Saving the World, One Bottle of Water at a Time

November 07, 2005

Lately I’ve been edging on stir-crazy, having been confined to Seminary for a year or so now. It’s a great place, really, but when you come here from a semester abroad in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala it seems so confining even though it’s not at all. No offense meant to Kentucky, Asbury or Wilmore, it’s simply that my semester abroad was a very big event in my life and Seminary is just a little bit different than that, mainly not so much travel included. Some days I wake up wanting to get on the first flight out of here to some uncharted place in the world.

Anyway, one of the big things I learned about on my semester abroad was how my actions change the rest of the world and how I should be taking part in the world, not just looking at my own life in isolation. I’ve been driving myself crazy attempting to figure out exactly what it is that I should be doing with the rest of my life and it just seems that each time I come up with an idea it’s so far out that it’s unachievable.

I’ve been learning all this amazing stuff about God and about missions, church planting (Ecclesiastical Botany as I have started to call it), worship design and everything inbetween. But at the same time learning about it just doesn’t always cut it. I want the application, which is often hard to see. The professors really do provide some practicality to the information but it doesn’t always relate to me and my particular situation.

I was very encouraged last night as I was reading the blog of a friend of mine, Peter, who wrote about this really cool non-profit organization called ZAO Water. Zao Water is a company that sells bottled water here in the states in order to use that money to provide clean drinking water for people in Africa.

Personally, I thought it was a great idea. When they write “you get water, they get water, everyone wins” it just makes sense to me. I have to give them credit for a great idea.