Be the Movement: How to become a part of a bigger story
Last year, three young moms felt stirred to become a part of a bigger story. Born out of a shared knowledge and concern about the world water crisis, Sally, Leslie and Cara imagined tangible ways that they could play a part in truly helping. Time together each week at the soccer field where their kids play together fostered the idea that was to become their step to action.
Recognizing their community of little athletes and their parents, they designed and created water bottles to sell to their friends and friends of friends and everyone at the soccer field. On each water bottle was printed the simple message, "This bottle helped bring clean water to a village in Rwanda," (based on Blood:Water's highlighted work being done there at the time). They would give the money from the sales of each bottle to Blood:Water, and if every water bottle they ordered sold, they would raise enough to help complete an entire water project in a Rwandan community.
As the project took off, they even welcomed other moms and friends to help to sell some alongside them. The entire effort was solely relational - neighbor-to-neighbor, with the girls telling friends, "We don't have a website, a storefront, or even an official name. This is a boxes-in-the-basement, selling out-of-the-trunk-of-our-cars kind of effort."
"We knew the issue is basic, yet expansive: the lack of clean water is killing people daily. While we didn't feel called to pack up our families and move across the world to start digging wells, we knew that we had resources in our little pockets of Nashville that could make an impact in communities across the globe."
Recognizing their community of little athletes and their parents, they designed and created water bottles to sell to their friends and friends of friends and everyone at the soccer field. On each water bottle was printed the simple message, "This bottle helped bring clean water to a village in Rwanda," (based on Blood:Water's highlighted work being done there at the time). They would give the money from the sales of each bottle to Blood:Water, and if every water bottle they ordered sold, they would raise enough to help complete an entire water project in a Rwandan community. As the project took off, they even welcomed other moms and friends to help to sell some alongside them. The entire effort was solely relational - neighbor-to-neighbor, with the girls telling friends, "We don't have a website, a storefront, or even an official name. This is a boxes-in-the-basement, selling out-of-the-trunk-of-our-cars kind of effort."
Find out how you can create an effort like Sally, Leslie and Cara by visiting www.bloodwatermission.com/bethemovement
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