Men of impact: Nick Vujicic

Today's 'men of impact' is focused on Nick Vujicic, a man born without arms and legs yet impacting the world around him with his message of hope. Sit back and inspire yourself with his biography...

Nicholas James " Nick " Vujicic is an Australian Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with phocomelia, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of legs and arms.

Early life and family

Vujicic was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1982, to Dušanka and Borislav Vujičić, devout Serbian Orthodox emigrants from Yugoslavia. His parents became active in a Melbourne church. His mother attended nursing school at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne while his father worked in business management. He was born with phocomelia without some fully formed limbs. According to his autobiography, his mother refused to see him or hold him while the nurse held him in front of her, but she and her husband eventually accepted their son's condition and understood it as God's plan for their son.

  Vujicic has two small and deformed feet, one of which he calls his "chicken drumstick" because of its shape. Originally, he was born with the toes of that foot fused. An operation was performed to separate the toes so that he could use them as fingers to grab, turn a page, or perform other functions. He has been able to use his foot to operate an electric wheelchair, a computer and a mobile phone. Vujicic notes that he had an "amazingly normal childhood".

  Vujicic thrived in his teenage and young adult years despite being bullied. After his mother showed him a newspaper article about a man dealing with a severe disability when he was seventeen, he started to give talks at his prayer group.

  He graduated from Griffith University at the age of 21 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with a double major in accountancy and financial planning.

 Career

Vujicic started his speaking engagements at 19. In 2005, he founded an international non-profit organisation and ministry, Life Without Limbs. In 2007, Vujicic founded Attitude is Altitude, a secular motivational speaking company. He starred in the short film The Butterfly Circus. At the 2010 Method Fest Independent Film Festival, he was awarded Best Actor in a Short Film for his starring performance as Will.

Beliefs

On his webpages, in a self-formulated "Statement of Faith", Vujicic states his adherence to born-again Christianity, to classically Calvinist notions on sin and redemption and to Biblical inerrancy without specifying what particular understanding of Biblical inerrancy he intends to mean. His tenets of faith also include the imminent Second Coming of Christ . He does not publicly identify with or adhere to any denomination or congregation.

Personal life

On 12 February 2012, Vujicic married Kanae Miyahara. The couple have two sons and live in Southern California.
Nick can do other things that men with arms and legs can do. For instance, play soccer, golf, swim among others.

 Books and publications

His first book, Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life , was published by Random House in 2010 and has been translated into more than 30 languages. He markets a motivational DVD, Life's Greater Purpose , a short documentary filmed in 2005. The second part of the DVD was filmed at his local church in Brisbane. He markets a DVD for young people titled No Arms, No Legs, No Worries!.

 

  Afterthoughts

What would you do in as much you have what it takes to make an impact in your community?

Your present stage is never the end of your life. Seek out opportunities to liberate yourself.

What you are going through right now is for God's glorification.

Accept whatever challenge life has been posed against you, seek the opportunities to commensurate the challenges and be an Highflyer.

Don't just sit down right there expecting things to be okay for you. Stand to your feet and make things happen !

Share this to people you want to see liberated from their present state of depression and bless their lives.