Here in south Pinellas County, Florida, we've been under a mandatory boil-water order for the last 36 hours. That's a half-million people. Seems a 4' diameter water main broke a few miles from our house.
They're talking Sunday for an all-clear.
We're fixed better than most - the RV fresh-water tank gives us all we need. But most people don't have that blessing, do they?
This Christmas outage reminds me of something that Ecclesia church in Houston, among others, started doing a few years ago. The statistic they quoted: If we took the amount of money Americans spend on makeup and put it toward providing clean water sources, everyone in the world could have clean, safe water. (Really? Wow!) The numbers on how many people die due to contaminated water are just insane.
So they gave water to the world instead of presents to each other. Not 100%, I'm sure, but wow. One between-the-lines Christian group that does this is called The Water Project, and the one Chris is Twittering on now is Living Water International. Maybe the next time you want to make a difference...here's a beauty.
One little non-coincidental footnote: Pastor Chris Seay was previously a minister to students at Baylor, founded University Baptist Church in there in Waco, and mentored an introverted, awkward guy named David Crowder. You think Chris is a leader? And how. Like the leader in Herbie's story.
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