It’s a huge number, to be sure, for it represents the total population of the earth.  Beyond that, though, it represents hopes and dreams. It represents fears and struggles. It represents the hearts and souls of men, and women and children on this small clod of dirt that’s twirling on the far side of the galaxy.

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Now, we know from our own personal experience that each of us is unique – that’s nearly eight billion expressions of faith, nearly eight billion hungering and thirsty lives. We know that each one of those nearly eight billion people have something different lingering on their minds, something weighing them down. We know that nearly eight billion lives need nearly eight billion different things. But we also know that at the center of each of those needs is the deepest desire, the deepest yearning of the soul: God.

When we stop and survey the enormity of all of this, we’re overwhelmed. We’re amazed, and we’re struck by the biblical promise that God knows each of our names, that God knows the plans He has for us, that God can care (and that God would even want to care) for the nearly eight billion of us who consistently struggle to live up to his command to love each other…but we are convinced that GOD IS BIG ENOUGH – that God is big enough to care for us, that God is big enough to love us, that God is big enough to know us, that God is big enough to save us!

It is our hope that these bracelets we wear will open up doors of conversation about our faith, about our Savior and about our church; we hope to share the grace and love of God in such compelling ways that it might meet that deep pining of all our souls. We hope that whatever portion of the nearly eight billion people of earth that we come into contact with will sense God in our stories and in our lives. More than that, though, we pray that this would be a statement that is read not just on our bracelets or from our t-shirts, but that it becomes a message that is spoken from our Christ-consumed hearts, a message proclaimed more by what we do than by what we wear.

To date, WC has distributed over 600,000 bracelets in English, Akan (Ghana), Chinese, German, Spanish, and Vietnamese.