My leaky kitchen fauchet.
By Magdalena I. García
A friend just sent me a power point presentation in Spanish called “The Water Challenge,” which reminds all of us of the pressing need to conserve water. You can download and watch the presentation at http://www.elretodelagua.com/, a website based in Madrid, Spain. If your Spanish is not that advanced, you can get similar information in English at http://www.wateruseitwisely.com/.
In typical US fashion, the latter website includes shopping options and a game. Surely we are going to save the world by shopping and having fun. That’s the American way! I think there is an insight here for those of us who want to make anything grow...including the church. Looking for a redevelopment strategy with mass appeal? Let them shop and let them play! Sounds like the mega church manual to me. No wonder agencies—and churches—with a social justice focus have a harder time engaging the public and growing. Heck, they expect people to think, to give up long-established habits, and to work for change.
“Súmate al reto del agua” (or “join the water challenge”). It seems to me that Jesus could have said that. We should add it to the Sermon on the Mount. Or the Sermon on the Plain. Better yet, add it to one of the sermons by the Sea of Galilee. So I’m making a commitment to take the water challenge on a daily basis. And I’m going to tell my neighbor D. that she should stop wasting water by washing her car with a hose on her driveway. That is, unless she offers to wash mine too!
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