September 2005

For the past several years, the effort to reach the unreached has gathered steam, gained strength, built energy, become a trend, gotten support, moved forward: in short, it has built momentum. Here we look closely at a word that helps to define our mission. A definition of ‘momentum’ usually resorts to physics. Merriam-Webster defines momentum as ‘the property of a moving body that the body has by virtue of its mass and motion, equal to the product of the body’s mass and velocity, determining the length of time required to bring it to rest when under the action of a [...]