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Partners for Citizenship & Character serves as a catalyst to initiate, promote, and develop programs to build character and strengthen community. We envision a character-building community where caring, engaged citizens serve with moral courage.
What is Citizenship & Character? That’s a great question, and the answer is something deeper than words. It requires all of the qualities PCC emphasizes each month and more. It is really a lifelong commitment to encouraging these qualities first within ourselves and then in our community.
| January |
Tolerance |
| February |
Honesty |
| March |
Diligence |
| April |
Commitment |
| May |
Trustworthiness |
| June |
Moral Courage |
| July |
Spirituality |
| August |
Integrity |
| September |
Respect |
| October |
Responsibility |
| November |
Self-Discipline |
| December |
Compassion |
Each month, Worthington’s Partners for Citizenship and Character (PCC) spotlights a character trait to help focus its activity in the community. The December trait is compassion.
Dictionary definitions of compassion generally agree on a single clear focus of meaning for this quality. Typical are these words: "deep feeling for and understanding of misery or suffering and the concomitant desire to promote its alleviation."
The PCC Resources Work Team added this:
"The people marked by compassion consistently seek the well-being of others, especially when misfortune and suffering are evident."
Two PCC members explained their understanding of what it means to be a compassionate person. Said one:
"It means attempting to put myself in another's shoes, then to act toward that person in a way that I would want to be treated if I were in their shoes."
How can you be more compassionate this month?
If you are not familiar with PCC’s achievements and activities, please call PCC Executive Director Debbie Sawyer at (614) 337-2351. Make a commitment to PCC!