On the fourth day of ChurchMag’s Twelve Days of Christmas (learn more) I learned about another cool cause that’s all about sharing water for the body and soul.
These guys are a part of the Advent Conspiracy and have a lot of cool ways to give and get involved in their life giving ministry!
Living Water International
From the Living Water International website:
“Living Water International exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience “living water”—the gospel of Jesus Christ—which alone satisfies the deepest thirst.”
Amen! 😀
These guys have been at this for the past 20+ years! Good thing, too, as 783 million people lack access to safe drinking water.
How are you enjoying that smartphone, now? I know I swallow hard when I read these stats. Sure, spending money on technology doesn’t mean someone goes without water, but by spending less on myself and more on others, is something God calls us all to do, right? </rant>
Check out the awesome stuff Living Water International is doing:
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Web Well Done
It’s worth mentioning one of the cool things I found on Living Water International’s website. They have a fully interactive map that shows all the places they’ve dropped wells:
That’s a lot of projects!
They’ve done some cool stuff with Google Maps:
You can zoom in and everything!
Nifty, right?
This Christmas
There’s a lot of great organizations to support this Christmas. More than I can afford! By the end of these Twelve Days of Christmas, I’m going to have a list of causes to help support during the rest of the year–not just for Christmas.
Living Water International does have some cool Christmas styled giving, though. You can setup your own fundraising page and personally raise money–very cool–and they’ve devised an interesting ‘gift card’ styled donation approach. By purchasing a gift card, the recipient then goes to the Living Water International’s website and chooses which country they want their gift card to be applied to. This has got to be one of the best Christmas gift giving integrations I’ve seen on a fund raising website.
Very cool.
Learn more on the Living Water International website.
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John Wilkerson says
Learn about Birthright. They help women make informed decisions about their pregnancies. http://www.thewiredhomeschool.com/2012/12/12-days-of-giving-day-four-birthright-international/
IHRG says
Heartline Ministries has a heart for Haiti — learn more! –> http://ihrg.org/heartline-ministries/
Eric Dye says
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – http://dyecasting.it/on-the-fourth-day-of-christmas/