Blood: Water Mission

At the Derek Webb concert that my friends and I went to on Saturday evening, D.Webb spoke about a real need in Africa in regards to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Blood: Water Mission is trying to build 1,000 wells in 1,000 African communities to promote clean blood and clean water. Right now, some of the women have to walk over 10 miles to the nearest well and the water that they are bringing back is not clean water. Derek said that a lot of the people are "carrying back their own death certificates" due to the lack of good wells.

Around 6,500 people die daily. I know with the aftermath of Katrina a lot of people want to help with the efforts in Mississippi and Louisiana. I am not discouraging that, I just hope that we can open our eyes and have a worldview. We are not special, elite people because we live in America. If we had friends and family living in Africa we would be pumping our money to help out without thinking twice. I just want to alert those of you who don't know about this need. The bottom line is we need to love these people as ourselves. One dollar will provide water for one African for an entire year. We have no problem spending $5 on Starbuck's or $2 on a cherry limeaid. Water is plentiful hear. We often spend $1 on a bottled water at a restaurant. It's staggering to me to think that water will last one meal, while $1 to Blood:Water Mission will last one person water for a whole year. Do the math. Let us be good stewards to all that God has given us.

Here is the website: http://www.bloodwatermission.org

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