Recently, the White House hosted an online Q&A session on innovation for global development. Since the subject is a passion of mine, I was immediately prompted to submit a question to USAID Administrator Dr. Raj Shah.

Listen to Joe’s question here:

I try to do all that I can to mobilize faith-based institutions with congregations in Africa to get involved in serving their communities through development. I have seen examples of this on a small scale in Kenya, where one particular church denomination is utilizing local congregations to teach and train Kenyan nationals in areas such as agriculture and nutrition.

A highly organized network of 4,000 national churches is already in place, with property available to use for development education and training. The facilities could also be used as food distribution centers and medical clinics. The possibilities are endless.

This passion of mine led me to ask the question, “How can faith-based organizations with congregations in Africa be used as training facilities for the latest in development technology?” I was thrilled that my question was chosen, but even more encouraging was the response from Dr. Shah and Gayle Smith, special assistant to the President and senior director of the National Security Council.

In short, Dr. Shah explained that faith-based organizations currently play an important role in the developing world, citing an example of one congregation, Saddleback Church, which has sent more than 14,000 workers on development and health-oriented missions to Africa. If one congregation is capable of this, what could we do collectively as people of faith? Dr. Shah added that right now in Nairobi, Kenya, people living in extreme poverty are most likely already getting their healthcare and education from an institution of faith.

Gayle Smith added that networks of churches and other religious institutions are extremely valuable not only as providers of bed nets for malaria prevention, but also as educators on the proper use of these life-saving tools.

In summary, I was greatly encouraged to hear that these types of community partnerships are highly successful, and it further ignited my passion to mobilize congregations to get engaged in development projects overseas. What can we do as people of faith, moving forward, to make a profound impact on our world? As you can see, the possibilities are endless.

I grew up in West Africa. I lived in Togo and la Côte D’Ivoire until I was 14 years old. Ever since then, I always wanted to come back. Africa gets in your blood, and stays forever like malaria. That is cliché, but true. I heard about CURE and the great work they do through a friend, so when the opportunity to come to Niger came up, I jumped at it. We jumped at it, I should say. My wife, who works here with me, is actually much more jumpy than I am.

The CURE hospital is primarily a children’s hospital, and we specialize in treating burn victims and children with cleft lip or cleft palate and clubfoot. As spiritual director, I provide spiritual and emotional support to the patients and staff at the hospital. In practice, this can mean many different things. My job description is pretty vague, and purposely so, I think, because it is hard to define what I do. I work very closely with the hospital’s social worker in trying to determine what the needs of our patients are and what we can do to help. Giving a child a life-changing, life-saving surgery is a big deal, but I am realizing more and more that often, it is just scratching the surface.

For example, consider this (hypothetical but very typical) case: A mother of a child with cleft lip lives in a village a couple hundred kilometers from Niamey. She hears about our hospital, decides to come. She gathers together all the money she can for the trip; maybe she sells a few chickens, or some roasted peanuts. Usually, it does not amount to very much. She is not used to handling money anyway. She comes to the hospital and her child is treated, but she learns that they have to stay in the hospital for three weeks. She also learns that the child will be fed, but she will have to feed herself. Her money runs out after the first week, and she has nothing to feed her other baby (the one that is always on her back) or herself. Also, it is cold at night and her child does not have anything warm to wear.

So we try and figure out how we can help, aside from the medical care that we provide. There are so many things that I would have never thought of, and I am learning new things all the time. There are also a lot of emotional issues to deal with, for the patients and for their family members. People with disabilities are viewed with suspicion, discriminated against and generally mistreated. Usually people say that their condition is because of some sin they committed, or the result of a curse someone put on them. Life is very difficult even for people that are totally healthy in Niger, for the sick and disabled it is nearly unbearable.

They are suffering physically, but often they are also traumatized by the way they have been treated. Having a disabled child is a burden for the whole family, and community, in many different ways. Not least among them is the financial burden it represents. It is another mouth to feed, and usually one that cannot work. The surgeries we provide are very literally helping people get back on their feet, back to a normal, productive life, and back to work. They alleviate a real burden, which frees up resources for other things, and the impact of these operations is felt well beyond the patient and immediate family.

The culture in Niger is very communal. When you talk to someone, you are not just talking to them, you are talking to their whole family, their whole village, their whole tribe. The same goes for healing. When a child is brought to the hospital and receives treatment, it is not just the child that is healed. The child’s family is healed as well, and their whole community is blessed by it. Almost every time we talk to parents after their child has been healed, their first reaction is, “Wait until we get back home and everyone sees this!”
Everything and everyone is connected.

But more importantly, at CURE, we try to encourage and empower people, even as we offer them help. We do this by asking the patients and their families to contribute towards their own healing. We ask them to pay for their surgery if they can. If they cannot pay for all of it, we ask them to pay for a part of it. Even if it is a tiny fraction of the real cost, it makes a difference, for us and for them. Even if they cannot pay anything at all, they are still expected to contribute in other ways. They have to follow the post-op instructions from the doctor (which can be quite extensive and can take months, especially with the clubfoot cases). They have to come to their follow up appointments. They have to take their medicine. Sometimes they even have to change the dressing, etc.

The point is, they are involved in the process. They come to our hospital for help, but not for a handout. They don’t want a handout. They come to us for help, but we try to give them a chance to help themselves.

To sum it up, I love my job. Basically, I am here to welcome those who are usually unwelcome, to care for the uncared for, and to love the unloved. I am always blown away by how generous the Nigerien people are.

Even if they have nothing, they will share with you the little they do have. And they are really full of joy. Niger may be one of the world’s poorest countries, but they have a wealth of natural resources: smiles, handshakes, laughter and general friendliness abound. Also, it seems to me like they really embrace the fullness of life, both the good and the bad. They don’t ignore the aspects of life that are difficult. You can’t when you live in a place like this, where signs of poverty and hardship are everywhere, and drought and famine are common. But they also don’t dwell on the hardship. They don’t sit around feeling sorry for themselves, letting hopelessness set in. They take the good with the bad because they recognize that life is filled with both good and bad.

Read more about Josh and Julie’s life in Niger on their blog, http://joshjulieblog.wordpress.com/.

Saturday morning was incredible. Braving construction chaos and downtown parking, a group of 25 interested (and interesting) everyday citizens of Washington State converged in Tacoma to attend a ONE Faith workshop with Jonathan Young, our regional field director and Adam Phillips, manager of faith advocacy at ONE.

We learned about initiatives for global health and poverty relief, and how these things relate to our faith communities. Our goal for the morning? To come away with at least one practical thing a faith community could do to make a difference in the life of one of the 1.5 billion people living in extreme poverty.

People of faith across the nation gather weekly, in our various communities of faith, to worship and to learn more about loving God and loving our neighbors. Working for the end of poverty, and its catastrophic effects, is a powerful way of showing love and reaching out to our neighbors all over the world… thankfully ONE provides a great channel for this expression.

With ideas ranging from participation in ONE Sabbath, congressional letter writing campaigns, partnering with other like-minded organizations, and engaging with local political leaders, we came away with practical tools to strengthen our advocacy skills and great new friendships.

As part of our advocacy training, we discussed the 2012 budget process. Many of us were amazed to learn that our local representative, Congressman Norm Dicks, (WA-6), is a leader on the powerful House Committee on Appropriations. This committee essentially cashes the president’s check for the entire US budget. We were thrilled to learn that he is a longtime champion of fighting poverty, especially saving the lives of mothers and young children.

Gratitude is a very important part of faith, so we were delighted to write letters expressing our appreciation to Congressman Dicks, celebrating his heroic work ensuring that life-saving development assistance programs were not gutted in the final FY12 appropriations bill.

We are especially thankful for his work to help save the Global Fund’s allocation, to enable it continue to provide lifesaving treatment for millions of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis patients, provide bed nets to prevent malaria, and develop health systems in poor nations that serve those in need. We are proud of the work our Congressman is doing and glad to give our support!

It was an incredible morning. It is an incredible mission. Join us as we love our neighbors by working to make poverty history. Join ONE and make a difference.

-ONE member Heather James, Washington

At ONE, we believe that faith is a major driving force behind social change. And that’s why we spearheaded a number of campaigns this year to help motivate and mobilize faith communities to take action on behalf of the world’s poorest people.

Earlier this year, we launched Lazarus Sunday, a nationwide event to help raise awareness for HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 1,000 faith communities took part. Faith leaders aired “The Lazarus Effect,” a documentary about AIDS, at church services, and touched on ONE’s issues during their sermons.

We traveled with the David Crowder*Band, a Christian rock group, on their final tour to recruit anti-poverty advocates. For weeks, ONE Organizer Seth Philpott and his volunteers tabled at shows to spread the word about our mission. Their hard work paid off — they signed up nearly 10,000 new members from the tour!

To remind ONE members about the famine in the Horn of Africa during the holiday season, we launched our ONE Sabbath Thanksgiving event. More than 200 faith communities from across the world signed up to help combat the devastating drought. Before the event took place, USAID Administrator Raj Shah participated in an exclusive conference call with ONE members of faith to discuss the Horn of Africa situation.

What else happened this year? We recruited 40 new regional faith leaders, distributed faith action guides for the Ramadan and Sukkot holidays, and launched a lovely series of essays on Thanksgiving from ONE members of all faiths.

To those who participated in Faith at ONE events and activities this year, thank you. We’ve got lots more in store next year, so stay tuned!

I’m sitting in a mostly quiet airport eating an international dinner (read: China Panda), trying to remember names and faces and which comments went with the particular faces and names I could remember with a little help from the pocket full of new business cards I acquired. My first thought is, “The Ronald Reagan Airport has great lighting.” My second thought, which has equally little to do with my day is, “I wish the Dunkin Donuts was still open.” But my third thought, the one that has been rattling around in my head since 6:30 a.m., was, “How do you kill a dragon?”

You see, as I write this, I am winding down from a day spent wandering the halls of the Senate, as part of a World AIDS Day initiative. I started my morning with a walk to George Washington University interrupted by a detour into the strategically located Starbucks across from the Jack Morton building where we were going to gather.

The man who stepped in line behind me was obviously a regular, and well-known. I was able to surmise that he was the manager of the building where ONE and (RED)’s World AIDS Day event was being held. I ordered my drink, and stepped toward the bar.

“Do you think you might meet him?” Someone was speaking to the “regular” who managed the building.

In a space about to be inhabited by President Obama, President Kikwete of Tanzania, Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola Company, President Clinton and President Bush, it was obvious who they were speaking of… Bono.

It is a strange social economy we find ourselves in these days. I smiled, grabbed my drink, and stepped back out into the cool morning air.

I arrived just as the Secret Service and police forces were making their final security sweep of the building. It is habitual for me to show up early for events such as this. Not just a little early, more like hours before. I do it when I speak, and apparently, I do it when I am just attending.

The event was titled, “The Beginning of the End of AIDS.” It was taken from an impassioned speech given by Senator Hillary Clinton a few weeks earlier, where she brought to light the new and hopeful scientific research surrounding HIV/AIDS treatment and awareness.

The big shocker was that it turns out that treatment IS prevention. The antiretroviral drug regimen actually reduces the virus to a form that is almost non-transmittable, reducing the likelihood of sexual transmission by 96 percent!

This is AMAZING news. It means that the very same drugs that keep people with AIDS alive, is also stopping the transmission of the disease. And what this means is that we may simply be generations away from the end of AIDS.

Last summer, I read J.R.R. Tolkien’s, “The Hobbit,” to my son. It began with a few chapters and then a short encouragement from me often ending in the phrase, “It gets really good later.” It was hard to keep his attention for a bit of the set up, the development of the story and characters. It was hard to remember who all the primary characters were, and not get them mixed up. I found myself backtracking quite a bit so that we could remember which elves were which, what weapons they carried, and why they were significant to the story. “Let’s keep reading… the part with the dragon is coming up,” I would say.

The descriptions of carnage finally came as we read pages describing entire mountains reduced to embers, and whole villages full of people simply gone and the invasion of fear and loss of joy and wealth. It reminded me of something else.

I am not a child of wizardry. I wasn’t raised on fantasy stories. I have never owned a set of recklessly multi-sided dice. But I have read a few novels that seem consistent in their portrayal of dragons. They are superior in intelligence and cunning, and often described as “flying death.” They are able to adapt to the skills and methods of their victims. They are relentless, and indiscriminate in their thirst for wealth and blood. They are difficult to kill. And once they have laid claim to a land and its people, the outlook is most definitely grim.

AIDS has been around for 30 years. In 30 years, it has been responsible for 30 million funerals. When the disease was first discovered, it didn’t even have a name. No one was quite sure what to do with a virus that attacked the immune system and was capable of morphing to adapt to treatments.

It was reported as GRID, and also as, “the gay cancer.” Finally it became, “AIDS”. Whatever it was called, it meant certain death. And that was just the beginning. It wasn’t just a disease that affected the body. It was a carrier of fear.

Human beings are strange and complex things. Without understanding, we tend to react out of fear. We have a bent to want to destroy what we do not understand, even if the act of destruction is more time consuming and costly than the time invested in studying or knowing. We don’t like what we can’t explain. If we don’t know what causes a disease, how can we trust the people around us to keep such a thing from spreading?

Fear became stigma and in its path are millions of lives that have been scorched and reduced to embers simply because they were thought to be HIV-positive. People were driven from their families, their workplaces and their homes and communities. They were not allowed to touch their children, or come to their churches. They were left for dead, far before the disease had even begun to stake claim.

Dragons like gold. This was something else I learned from, “The Hobbit.” They can smell gold, and they have a well-developed instinct to horde it. They have no use for it in the economic sense. They simply want to take it from the homes and coffers of their victims. They don’t want just a portion, but every last galleon or coin. Dragon’s sleep on the gold, they brush their hardened scales against it, and let it drip from between their callous talons. It represents a bleeding of sorts of the villages where a dragon’s focus rests. It is a tangible stripping away of power and place. Without a form of wealth, the basic things needed for survival become harder to come by. Villages collapse for lack of productivity that devolves into lack of shelter, food, education and hope. Darkness sets in, and with it, the poison that brings men and women to give up entirely.

Billions of dollars have been spent on HIV/AIDS. It is just the necessary path leading from nothing to understanding. It costs money to fail and then to fail again, until eventually the desired outcome presents itself. I have been in many conversations with skeptics who are quick to remind me that many people have made a lot of money in the, “AIDS business.” And that this is money we will never see again.

“How do we kill it? How do we get close enough to spy a weakness, or a soft spot where we can let our swords or arrows burrow deeply beneath its scales? Does it have a weakness?” These are the questions that the bravest of knights were plagued to answer.

I imagine that the act of killing a dragon could never truly be a solitary act. Perhaps if dragons were soft, meek things, the first person to come upon such a beast might also be the one responsible for immediately destroying it. But as we understand, dragons are not such things.

With breath strained from the act of running for dear life, and choked by overwhelming fear, we hear countless descriptions of the evil lurking before us. Each encounter takes on greater risk, and a clearer picture of what this “thing” is.

Until one day, a weakness is discovered. In “The Hobbit,” the weakness was a soft spot on the underbelly of Smog.

The US through the incredible formation of PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), and the building of the Global Fund, is responsible for providing antiretroviral drugs to more than 4 million people. Those treatments have allowed us to get very close to HIV/AIDS. We have found a weakness.

I can picture the mixed emotions of a village tormented by a dragon when they find out that such a creature has a weakness. It would be a collision of new hope with old defeatism. It would be a conscious effort to clear the mind and focus on the task at hand. People have been laid to waste. They are tired and weary. But at this moment when they are most vulnerable and their enemy is most vulnerable it becomes a choice of who has the soul strength to dig in and make a final stand.

The fight against AIDS is not sexy anymore. It isn’t the hip cause of the month, or media saturating conversation on our television sets. The people and organizations who’ve joined the fight seeking some kind of pittance of glory have fallen away leaving only those of us who share some inherent purpose woven deeply in our souls for wanting this disease to meet its end. We are weary. We have been ravaged by cynicism and disappointment. And we are hearing the words, “The Beginning of the End of AIDS.” We are letting the words roll over in our heads, “We found a weakness.”

We now know that the ARV treatments reduce the potential transmission of the virus by 96 percent. If you add the health benefits of male circumcision and the wonder drugs that prevent mother to child transmission of the disease, we have a found a path to end the evil oppression of this disease.

I have watched enough movies and read enough books to spot a scenario from miles away. It is the commonly used device of nearly killing an enemy. You know the scene. The beast is lying in defeat nearly breathing its last breath, and rather than complete the final act giving the beast over to death, our hero pauses.

We are pausing. We know the path. We have the resources. We have the means to end AIDS. And instead of burying our blade deep into its black heart, we pause.

It was reported that many of the countries that pledged financially to the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, have not made good on those pledges. It has also been reported that PEPFAR is on the verge of losing funding. The weariness of the fight has set in.

I will write one last thing about dragons. They heal quickly and return to the place of their wounding with great vengeance, fueled by a grudge that only makes them stronger. If someone sets out to kill a dragon, then they must kill a dragon.

We have set out to end AIDS. We must. The most valuable and effective swords that are available to us, are the voices we raise. My flight is about to take off. And the echoes of conversations from earlier today carry a common point. The government will tune its ears to the strongest voice. It will act upon the expressed concerns and cares of its people. We must let government know that we are here to kill a dragon.

We will not stand by as we lose our foothold, and watch HIV/AIDS rise up with greater force.

Gather your weapons: http://www.bloodwatermission.com/AIDS, http://2015quilt.com

As a special thank you to ONE members near and far, they’re offering a free exclusive download of “Joy to the World” off their new Christmas album “Oh for Joy” (Sixsteps Records) Be sure to check it out and pass this link on to your friends. In order to get it, fill out the form on our Faith page and you’ll be taken to our download page: http://www.one.org/us/onesabbath/.

The work goes on to beat back hunger, poverty and disease like AIDS. Thanks to the David Crowder*Band, we have some great tunes to turn up while we do our part.

Mike Hogan, the band’s violinist, recently shared the following in an email to their fans:

“And here’s something you might not know: By becoming a ONE member you have become more attractive. Seriously. Physically you might not look all that different, but something on the inside has changed. You have raised your voice in support of some of the poorest people on Earth. You have told our world leaders that it is in humanity’s best interest to support health and education in the developing world, and that the real “F word” out there is ‘famine.’ And that makes you more attractive.

So thanks again for coming out and supporting the band on our final tour. And thank you for making a single night of music something more than just a good memory. Thank you for making it a force for change.”

In the late 1800s, Bahá’u’lláh, the prophet and founder of the Bahá’í faith, famously wrote: “The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.”

Years before I read this quote for the first time, I witnessed the concept in action in my very household through the hospitality that my parents extended to guests from around the world. During my childhood in suburban New Jersey, we hosted a young Israeli-Argentine couple, a middle-age El Salvadorian pastor and his wife, and a succession of Chinese graduate students. Through these intimate connections, my sisters and I developed a natural respect for and inquisitiveness about foreign cultures and especially languages. Likewise, our visiting friends were fully integrated into our family life -– sharing meals, holiday celebrations and everyday chores.

The lesson -– perhaps unspoken -– was: we are all in this together.

Our neighborhood block was also like an extended family. The older kids looked after the younger ones; everyone ran freely between houses to play; and if we misbehaved on the block, we caught hell twice –- as the saying goes -– first with our neighbors and again at home. In fact, there was such shared sense of family responsibility that, during my prideful teenage years, I was reluctant to have friends stay over too late in the evenings, lest my father corral them into laundry duty, folding towels and sorting underwear.

But here again, the message was: we are all in this together.

This past year in particular has underscored for me the indispensable need for a supportive community. In January, my wife Ruth and I linked our families through marriage; we then spent a few months staying with friends during a long process of searching for and moving into our new home; and most recently this fall, we welcomed the arrival of our first daughter, Khaia.

Throughout, we have wholly depended on the gracious and inexhaustible assistance of innumerable friends; some of whom we’ve known for years, while others are new neighbors whose earliest interaction has been to offer service. But regardless from which hands the help came and in what form, we recognized with deep gratitude their clear motivations of love, sincerity and encouragement.

These actions declared: we are all in this together.

During the holidays, let us appreciate our inter-connectedness and be –- to again quote from Bahá’í writings — “waves of one sea,” “leaves of one branch,” “flowers of one garden.” In recognizing our oneness, we see that all work done in the spirit of service is worthwhile — whether it is assisting with the famine relief effort in East Africa or helping a loved one through a personal crisis. We can each strive to find our calling and, with unceasing enthusiasm, encourage friends in their own endeavors to build better communities.

We are all in this together.

Visit the Faith @ ONE page to get started in joining ONE to end famine for good.

Jack Gordon is a media producer currently working on Faith in Action DC, a multimedia project celebrating faith-based community service initiatives in the nation’s capital region. He is also a board member of the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, representing the DC Bahá’í community.

We live in a world where a person’s future is too often determined by where he or she is born.

If you’re born in a certain village or zip code, you have a better chance of dying before 18 than receiving a secondary education. And on the flip side, if you’re born into certain freedoms, you have access to life-giving resources such as an education, health care and a worshiping community.

In the aftermath of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt talked about the Four Freedoms — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

As advocates with ONE, we are focused this Thanksgiving on addressing the freedom from want for our African brothers and sisters — both on an immediate level in response to the famine and on the level of long-term sustainability.

As we speak up this holiday season, we are reminded that our ability to be advocates is a direct result of the freedoms we were born into.

Jesus taught us, “To those whom much is given, much will be required” (Luke 12:48). As we reflect this Thanksgiving, we are reminded that even if we are not part of the 1 percent in the US, we are almost certainly part of the 1 percent in the world.

Yet our motivation to give this holiday season is not, and cannot be, out of guilt. If we respond this Thanksgiving out of guilt, it will ultimately paralyze us. Instead, as Christians, we are called to respond generously to others in the same way that God’s amazing grace was generously offered to us.

The disciple John writes, “We love because God first loved us” (1 John 4:19).

A couple of months ago, we were praying about how to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11; our church got excited about responding by taking up an offering for those facing the worst of the drought in Somalia, many of whom are Muslim.

We were blown away by what happened — it was generosity in action, generosity out of thanksgiving: more than 100 young people in our new church gave $14,600. What made this even more miraculous is that it was matched and multiplied by others the following week to total $100,000 in emergency food aid for the famine!

We love because God first loved us. The best advocacy and the best giving is not done out of guilt but out of thanksgiving. For us, it is a response to the compassionate and relentless love that God spilled out for us that we surely did not deserve.

This week, we’ll be joining with ONE in their Thanksgiving campaign, to add our voices to the call for immediate aid and long-term sustainable development in the Horn of Africa. If we truly believe all are created in the image of God and that we are blessed to be a blessing, speaking out is the least we can do.

Please join us: head to one.org/faith and sign up.

Aaron Graham and Justin Fung are the Lead Pastor and Associate Pastor at the District Church in Washington, DC.

In just a couple of days, we’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving, and churches and other faith communities will be participating in ONE Sabbath Thanksgiving — a campaign to raise awareness about the ongoing situation in the Horn of Africa. More than 200 people of faith and faith communities from across the world have signed up to do their part to combat the devastating drought and care for our brothers and sisters in Africa. Some of you may be sharing video clips showing the living proof of the effectiveness of agricultural development and investment. Others might be speaking from the pulpit on the responsibility to be thankful for what we have but act on behalf of those who don’t.

If you’re interested, it’s not too late to join in. Head over to one.org/faith to sign up and download the resources; and to request postcards for our advocacy petition drive, email faith@one.org.

This fall, Project 7 teamed up with David Crowder*Band to help raise funds for the 7 Wells Project to ensure that their last tour, the 7 Tour, had a global impact. At every show, concert goers were encouraged to make donations that would go toward building wells in the Lira District of Northern Uganda, where more than one-third of the population do not have access to clean water.

Project 7 makes everyday products like gum, mints, water, coffee and apparel for good and is dedicated to creating positive change through purchases. By purchasing Project 7 products, people make a conscious decision to do good, give back and support organizations positively impacting one of seven areas of global need {FEED the Hungry, HOUSE the Homeless, etc.}

This year alone, Project 7 has provided 444,115 meals in American communities, 5,569 days of shelter for orphans, 6,812 malaria treatments, 5,632 people with a year of clean water, 4,622 weeks of schooling, 5,352 days of counseling for children of war, and we have planted 402,058 fruit trees.

Go here to learn more about how you can get involved and QUENCH the Thirsty in Sub Saharan Africa. And be sure to enter for a chance to have a well dedicated in your name!

-Lindsey Nobles, Director of Community, Project 7