Posts Tagged ‘Jars of Clay’
Telling Our STORY
When our co-founder, Jena Lee Nardella, was asked to speak about her recently released memoir, “One Thousand Wells,” at STORY, we jumped on the opportunity to be as involved as possible. STORY is an uncommon creativity conference that was not only held in Blood:Water’s office base of Nashville, Tenn., this year, but at the main…
Read MoreBlood:Water Takes a Pilgrimage
The inaugural year of the Pilgrimage Festival was one for the books! With three stages and an A-list lineup that included catalog acts such as Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson, the buzz leading up to the festival made involvement a hot commodity. Blood:Water was amply represented at the festival with a booth and a Lemon:Aid…
Read More“What is Next is What Was and What Is” — Reflections on a Book Tour
When Blood:Water first launched, co-founder Jena Lee Nardella spent hours on a tour bus with the band Jars of Clay. Eleven years later, lead singer and Blood:Water co-founder, Dan Haseltine, joins her on a tour across the country, helping champion her memoir, “One Thousand Wells.” Dan has written a guest post for Jena’s blog on what it…
Read MorePhoto Friday: Book Tour Launch
It’s been a whirlwind of a week at Blood:Water. Jena’s memoir, “One Thousand Wells,” released this week, which began the launch of her book tour. Jena, Jars of Clay’s Dan Haseltine, and other Blood:Water staff are now traveling around the country in 20 days. So for this Photo Friday, we wanted to share some highlights…
Read MoreJena Chats with Dan Haseltine Before They Hit the Road Again
We are just five days away from the release of co-founder Jena Lee Nardella’s memoir, “One Thousand Wells!” So place your preorder now and then check out Jena’s latest video blog. Today, she sits down with Dan Haseltine to get his impression of the book:
Read MoreWe’re Headed to a City Near You
Blood:Water co-founders, Jena Lee Nardella & Dan Haseltine of Jars of Clay, will be coming soon to a city near you! We hope you’ll save the date to join Jena and Dan for a discussion and signing of Jena’s new book, “One Thousand Wells,” being released August 25. UPCOMING EVENTS 8.24.15 – Nashville, TN 8.26.15…
Read MoreThrowback Thursday
In honor of Co-founder Jena Lee Nardella’s first book, “One Thousand Wells,” being released in August, we’re taking it back to the very early days of Blood:Water for this #throwbackthursday! Check out this photo of Jena with the Jars of Clay guys during the days when Jena joined them on the tour bus as they…
Read MorePhoto Friday: One Thousand Wells
Yesterday we announced our co-founder, Jena Lee Nardella, will be releasing her memoir, “One Thousand Wells,” August 25. The book is available for pre-order here. So today’s #PhotoFriday pulls a quote from the first chapter of her book, which is available for free here. Jena’s memoir is about her journey of compassion, growing up with…
Read MoreFinding Common Ground: Boerne, Texas, and Kaloko, Zambia
Tucked on the hillside of a landscape that more resembled a treed African savannah then the middle of Texas, our friends Steve and Nancye Drukker hosted more than 50 of their closest friends and family for a special Father’s Day house concert earlier this week in Boerne, Texas. It was apparent from the moment that…
Read MoreDig Deeper with Us
Building a community that works together to address the HIV/AIDS and water crises is the main tenet of the work we do in Africa. But building community isn’t something that stops in Africa; it is something that we strive to do here in the states as well. In order to do that, we try to…
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