How can we possible relate to the suffering and problems facing so many people in this world?
We can’t, we tell ourselves; the problems are too large, and the people too far away to
understand.
But are they really? Water Missions International wants to help us take it personally.
Beginning October 10th, Water Missions International is launching an initiative to bring the safe
water crisis that plagues some 1 billion people everyday into our daily lives as well. The Gifts of
Water initiative will be a series of campaigns and challenges geared to help people give small
but life changing gifts to people they have never met, but will soon learn to know and love.
It is called the TEN challenge, and it starts with a simple question: “If you knew that, for $10,
you could give the gift of safe water to someone in need, would you do it?” Of course you
would. It’s so little. “Good! Take out your cell phone and Text the message WMI to 85944. and
you can give $10 to give the gift of safe water to another person!” But the challenge just
doesn’t stop there; the TEN challenge is not just for YOU to give $10, it is for you to get 10
friends to give $10 as well—10 friends giving $10 to give 10 people the gift of safe water.
We don’t want people just to give, we want people to build relationships. Each group of 10
people are given a greeting card (printed or virtual) to write notes of encouragement on and
sign. Then the cards are sent, with the water system, to the community where the water
systems is going live, to show them how many people care about them. When people sign the
cards they can also give their email addresses, so that we can share a video with them as each
community receives the gift of safe water.
It is our goal in this first challenge to give safe water to 100 communities. It will take 250 cards
or 2,500 people to give safe water to an entire community, so it will take 250,000 people giving
$10 each to do this. Can you imagine the fun we are all going to have as we watch this happen?
Here is how you can help:
•Get involved yourself. Gather 10 friends a do a virtual 10 card just to see how it works.
http://giftsofwater.com/get-involved/virtual-10-card/
•Shout us out on a blog. Ask people to put your blog name in as the “organization” so we can
track how many cards you generate. (What if 100 bloggers could get 100 readers to go get 10
friends to give? That’s 100,000 people right there!)
•Do a quick video for us to post at giftsofwater.com
•Consider interviewing us on your blog.
•Get your church involved! We need you, as an influential leader, to help churches get
involved.
•Get creative—remember, this is a challenge to the Church to see what they can do.
With your help, the problem of access to clean water can truly be resolved for millions of
people. What Water Missions is doing is providing real solutions that work, ending the water
crisis for community after community and in doing so we are able to share with them the love
of Christ.
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