This Christmas, some of my family members were given copies of the coffee table book Blue Planet Run or Nalgene water bottles representing a donation made to Charity: Water.
Charity: Water was recently showcased on ABC's 2020 in a great piece that also highlighted some of their partners.
The piece was aired December 17th. And what came directly after was this mutual admiration society on Twitter and Facebook. People who tweeted about it were publicly thanked. Each partner sang the praises of the others and spoke of how every person and every dollar makes a difference.
It was SO counter intuitive after shopping at the mall and even online. Buy from us. No, buy from us. We'll give you this percentage off. But we'll give you free shipping...if you spend this much. And, of course, I looked at all the offers and figured out the best ones... but it was so heart warming to see the entire special on 2020, and especially the plug for C:W. I haven't met Scott Harrison, C:W's founder - but I did get to hear him share his story and about his life and work on two occasions at Catalyst this year. I originally heard his story more than a year ago at Rob Bell's Drops Like Stars tour. You could text a number and $5 would be added to your phone bill and sent to Charity: Water.
There's just something beautiful and quite Christmas-y about seeing Christians cheering on one another's work and ministries. If you didn't get to see the clip - check it out. If you're on twitter - consider following @charitywater If you're feeling charitable, give to them... $1 gives one person water for an entire year... $20 give them water for the life of the well. And if you want to do more than that... consider giving up your birthday this year. Ask people to give your age in $ to them instead. Their website will totally help you to set it up and carry it out.
Merry belated Christmas. I hope you're enjoying snow and family and water today.
Charity: Water was recently showcased on ABC's 2020 in a great piece that also highlighted some of their partners.
The piece was aired December 17th. And what came directly after was this mutual admiration society on Twitter and Facebook. People who tweeted about it were publicly thanked. Each partner sang the praises of the others and spoke of how every person and every dollar makes a difference.
It was SO counter intuitive after shopping at the mall and even online. Buy from us. No, buy from us. We'll give you this percentage off. But we'll give you free shipping...if you spend this much. And, of course, I looked at all the offers and figured out the best ones... but it was so heart warming to see the entire special on 2020, and especially the plug for C:W. I haven't met Scott Harrison, C:W's founder - but I did get to hear him share his story and about his life and work on two occasions at Catalyst this year. I originally heard his story more than a year ago at Rob Bell's Drops Like Stars tour. You could text a number and $5 would be added to your phone bill and sent to Charity: Water.
There's just something beautiful and quite Christmas-y about seeing Christians cheering on one another's work and ministries. If you didn't get to see the clip - check it out. If you're on twitter - consider following @charitywater If you're feeling charitable, give to them... $1 gives one person water for an entire year... $20 give them water for the life of the well. And if you want to do more than that... consider giving up your birthday this year. Ask people to give your age in $ to them instead. Their website will totally help you to set it up and carry it out.
Merry belated Christmas. I hope you're enjoying snow and family and water today.
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