Just a bit of an update on a project we did for our Diocesan Convention this past weekend. Working with the Environmental Commission, Social Justice Commission, Christian Ed, and ERD...we invited the parishes to participate in our Water Project...that is, to collect spare change in plastic individual water bottles to fund the building of wells in India, Latin America, and Africa. Those filled water bottles were to be taken to the parish churches All Saints Sunday to be blessed and then to be presented at the opening Eucharist of the Diocesan Convention November 8th. You should have seen the baskets and baskets of water bottles!
We literally broke the bank! That is...the change counting machine at the local bank broke counting all our spare change! The change machine will be repaired tomorrow and we will have the final count by the end of this week. We are quite certain that we have collected well over $20,000.00. The participation was awesome...something that children, teens, as well as the adults... all took part in this project.
When our group first met, we projected collecting enough to fund three wells...one in each of the above named countries. I was confident that we would do much more and WE DID! I keep telling folks in each talk I give...What can one person do? And then emphasize that when we have many ONE PERSONS
Submitted by a Friend of ER-D from the Diocese of Oregon
