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Violence as Kenya talks suspended

Kibera is still recovering from earlier violence Article from BBC World NewsApril 8, 2008 Violent demonstrations have broken out in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, a day after the opposition suspended talks on forming a power-sharing government. Opposition supporters in the...
Read Discuss (1) April 8, 2008

Video Update

"Celebrating Stories"...
Read Discuss (0) March 24, 2008

Today Is World Water Day

This Saturday, March 22nd is World Water Day! In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated March 22 as "World Water Day" to draw international attention to the critical lack of clean, safe drinking water worldwide.  More than 1 billion...
Read Discuss (0) March 22, 2008

Sixth Graders Contribute to Africa's Need

Amidst the social drama of middle school and the stress of preparation for standardized testing, the sixth graders at Stewarts Creek Middle School took a break and turned their focus on a greater need, providing clean water to a community...
Read Discuss (2) March 12, 2008

Kenya rivals agree to share power

article from BBC World NewsFeb. 28, 2008 The deal follows talks lasting more than a month Leaders sign pact Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga have signed an agreement to end the country's post-election crisis. At a...
Read Discuss (1) February 28, 2008

Sons of Lwala Film Update

The Sons of Lwala film site is now up and running.  The film represents just one story of many in which Blood:Water Mission has supported. The film follows the story of two brothers from Kenya whose village sent them to...
Read Discuss (0) February 8, 2008

Bicycle To Bring Clean Water To Africa!

Bicycle To Bring Clean Water To Africa! This summer you have an opportunity to raise funds and awareness for the 1000 Wells Project by riding your bike from Los Angeles to Washington D.C....
Read Discuss (0) January 16, 2008

Blood:Water Wins Myspace IMPACT Award

The Presidential candidates haven't been the only people campaigning for votes this season... MySpace.com has announced the winner of their "MySpace Impact Awards" contest for December, 2007 as none other than Blood:Water Mission! Thanks to all of you who campaigned...
Read Discuss (1) January 12, 2008

KENYA CRISIS REPORT: Letters from the Ground

Hundreds of thousands of Kenyans have been victimized by a weeklong spate of violence that has left nearly 600 people dead and countless thousands driven from their homes after the nation's disputed presidential election.  With a massive health crisis looming,...
Read Discuss (1) January 9, 2008

Third Day and Jars of Clay Raise $75,000 on Christmas Tour

Thanks to all of you who we saw out during the "Christmas Offerings Tour" with Third Day and Jars of Clay.  Nearly $75,000 was raised for Blood:Water Mission during the 12- City "Christmas Offerings Tour." At least 12 entire African...
Read Discuss (0) January 9, 2008

Stories from Africa: Lwala, Kenya (Frederick Otieno Ochieng')

I think back to June of 2005, returning home for the construction of the clinic, meeting Joel and his Mzungu friend Jena in Rongo. Mom had always said that those who welcome guests have welcomed angels! ...
Read Discuss (0) December 18, 2007

Stories from Africa: Kagogo, Kenya

“I am Mary Adhiambo aged 36 years. I was married in the year 1994 and God blessed me with 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. My firstborn is 14yrs old and last born is 3yrs old. In 2002 my...
Read Discuss (0) December 18, 2007

Blood:Water Mission Christmas Gift Card

Give the gift of clean water this Christmas season. A $10 donation will provide one person in Africa with a lifetime of clean water! Give personally or in someone else's name.  If you donate in someone's honor, we've provided this...
Read Discuss (0) November 28, 2007

Vote Now for Blood:Water to win $10K!

Vote for Blood:Water Mission in Razoo's $10,000 Change Your World Contest. To Vote, Visit:  http://beta.razoo.com/contest -or-  http://beta.razoo.com/groups/bloodwatermission When does voting end? The last vote will be cast at 11:59PM (eastern time) on October 15, 2007....
Read Discuss (0) October 12, 2007

Out of Place: Humility in Africa

 from Jena Lee, Executive DirectorGreetings from Java House in Nairobi! I just returned from a handful of days in Rwanda visiting with some of the communities we are supporting through Geneva Global. It was a good and challenging visit. It...
Read Discuss (1) September 27, 2007

Help Blood:Water win $10,000!

Have you ever wanted to raise money for Blood:Water but haven't been able to give?  Well now's your chance to help Blood:Water financially without spending a cent.  Welcome Razoo. Razoo is an innovative new web platform that is actively engaging...
Read Discuss (1) September 13, 2007

Micaela's Party

"I have always had a heart for Africa. For my 13th birthday I decided to invite my friends and family to participate in raising money for clean water in Africa. The event was such a blessing and my hope is...
Read Discuss (1) August 21, 2007

Injustice: Made in China

"The first genocide of the 21st century has been ravaging Darfur for more than four years, costing up to 400,000 lives and displacing millions of innocent civilians.  While the U.S. and the international community have made some efforts to end...
Read Discuss (0) August 14, 2007

2,000 Miles for Africa

"...The initial inclination that this was going to be a trip filled with fun and adventure gave me a square kick in the butt upon climbing Mt. Katahdin (Maine's highest peak). My chins, knees, back, shoulders and quads were aching...
Read Discuss (0) August 9, 2007

...of shoulders left un-shrugged...and crisis kept un-abandoned.

thougts from Dan Haseltine...I received a wonderful email from a friend this week.  It was timely. My life has gotten quite overwhelming: As Live Earth plays on t.v. I’m wondering about environmental issues far more than ever before.  I’m wrestling...
Read Discuss (3) July 27, 2007

Jumping Outside the Box into Africa

“At 42 years old, having been raised in the church, I realized over the past six years I knew a lot about religion but not a lot about God,” said Bill Nelson of Countryside Christian Church in Michigan City, IN...
Read Discuss (0) July 23, 2007

Blood:Water Needs Your Input

Hey all we really need your help with this.  Please help us makeBlood:Water Mission better by filling out a very brief survey aboutyour experiences (or lack thereof) with Blood:Water.  We promise it's short and won't bite!Click Here to Begin ...
Read Discuss (3) July 12, 2007

The Role of Music in Social Justice: An Interview with Derek Webb

Singer-songwriter and avid Blood:Water Mission supporter, Derek Webb, speaks to the Washington Times about the "right things to rebel against" in this recent interview discussing his incorporation of often difficult to discuss themes in his work. Derek's recent release, The...
Read Discuss (0) July 2, 2007

You Say You Want a Revolution...

REVO is an expression and movement of love. It's a movement that seeks to inspire a generation to act for social justice. It's a movement that led me to believe and exist in love - to exist in a community...
Read Discuss (0) June 27, 2007

Miami Women's Group Has a Thirst For Change

A small group of women in Miami make a big impact "one bead at a time."   This group called "Thirst for Change" has been making earrings to raise funds for Blood:Water Mission to build wells in Africa and has now...
Read Discuss (0) June 21, 2007

Nashville Sounds & Fans Raise $8500 for BWM

The Nashville Sounds joined with Grammy Award-winning recording group Jars Of Clay and an impressive showing of fans to raise $8,500 for the band's Blood:Water Mission on Friday evening at Greer Stadium....
Read Discuss (1) June 6, 2007

Water Is Life

 Author: Barak Bruerd, 1000 Wells Project Manager (BWM)The human body is 70% water.  A 3% loss of water can reduce a person’s ability work by 20%.  For your average 60lb school-age child, that amounts to a standard nalgene-bottle full of...
Read Discuss (3) May 30, 2007

Matching and Transformation

by Aaron Sands, Director of Development and Donor Relations (BWM) It is humbling and encouraging to be on the Blood:Water Mission team, hearing stories every day of ways people have listened and responded in America, as well as the fantastic...
Read Discuss (0) May 17, 2007

Communities of Hope

Author: Barak Bruerd, 1000 Wells Project Manager (BWM) I’m in Africa.  It’s been 9 years since I last set foot on this continent and I must confess that I have missed it greatly.  There is a certain rhythm that pulses...
Read Discuss (1) May 9, 2007

Limited Edition T-Shirt from 70star7

We love to see the creative ways people engage in raising awareness and funds, and wanted to share about this limited-time opportunity.70 STAR 7 is back with another design: 70 shirts with this design are made available, and only 62...
Read Discuss (0) May 1, 2007

Boston, MA - David

I had never been to Beantown.  I was not there for long, but I loved what I saw....
Read Discuss (0) April 27, 2007

The Great Exchange

by Charlie Lowell of Jars of Clay (from January 2007)  Oimore! That’s “good day” in Luo, one of the many different tribes represented in Kenya. I’m in East Africa with my wife Sonja, and 6 other friends – a couple artists,...
Read Discuss (1) April 14, 2007

Washington, DC - Dave

We were in DC this past Thursday.   I personally had not been in a few years and it was great to be in the nation's capital.  So much history and so many monuments to the great men and women who...
Read Discuss (0) April 13, 2007

Toronto - David

I have been slightly overwhelmed with things lately. Being out on the road can be tiring, numbing and disruptive to perspective. Being forced to adapt to any new way of life would do the same things I suppose. And I...
Read Discuss (0) April 6, 2007

St. Catherines, Ontario - David

So every night that we have a hotel we do rock, paper scissors to determine who has to share a bed and who gets a bed to themselves.  Tonight Joe won.  But Matt came up with this crazy brain challenge...
Read Discuss (0) April 4, 2007

Peoria, IL - Joe

So I'm hanging out at the hotel with Dave here in Peoria, Illinois after one of the craziest and probably most memorable nights on the tour to date. Last night we were at the Peoria Civic Center for a unique...
Read Discuss (0) March 30, 2007

Peoria, IL - David

This is night number three here in Peoria, IL.  To be honest, even though we have had two shows since coming back from break, I am still getting acclimated to being back out here.  This transition is made even more...
Read Discuss (0) March 30, 2007

Sweet Sixteen

"I have always had this ridiculous notion that I have to do something “special” for my sixteenth birthday, a party or maybe a trip somewhere. I am from a family of nine, so such things aren’t done often, are usually...
Read Discuss (0) March 30, 2007

Back up and running...more postings today

We apologize for the delay...we're back up and running and will be posting later today. Thanks for checking in!...
Read Discuss (0) March 30, 2007

World Water Day

Today March 22nd is World Water Day. In 1992 this date was designated by the UN General Assembly as "World Water Day" to draw international attention to the critical lack of clean, safe drinking water worldwide. In recent years it...
Read Discuss (0) March 22, 2007

Canton, OH (Home)

Note to self... always save blog as a word document before trying to post on myspace.After typing up an historic and moving account of the days events, I foolishly lost it all due to an unknown error.  :?(  But here...
Read Discuss (0) March 15, 2007

Sioux Falls, SD

Well, it's the final day of the first leg of the Spring tour and I know that the three of us are ready to have a week off to re-energize and get excited for the second run of shows through...
Read Discuss (0) March 14, 2007

Fargo, ND

Yeah, that's right.  Fargo.  I never saw the movie but I've been to the town.  I had this impression of it being a small town, out in the middle of nowhere or something, but it was not....
Read Discuss (1) March 12, 2007

The Beauty of Africa

by Jena Lee, Executive Director BWMThere's something romantic about Africa. Throughout history, its people, its tragedies, its beauty and its wonders have caused outsiders to romanticize the continent. When Western explorers documented their first steps and journeys onto the shores...
Read Discuss (2) March 6, 2007

When One Member Weeps, We All Weep

I am a single mother of a teenage daughter and a dialysis nurse in a small rural community.  Several years ago, God called me to the field of nursing.  Not knowing what God had laid out for me, I courageously...
Read Discuss (0) March 6, 2007

Start Small, Love Big

After spending a summer in South Africa, and taking classes about the continent, I have never stopped wondering what I could do to help!...
Read Discuss (1) March 6, 2007

Passion '07 Awakens Massive Response

At this year's Passion '07 Conference held in Atlanta Georgia, around a thousand participants met and exceeded the challenge to "Do Something Now" by committing to bring clean water to villages in Africa both as individuals and as groups....
Read Discuss (0) March 6, 2007

Chibwe, Zambia

This village area has a population of about 800 people. The previous water sources were a hand dug well and a stream which dries up during the hot season. The broken hand pump had been in disrepair over three years....
Read Discuss (0) March 4, 2007

Walla Walla, WA - Learning the Ropes

Apparantly Walla Walla means water in a language other than English.  I have no clue which one or if that is even actually true.  But it is a good attention getter when you are working for a group that is...
Read Discuss (0) March 3, 2007

Why Good Men Do Nothing

by Gary Haugen, Founder International Justice Mission (IJM) I grew up with a great love for reading history -- and I used to wonder, how would I have fared in the great moral struggles of the past. Would I have...
Read Discuss (0) March 2, 2007

Adyaka Trading Centre & Abwong Village, Uganda

This small community of 60 people is transformed weekly when they hold a market every Tuesday drawing about 5,000 people. The only source of water had been an unprotected water area that is far too small and unclean. This area...
Read Discuss (0) February 28, 2007

On Route

February 24, 2007Once again in the skies, headed toward Denver, Colorado, after a quick morning flight from Nashville, TN to Atlanta, GA. It is day 4 of our adventure and David, Joe, and I are headed to Denver, so we...
Read Discuss (0) February 24, 2007

Blood Water Mission: One band's journey from Nashville to Africa

by Steve Garber, Director, The Washington InstituteWhy is it that some people see themselves as implicated in the way the world is, and isn't? In the way things are, and ought to be? There is nothing in the record deal...
Read Discuss (0) February 22, 2007

King and a Kingdom

From the feature interview of Relevant Magazine May/June 2006RELEVANT Magazine: What kind of venues are you playing? Derek Webb: It’s a total mix nowadays. One day will be a college, a neutral venue. I’ve played a fair share of clubs. There...
Read Discuss (0) January 29, 2007

Joe's Myspace Blog

January 26, 2007 EXPOSITION:  This entry comes from Joe's myspace blog, shortly after the B:W M team found out that they would be heading on the road with Jars of Clay to promote the vision and goals of the organization....
Read Discuss (0) January 26, 2007