Last year we hosted our first Water is Life benefit in Birmingham, Alabama. We were young (still are) and had just begun clean water projects in our target countries. It was a time of excitement and we were honored to have friends like Mandi Mapes, Steven Sivley and Sara Evans perform for us along with incredible images by Jason Wallis, Esther Havens, Chase Khun and Daniel Phillips.  It was a great night.

This year we want to introduce you to the people we've been serving for the past…

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Radical. That's how we describe leadership at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama. Not radical in a bad way, but radical in a biblical way. This church, under the leadership of 31 year old senior pastor David Platt, has cut $1.5 million from their 2010 budget to 'meet urgent spiritual and physical needs in Birmingham and India'.

In a country where 41% of the world's poor live, Brook Hills has decided to put their money where their theology is - and the result is a partnership…

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