to

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during the war there between the

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and the

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. That experience impacted him to lead many such groups on dozens of trips to conflict zones in

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, the

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and other parts of the world. In 2003 he helped to launch the All Our Children campaign by which thousands of people in U.S. churches and mosques have provided medicine for

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i children. Mosley is a writer and lectures in churches, universities and in other settings. He is author of books titled "With Our Own Eyes" and "Faith Beyond Borders." He and his wife, Carolyn Mosley, are founding members of the

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community in

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, started in 1980, which has hosted about 4,000 refugees from more than 40 countries around the world. The main goal of the Jubilee Partners is to live as an intentional Christian service community and to extend hospitality to newly arrived refugees. In 1989 Mosley received the

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, which is awarded each year to "honor those around the world working for peace and justice." In 2005 he received the

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for exemplifying

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ideals. It was named after a 1963

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letter by

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that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations; ''

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'' is

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for 'Peace on Earth'.

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