Hey, is your ministry or church supporting Water Sunday during March 2012?
Should it be?
Water Sunday is an event organized to call attention to the fact that one child dies every 20 seconds from a lack of clean, drinkable water. The host, the Christian engineering relief and development ministry Water Missions International, estimates that more than a million children die each day from lack of safe drinking water.
"Approximately 884 million people around the world lack access to safe water," according to Water Missions International's website. "Waterborne illnesses result in the deaths of nearly 1.5 million children every year. This is the equivalent of 20 jumbo jets crashing every single day. . . ."
Water Missions International is hoping to interest at least 50 churches in raising at least $5,000 each, which would help implement clean water in at least 50 needy communities. According to Water Missions International's estimates, each $10 raised provides clean drinking water to at least one person.
For more information on this event and how you, your ministry or your congregation can help, visit Water Missions International's website at: www.watermissions.org/watersunday.
(March 22 is celebrated as World Water Day.)
Water Sunday from Water Missions on Vimeo
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