Posts Tagged ‘Jena Lee Nardella’
Blood:Water Book Club: “One Thousand Wells,” Section 4
Summary Jena’s sense of defeat continues as she faces more brokenness in the world, and she starts to question if justice is really worth fighting for. As she begins to look for a way to step out of Blood:Water, thinking she can no longer fight against the intense brokenness of this world, her husband, James,…
Read MoreBlood:Water Book Club: “One Thousand Wells,” Section 3
Summary Upon attending the funeral of a college friend in Lwala, Kenya, Jena learns about the practice of ignoring grief due to the high frequency of death in the community. She also witnesses extreme cultural differences when she spends time with women in the village–including the women’s lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS, the abuse the…
Read MoreBlood:Water Book Club: “One Thousand Wells,” Section 2
Summary After touring with Jars of Clay for a while, Jena Lee Nardella flew to Kenya with Joel, a Blood:Water volunteer to investigate possible partners for Blood:Water and strategize for the 1000 Wells Project. While in Kenya, Jena and Joel learned the importance of doing work with the poor community, not for them; that it…
Read MoreBlood:Water Book Club: “One Thousand Wells,” Section 1
Summary In the first section of “One Thousand Wells,” we begin to understand Jena’s sheltered childhood and what evolved from her early life in the Bay Area and Colorado. Her first experience with poverty marked her life forever, and it was not experienced in Africa. Instead, it was something most see daily in Union Square–a…
Read MoreMorning Muse
“Let us remember that the work of justice is a long-suffering narrative- both for the individuals who are today enduring the brunt of the world’s worst injustices and for people of faith committed to moving the needle.” Martin Luther King, Jr. rightfully noted, “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal…
Read MoreTelling 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 MoreJoin Our Book Club!
With the recent release of co-founder Jena Lee Nardella’s first memoir, “One Thousand Wells,” we’ve been talking a lot about books. So that made us think – we should start a Blood:Water Book Club! Since the founding days of Blood:Water, so much of the culture formed as staff read the same books, discussing and learning…
Read MoreMiss the Book Tour? Catch It Here.
If you weren’t able to join us on the “One Thousand Wells” book tour, we have good news. Our friends at Tattered Cover-Colfax in Denver, Colo., recorded the entire event there, and it’s now available as a podcast! Listen as co-founder Jena Lee Nardella reads segments from her memoir, and shares about the journey that…
Read MorePhoto Friday: West Coast Book Tour
We kicked off the West Coast leg of the “One Thousand Wells” book tour in Seattle last night. A great crowd showed up at the University Book Store, including our co-founder, Jena Lee Nardella’s college roommates, camp buddies, former Blood:Water employees, and lot of loyal Blood:Water supporters. But the guests of honor were Jena’s parents,…
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…
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