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Cups for a Cause: Lemon:Aid Success Story
Our friend, Victoria, heard about Lemon:Aid on the radio, and decided she wanted to help people in Africa like her pen-pal, Petronious! After a late night building the stand and a hot Friday selling lemonade, she not only reached her fundraising goal of $100, but she exceeded it with the help of a generous matching…
Read MoreBlood:Water Book Club: “The Poisonwood Bible,” Section 6
Summary In this section of Book Five: Exodus, we see the Price family dealing with the loss of Ruth May. As soon as she dies, Orleanna has to keep moving, and marches straight out of Kilanga with her remaining daughters. When they finally reach Bulungu, Rachel finds Eeben Axelroot and leaves with him for South…
Read MoreShe’s Our Bachelor Bracket Master and Resident River Rat. Meet Lindsey.
As you know after meeting Aaron, Jake, Barak, Nadia, Katy, Erin, Kristin, Blake, and Audrey, all of our employees are unique, and Lindsey May, our accountant, is no exception. In fact, Lindsey can even make people see double–but more on that later. Lindsey grew up in Huntsville, Ala., and it is still the home of…
Read MoreBlood:Water Book Club: “The Poisonwood Bible,” Section 5
Summary In Book Four: Bel and the Serpent, the girls recount the things that were lost: the villages’ faith in Jesus, the peace in the community, Leah’s respect for her father and his preaching, and the life of dear Ruth May. When Tata Ndu chooses to utilize the white man’s invention of election to conduct…
Read MoreBuilding Relationships on a Philanthropic Journey
As is the case for the majority of internships, I really didn’t know what to expect coming into the position as the engagement intern for Blood:Water. You can read the internship description, but those words often don’t do the actual living experience justice. When I read the engagement internship description and talked with the engagement…
Read MoreBlood:Water Book Club: “The Poisonwood Bible,” Section 4
Summary In the second half of Book Three: The Judges, Tata Ndu offers to marry Rachel, so the Prices arrange an agreement with Eeben Axelroot to make people think he and Rachel are engaged. Even Nathan has learned that when Tata Ndu presents an idea, it has already been decided upon by the entire village…
Read MoreClassy Collaborative: A Week Among Incredible Social Innovators
Two weeks ago today, I flew home to Nashville, Tenn., after attending the Collaborative conference in Boston, Mass. Blood:Water was nominated as a Classy Awards finalist for our programming in the integration of HIV/AIDS and WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), and I was fortunate enough to represent our team along with our interim executive director,…
Read MoreBlood:Water Book Club: “The Poisonwood Bible,” Section 3
Summary In Book Three: Judges, we see the slow start of an uprising against Reverend Price’s tyranny. The section begins with Orleanna’s point of view, and she shares exactly how Reverend Price came to be a religious extremist instead of the handsome preacher she first met. His involvement in World War II, and his guilt…
Read MoreResponding to a Beloved Friend’s Dream
Excerpt from “One Thousand Wells”: “As Milton, Joel, and I stood upon the expanse of the barren land, we could see it. We could see the clinic that would bring hope to a community wrought with loss. A place that would save lives and equip men, women, and children with knowledge, health care, and medicine.…
Read MoreBlood:Water Book Club: “The Poisonwood Bible,” Section 2
Summary Book Two: The Revelation raises the stakes for the characters by turning each of their desires on their heads. Leah wants her father’s approval; he continually punishes her. Rachel wants to go home and be a 20th century teenager; she’s left to swelter in the heat of the Congo. Ruth May wants to have…
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