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. The Ride:Well Tour will take place from June 4 - July 28. No previous biking experience is required. This is a great opportunity to "unplug" from life and advocate for our African friends in need. Don't miss this opportunity!

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PS - According to a recent blog entry, Jars of Clay and Third Day raised $75,000 for Blood:Water during last month's Christmas tour! Click here to read more.

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The MySpace community is a fertile place to grow the seeds of justice, compassion, love and action, and to help people see that their story is ready for the chapter about how each one of us changes the world." -- Humbly yours, Dan Haseltine of Jars of Clay (founder- Blood:Water Mission)

Jars' Blood:Water won the MySpace Impact Award for the month of December 2007. More info here.
Congrats to Blood:Water and thanks to all the voters!

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As mentioned in the latest JOC's official newsletter, Jars' non-profit organization, Blood:Water Mission, was voted as a finalist for the MySpace Impact Awards.

These awards were started with the idea of promote and help non-profit organizations to take their word out and support them financially. As part of the awards, the winner will recieve a $10,000 donation, media promo in MySpace.com, featured placement on the Impact Awards community page for one month from the date of the announcement of the winner, featured placement in the MySpace monthly newsletter (which goes out to all active MySpace users) and a bulletin announcing the Impact Awards winner to the community.

If you have a MySpace user account, you can show your support and vote once a day (everyday until Chrismtas) and feel good about it!
Past winners include "The One Campaign" (partner of BWM) and "To Write Love on Her Arms" (Switchfoot's and Anberlin's support organization).

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Here is some footage from Blood:Water Mission and the trip its staff, Dan and Steve had back in October 2007.

Rwanda


Kenya

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Here is an article in which Dan talks about the focus of Blood:Water Mission and how they are achieving their goals, there is also some talk about Christmas Songs and The Magnicifent Me book.

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Today, in Steve's new post at Jars blog, he revealed about his trip to Africa with Dan and Jena Lee, Blood:Water's director. He also gave thanks to all fans that went to the shows at the West coast.

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Sorry we posted this so late, but if you read this message before 11PM CST, click here and help Blood Water Mission win $1,000 to help build wells through facebook.

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This one's for our friends in West Virginia:

"A 5k run/walk this weekend will raise money for clean water in Africa. The Crew Community Church is planning the run for 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11. Proceeds from the event will raise money for Blood-Water Mission, a charity that helps provide clean water in Africa."

For a full article on the event, click here. Thanks to ctaylor for the heads up.

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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."

Read the article here.

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Here's a quick recap of the Air1 interview this morning:

- Steve, Charlie, and Matt were interviewed. Dan was on vocal rest due to an illness.
- The title of Dan's children's book is Magnificent Me, and it will be released in September to major bookstores (thanks to Jarchive's own Lizzy "inajar" for asking!).
- There is a Blood:Water tie-in with the searchwithjars website, so keep searching!
- Ladies, Gabe Ruschival is single.
- The band discussed the studio atmosphere for recording Christmas Songs.
- The full recording of the new song Peace is Here was aired
- The band played impromptu sing-along versions of Flood, Love Song For A Savior, and Dead Man with Charlie on piano and Steve on "mouth trumpet." The DJ's did their best to provide lead vocals.
- Steve and Charlie shared a few thoughts on Lindsay Lohan, and how every human can identify on some level with Lohan's plight. Charlie commented on the popular tendency intead to ostracize and judge Lohan as a means of self-reassurement (i.e. "Thank God I'm not Lindsay Lohan this week!"). Steve reminded listeners that there is no "sliding scale" when it comes to the Gospel, and "we all have the same need."
- The band discussed Blood:Water Mission's "two rescues:" for those in need from a lack of rescources, and for Americans from trivia in the light of what really matters.
- The band likes iPhones, but they think they're too expensive
- When asked about whether Harry Potter was acceptable reading, the band shared how they believe the truth of the Gospel can be reflected in all kinds of art, Christian or not. They stressed parents' responsiblility to develop "tools of discernment" in a child for when they are presented with something contrary to their beliefs.
- The band asked for prayers for Dan, who has an ear, nose, and throat infection.
- The band reiterated that $1 provides clean water for one African for a year.

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For villagers, it would mean never again having to walk miles in the dark to find help for the sick.
But the clinic, off to such a good start, never opened. Ochieng, caught up in the middle of medical school, ran out of time and money.
That's how his story ended in 2006, but it turns out, it was just beginning.
First came help from the rock band Jars of Clay and its nonprofit organization BloodWater Mission...

For the full article, click here.

A follow-up feature is available here.

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