Doing Small Things with Great Love: A Conversation with Sharon Eubank
Join us for a conversation with Sharon Eubank about her new book Doing Small Things with Great Love.
Drawing from decades of experience in humanitarian service, Sharon Eubank offers a wisdom-packed guide on how to enact impactful aid in the world and especially in your own backyard. Whether you’re inspired by compassion or looking to enrich your life through meaningful service, this book will change how you approach helping others.
Through powerful storytelling as well as twelve principles of action, rooted in her own experiences, Sharon demonstrates how to provide sustainable support and avoid common pitfalls. Her principles cover everything from preserving dignity to asking the right questions to attacking root causes. You’ll learn the importance of finding local solutions, fostering trusted networks, and recognizing that real help is always an exchange of value.
Whether you’re involved in large-scale relief or simply want to make a difference in your community, Doing Small Things with Great Love will equip you with the knowledge and a path to act that empowers you and others to say, “We did it ourselves.”
Start making an impact today in your own community through 12 service principles that can spark anyone into action.
12 Principles of Service
You are most powerful where you live
Find local solutions for local problems
Trusted networks determine the success of the money
The right questions reveal the real answers
Everyone is rich and has something to offer
Protect dignity, protect choice
My solution to your problem will always be wrong
Real help is always an exchange
Spend energy attacking root causes
Sustainability—what happens when the problem comes up next time?
Volunteerism weaves social fabric and can be a tool for peace
It’s meant to be fun
WHEN: October 13, 2025 6PM
WHERE: 31 Vinal Avenue #3 Somerville, MA
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Sharon Eubank is the global humanitarian director for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since 1985, the organization has donated billions of dollars in assistance and millions of volunteer hours in 191 countries.
Sharon often speaks in global settings that include the G-20 Interfaith Forum, Chatham House, and United Nations conferences on sustainable development. Topics include early nutrition and literacy as the foundation of all other humanitarian interventions, the necessary power of interfaith networks, and volunteerism as an instrument of peace. Her commitment to the gospel Jesus Christ taught includes deep respect for people of many other faiths.
Her undisclosed hobbies include trying out homemade pie recipes, Wordle, and anything related to NASA’s James Webb telescope. Doing Small Things with Great Love is Sharon’s first book.
Zachary Davis is the Executive Director of Faith Matters and the Editor of Wayfare Magazine. He is also the host of the podcasts Article 13, Writ Large, and Ministry of Ideas. He is the recipient of two John Templeton Foundation grants. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University and Harvard Divinity School and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife, Mariya and their three children.