On the way home from church today, I asked my 8-year-old daughter Brinna how her Lenten project was coming. She's been so faithful to work at her commitment to only drink water for the 40 days of Lent. Today is day 8 for her because a couple of days went by before she heard about Blood: Water Mission through K-Love's morning show. This organization, founded by the band Jars of Clay, is working across Africa to bring clean water to those in need. It's unbelievable, but $1 will provide a year's worth of water to someone in Africa. Such a simple task for us, yet in Uganda 30% of their total population of 32 million souls do not have access to clean drinking water.
Nearly immediately upon hearing of the project, she wanted to get involved and try to drink water every day. The first couple of days she had juice or milk a couple of times before she realized she had promised to drink only water. I told her, "That's okay. Just do your best." And, it was then I decided to challenge her to stay true to her commitment by promising to donate $1 to Blood:Water Mission for every day she drinks only water. My proposal is a bit different than the original intent to donate the money saved buying coffee, juice, milk, soda and donate that, but I thought it would be easier for her to understand $1/day.
If you want to read more about it check out the website at http://40days.bloodwatermission.com/how-to-take-part/
Follow Brinna on her journey this Lent - I'm so proud of her. I'll keep you posted on her progress.
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