Water - Compassion for Life

There are some mornings I get up and pour a glass of water and the second I taste it, it's like heaven. It is so good and refreshing.

After I spend the day at the beach and I feel gritty from the sand and sticky from sunscreen and salt water, I love to come home and take a shower. I feel like a new person.

But what if I couldn't do those thing? What if I had to worry about disease every time I drank water or bathed or got in the gulf water? What if those luxuries didn't exist for me?

The reality is that millions of people don't have those luxuries and die daily from water that is contaminated and diseased.

The good news is you can help. For a dontion of $55 you could provide a family with clean water for life by providing them with a water filter. Check out the web site for more information.

Compassion International's Water of Life
Web Site: www.compassion.com/klove

Compassion for Life also helps in Disaster Relief. visit http://www.compassionforlife.com/ for more information

World Vision

What an amazing organization. Through World Vision you can sponser a child, a family or make purchases from their catalog like $35 to provide medicine or a goat and 2 chickens for $100 (which will provide eggs and milk for a family) or $25 for two chickens which will provide eggs. The list goes on and on.

Please visit the web site and donate or sponser and make a difference in many lives - possibly even help save a life.

http://www.worldvision.org/

Click to Give - Update - Autism

Click to give has added Autism to their website!

It's FREE - visit every day and click on the box and the sponsers donate to the cause.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=11&link=ctg_aut_home_from_trs_thankyou_sitenav

The Lakeview Center

This past weekend I went to Olive Baptist Church to listen to Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock played her in the movie "The Blind Side") talk about Lakeview Center and the importance of giving and helping one another. I couldn't agree more.

The Lakeview Center is through Baptist Healthcare and it's an organization "Helping People Overcome Life's Challenges." They help by providing couseling, drug and alcohol services, and have a crisis hotline. My brother worked the hotline 23 years ago...they've been helping people for a long time.

Look for a place like this in your community and see how you can help them to help others.

P.S. Me and Leigh Anne Tuohy

April: Donate Art

I hear a lot of people say, "I don't have an artistic bone in my body." I disagree. I think there is some form of art everyone is blessed with; drawing, painting, making scrapbooks, decorating, baking, etc.
What is considered art? Any and everything, it just depends on who is looking at it and how they're looking at it. So the next time you see a request to donate your art for charity, give it a try.

If you want to try drawing or painting I would suggest picking up any art book by Lee Hammond. I credit her with taking my art from ok to really good.
My 20 year reunion is coming up so I offered to donate a painting. I have also donated art work to raise money for an animal shelter.

I would love to display a few pieces, but my server has been a pain lately and I am not able to upload at this time, but I will keep working on it.

Now it's your turn to take that talent you've been given and put it to use to help others.

Lauren's Kids

As I type this a group of men, women and children are walking through Gulf Breeze, FL bringing awareness, education, and support and guidance to people who have been (are) victims of sexual abuse.

They are a bringing hope to those who feel hopeless.

Visit their web site and see how you can help.

http://www.laurenskids.org/
 

Finding Ways to Help

I know sometimes it may seem difficult to find places to volunteer at or donate to. I have run into this problem myself, but I have found several ways to find places that need help.

• Look for flyers. They can be found on bullentin boards, in fitness clubs, at the grocery store, etc.
• Ask around
• Look in the newspaper
• Look for vehicles that have charity information on them
• Internet searches
• Drive or walk around and look for buildings/offices that house charitable organizations
• Inquire at churches
• Go to a place you enjoy to visit (i.e.the zoo) and ask if they accept volunteers