For years Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta. But she couldn’t stop thinking about the suffering and poverty she saw outside the convent walls. In 1948 she got permission to leave the school and go work among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. She didn’t have any money. She simply trusted God to provide and started an open-air school for slum children. In 1950 she was allowed to start her own order, and its main job was to love and care for the people nobody else was willing to look after. You don’t need a big budget to start serving. You need eyes that see the hurting and the faith to take the first step toward them.
