The ONE Music Builds Tour Comes to Chicago!
Last week, as the ONE Music Builds Tour continued its travels across the country, we stopped in Chicago where the bands Switchfoot, Third Day, Jars of Clay and Robert Randolph and the Family Band supplied thousands of concert-goers with rockin’ tunes and the opportunity to learn about ONE.
An enthusiastic group of 13 volunteers showed up to work the ONE booth to spread the word about ONE’s mission to make poverty history and to recruit new outstanding volunteers like themselves. Armed with clipboards, ONE pamphlets and pockets filled with our signature white ONE wristbands, they set out to inform and sign-up the excited crowd.
Despite the periodic threat of rain, we were able to get nearly 500 people to sign the ONE Declaration, hundreds of which indicated they would be willing to volunteer in the future. By the end of the night, you couldn’t look left or right and not see one of our ONE wristbands on someone’s wrist. We succeeded in spreading awareness of ONE and we had a lot of fun doing it!
Be sure to keep your eyes and ears open for a Music Builds Tour stop near you!
-Christopher Berg, ONE Field Coordinator
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