A Tremendous Opportunity.....And We Need YOUR Help!!!

The Dirty Roots Revolution is pleased to welcome the high school youth group from the United Methodist Church in Columbia City, Indiana.

The group, consisting of about 20 students, six church volunteers, and 4 DRR volunteers, will spend a week carrying out a variety of service projects and learning about a variety of causes/issues.
We are being joined in this endeavor by Project Restore, Lots of Drops, and International Crisis Aid – three non-profit organizations doing work that we believe in and support every chance we get. Please see the bottom of this note for more info on each of them…

This is a tremendous opportunity for everyone involved. For the students, they’ll learn a lot and have the opportunity to make a difference with and for these groups in a tangible way. For the groups, they’ll have a new audience to share their mission with and they’ll benefit from some free labor for the week.
For the Dirty Roots Revolution it is a chance to share our message with a new audience. It is also a great way to test what may be a big part of our ministry as we move into the future.

A couple of physical needs have presented themselves as part of this endeavor. Would you please consider helping us with them?

1) One of the days we will stage a “water walk” for the kids. Access to clean water is one of the most pressing issues in our world today. 1 out of every 6 people on this earth lack access to clean drinking water. Thousands of them die each day from preventable diseases they caught from their water. A large percentage of the global population, are forced to walk a few miles to access water (not necessarily even clean water) and bring it back to their home. So…one day, everyone in our group will walk a mile with two empty gallon-sized milk jugs. We’ll reach the Mississippi River after the mile walk, fill the jugs with water, and walk back to our “home base”, each carrying two gallons of water. The event is carried out mostly silently, so participants can reflect on what the event represents
OUR NEED: We need MANY, MANY gallon-sized milk jugs (empty and clean, please).

2) We are FINALLY ready to renovate the garage at the home of DRR Director Ryan Mifflin. This garage space is already being used for DRR storage, but the renovation will allow us to have a more organized and useful space. We’ll keep all of the supplies for our weekly Homeless Outreach there, as well as all of our office supplies. We have a very generous supporter of the DRR who has donated time and materials to design and build shelving in the garage. The youth group will join us in Greenville for one day of their trip to help us with the renovation.
OUR NEED: We need several Rubbermaid-style storage totes to adequately organize our Homeless Outreach supplies.

If you can help with either of these needs, please bring your contributions to 615 East Oak St. by Sunday evening, July 4th.

We would GREATLY appreciate your prayers in association with this event. Please pray for a good week for everyone involved…Please pray for safety for everyone involved (including safe travels for the group from Indiana)…Please pray for the various ministries involved in the event – that they would be blessed by their involvement…Please pray for all of the participants – that their lives would be impacted as God wants…And please pray for what this event may mean for the DRR (again, endeavors like this could be an area we focus on as part of our future).

WE’D ALSO LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO OUR NEXT “REVOLUTION THROUGH COMMUNITY “ EVENT ON THUSDAY, JULY 8TH AT 7 P.M. IN THE GREENVILLE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH FAMILY LIFE CENTER. THAT EVENT WILL SERVE AS THE CONCLUSION TO OUR WEEK-LONG MISSION EVENT. WE’LL SHARE STORIES FROM THE WEEK AND MUCH MORE…..WE’LL HAVE MORE INFO COMING SOON.

INFO ON THE MINISTRIES HELPING US WITH THIS EVENT:

LOTS OF DROPS (www.LotsOfDrops.org)
Catherine Weyers is a Dirty Roots Revolution volunteer from the original days of the group. During her senior year at Greenville College, she compiled this website as the culmination of her departmental honors research on the Church’s response to the international water crisis. She became interested in this topic when she heard the statistic that every 10-15 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness. As a soon-to-be medical student, she began to see the treatment and prevention of water-related diseases to be one of the most primitive and wide-scale opportunities in the medical field. Through time in the Scriptures, particularly in Matthew 25, the prophets, and throughout the gospels, she began to be challenged by God’s imperative that His people take care of those less fortunate than themselves. She hopes that by visiting this site, you are challenged by the staggering statistics and stories, and that you take the opportunity to be involved in the life-changing opportunity to provide life-giving water.

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID (www.CrisisAid.org)
International Crisis Aid's mission is to assist in sustaining life, bring encouragement to those suffering and collaborate with other relief organizations in bringing necessary foods, materials and medicines to people in times of crisis, particularly where life and death situations exist. Additionally, we attempt to bring public awareness to these situations and to solicit citizen involvement whenever and wherever possible. All assistance and resources are traditionally secured in the country of need when possible, so as to develop relations with the local business people and foster a true spirit of cooperation. Demonstrating God's love and care for people is our highest and most cherished goal. To accomplish this vision we will continue to target our efforts in "no-go zones" where other organizations cannot or will not go. Frequently this means taking on escalated risks. We feel that these risks are a small price to pay in a game where the stakes are so high: literally, life and death.

PROJECT RESTORE (www.project-restore.org)
Project Restore helps relieve the suffering and oppression that overwhelms underprivileged individuals and communities. By focusing on four key issues, we promote self-sustainable, prosperous communities here and around the world. Our four areas of focus are Clean Water, Education, Hunger, and Healthcare.