The Advent Conspiracy

Advent is the season before Christmas, a period of waiting and preparation for the celebration of Jesus’ birth. For many of us, it’s additionally a period of frantic activity, with trying to decorate, attend those holiday parties and of course, shop. The Advent Conspiracy was started by five pastors who decided to prepare Christmas a truly “revolutionary event.” How? By encouraging their faith communities to “Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More and Love All.”

Each year, according to The Advent Conspiracy, we spend 450 billion dollars on Christmas. Each year, lack of clean water kills more citizens around the world than anything else and the cost to solve that problem is only 10 billion. You can do the

math on that one. The Advent Conspiracy asks us to give more, and by partnering with Living Water universal, aims to solve the water problem by bringing clean water to public and communities around the world.

Check out the video below for more data and inspiration. While it is from a decidedly Christian perspective, there is a report in there for all of us who participate in any scheme of holiday madness, no matter what your faith tradition.

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The Advent Conspiracy originally arised on Green Daily on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:01:00 EST 0.Please see our terms for use of feeds.

[Source] Patricia Mayville-Cox

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