DollarforaDrink

Well, as the title says, I received the $1,000 check from Alex and Brett Harris today! Adding that to the extra thousand dollars we have received, we have over $10,000, which is $2,000 over our goal! I'm just... nearly speechless! The Lord has been so good to us throughout the entire process, I credit him with the success in this project.

In case you are wondering what will be done with the "extra" $2,000, I will be giving it all to Mr. Palmer and BGR. Here is a quote from Mr. Palmer from an e-mail he sent to me recently:

"Our estimation is about USD $8,000 per well. In actuality, some wells will cost more and some less; the $8,000 is just an average figure. For instance, if a well goes extra deep (due to water table depth in the drilling area), it might cost more than $10,000+. If the drillers hit a good area (shallow water table), the individual well might only cost 6 to 7 thousand. . . . No matter how much money DFaD sends to BGR for water in DarFur, 100% will be used for wells.…

This actually happened a few days ago, but we have now reached the Dollar for a Drink goal of $8,000! The Lord has been so good to me throughout this endeavor, and money is still coming in. I would like to thank all of you who helped out in this project, it would not have been possible without you all!

I am planning on altering the front page once I get more info on where the well is going in and other such info. It's been an exciting adventure, thanks again! :D

To begin with, this blog entry is a day late. The events I will be describing (Until I say otherwise) will have happened yesterday.

First of all, Joshua Hays, Rebecca Poe (Joshua's Fiance), Matt Elia and I had a promotional event yesterday in Union's SUB building (Student Union Building, it's where the cafeteria is). The basic plan was this: Joshua had gone out and bought a rather large amount of plastic bathroom cups, and we used these cups as an illustration of one of our statistics: Every 15 seconds a child dies of a water-borne disease. To represent this stat, we took turns placing cups along the wall all the way down the hallway every 15 seconds; each cup to represent a death. We went from a little before ten o'clock to a little after one o'clock. By the end, it was really quite sobering. We also had some papers laid along the hall informing others of what we were doing, and Matt had also printed out a bunch of flyers to hand to people as they were passing. Seeing as we were…