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Friday, August 3, 2007
"Amazing Life" Girls to support Blood:Water
Blume, a conference sponsored by Woman's Missionary Union in Kansas City, in which more than 3,000 teenage collegiate girls and leaders are challenged to have an "Amazing Life", is donating to Blood:Water Mission as part of the "5 Ways of Giving" iniciative, which consists in putting their faith in action by knowing about different issues and supporting ministries at the same time:

Jena Lee, executive director of Blood:Water Mission, a ministry founded by Christian rock band Jars of Clay to provide clean water to Africans, was on hand to describe the initiative to provide clean water to 1,000 villages.
Part of Blood:Water Mission's thrust is its "Two Weeks of Sacrifice" campaign to forgo everyday beverages such as soda or coffee and drink only tap water; each dollar of savings donated through the ministry can provide clean water to a villager for a year. After watching a video about the project, Cassie Short, a 10th-grader from First Baptist Church in Odessa, Mo., was challenged by "how far the [people] had to walk to get water and how dirty the water was."

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