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It often only takes one person with a God-placed desire for other people to change the world, and age is irrelevant…well maybe not. Maybe the young identify more with a 13-year old Jesus teaching in the temple.

What if we follow this young lady’s example…can we start a food bank and feed the hungry…can we clothe those in need…can we adopt the parentless.

What is your desire to change the world?

(Denver, Colorado)—One day when Kristi Burton was 13-years-old and nursing a cold at home, she read a book on community service while watching the 2000 elections on television. “It just came to me,” said Burton, of the out-of-the-blue call to defend the unborn that day. “I prayed about it and knew God was calling me to do it.” (Photo: Nathan W. Armes/The Denver Post )

Now 20, Burton is the leader of a Colorado “personhood” ballot initiative to define a constitutionally protected person as “any human being from the moment of fertilization.”

According to a report in the Denver Post, Burton thinks the organization she started with her family, Colorado for Equal Rights, is close to having the 76,000 voter signatures needed by May 13 to trigger a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment.

Keith Mason, a founder of Michigan Citizens for Life, said: “In Colorado, we’re a small grassroots campaign started by a 19-year- old. I relish that. Kristi is exactly what we needed. She is a breath of fresh air. She has a pure heart. Her quiet demeanor wins people over.”

Burton acknowledges that her up-bringing (she was home-schooled) had a great deal to do with her passion for the unborn. “My mom had a broader, more compassionate perspective on how people make the decision to have an abortion,” she said. “It’s not just about the child, she’d say. It’s about the mother, too.”

“She’s an incredible leader for her young age,” said Judie Brown of the Virginia-based American Life League. “It took one person to get the campaign started in Colorado. I was surprised but gratified by her age.”