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My small group decided to participate in a campaign for the Blood:Water Mission that helps build fresh water wells in parts of Africa. The basic DL is that starting...well today until April 9th we can only drink water and keep track of what we would spend otherwise on beverages, Starbucks, Jamba Juice and whatever other fancy your heart desires. At the end of the 40 days we donate all the money to Blood:Water to help them raise money to build these wells. So just to give you an idea, if we send in 200 dollars at the end, that will give 200 people fresh water for a YEAR! It's really not a lot of money and it goes a long way. So I challenge you to take part in the campaign as well. I'm going to ask that the girls to journal about the experience and maybe I'll get some of them to okay that I post their entries here, so check back for some encouraging stories while we try and go against the American norm and drink only water, for 40 days.




"We have the gift of choice: Freedom to choose on any given day what clothes we will wear, what work we will do, what food we will eat and what we will drink. In nearly a third of the world injustice threatens to take away these basic kinds of choices that we take for granted. In these places a woman can choose to drink the unclean river water or the unclean puddle water. She can choose to walk once for four hours to get water or walk twice for eight hours to get more water. She can choose to give her children something to drink that she knows may make them sick or she can give them nothing at all. She can persist or give up. You can help give her a real choice. [continue reading below]

We challenge you to make Water your ONLY beverage for 40 DAYS starting MARCH 1 and ending APRIL 9 in conjunction with the Lenten Season and World Water Day (Mar. 22). Gather your friends and join in solidarity with our African brothers and sisters in an effort to provide clean water for communities in need. As you do so, we ask that you keep track of what money you would have typically spent on other drinks throughout the day and save that money. At the end of 40 days donate what you saved to Blood:Water. Imagine, if you saved $5 a day just by cutting out a visit to your local bar or barista, then you’d save $200 in 40 days. That’s enough to provide clean water for 200 people for an entire year!

So ditch the morning coffee and o.j., leave out the lunchtime soda, and cancel the evening beverage. You won’t need an ark for this 40 Days of Water, but you will need a little self-discipline. But we know you can do it, because you know who you’re doing it for. Make the choice. Visit bloodwatermission.com/40days to find out more, download materials, and get started."