Advent Conspiracy 2010 video – make THIS Christmas REALLY matter

Advent Conspiracy 2009 Thank You – new video from Advent Conspiracy and Living Water International

If you had a part in Advent Conspiracy this year, have a look at this video to see some of the amazing things your dollars made possible.  If you didn’t, have a look anyway and know that there are still millions of people in this world who do not have clean drinking water, and you and I can help change that.

Christmas [is] changing the world: latest video from Advent Conspiracy

This video is “hot off the press,” and tells the brief story of a team from Living Water International drilling a well in the jungles of Peru by hand.  Not digging a well, drilling a well by hand.  They started work on December 8, 2009 and had clean water on December 12, 2009.  Yeah!!

Enter the story [this means you]

I don’t know if anyone else can relate to this, but writing original, compelling blog posts is proving difficult when I’m scrambling trying to figure out how to pay my bills and my neighbor’s bills (see previous post).  So for now, and if you’re not sharing my current economic situation, I urge you to watch this video from Living Water/Advent Conspiracy and think about helping someone whose troubles make mine look like a walk in the park!

The incredible irony of Black Friday

Does it seem ironic to anyone else that the day after Thanksgiving is now known (in America at least) as Black Friday?  A day dedicated by many to the full expression of greed and materialism that our Christmas holiday has become.  Christmas – the holiday when we typically remember that Jesus was born.  In the fourth gospel the apostle John said this about Jesus, “In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”  (John 1:4, 5)  This is the same Jesus whose light still shines today, even in the darkness of a land where days like Black Friday are among the “holiest” of days.  And the same Jesus who told us not to lay up treasures on earth, but in heaven.

Here’s an earth-shattering announcement: You don’t have to join in the commercialism that Christmas has become.  Watch the video again, and then decide to help someone who is far less fortunate than you are this Christmas season.  Someone, for example, who has to get their drinking water from a mudhole.

To learn more about the Advent Conspiracy, click here.