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The Hope Epidemic is the confident expectation that circumstances will have a positive outcome, spreading from person to person, community to community, nation to nation. We want you to catch the hope epidemic like a disease that consumes your soul. At Seacoast Church we are crazy enough to believe that God can use us to start an epidemic that will transform communities across the world.

The lack of clean drinking water steals the lives of 5,500 each day—that's more than war, natural disasters, AIDs or even hunger. It is a silent killer—one that quietly preys on the world's most marginalized and forgotten people. Today, 1 in 8 people in the world live without clean drinking water; that is about 1 billion people in the world. The lack of clean water and sanitation results in approximately 1.8 million children dying every year from water related diseases.

This year we have decided to stop the crisis and start a hope epidemic by asking you to partner with us in spreading the hope of clean and living water. We can creating a lasting change by investing time, people and resources to help solve the world's global water crisis.

But the Hope Epidemic is about more than helping solve the world's global water crisis; it is about truly spreading the gift of living water, the gift of hope, to our friends, co-workers and communities. It has been said that people can live 40 days without food, 3 days without water, but not a second without hope. Jesus cried out in John 7:37-38, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” You see, Jesus is our hope.

For the next several weeks and throughout 2010, Seacoast is going to give you tangible ways make a difference by giving the gift of hope through both clean and living water. But we want to encourage you to use these opportunities to spread hope to your friends, communities and world so that together we can create lasting change. Stop the Crisis. Spread Hope.