We’ve got WATER

Hey everyone, we’ve got water! After 3 days of hard work down at the well site, we were able to pump water for the first time today! The community has really been doing an amazing job to get this well done quickly, and by God’s grace, we’ll be handing it off to them on Friday. Community involvement is such an important part of this process, so it’s been great to see them really owning this well and putting in a lot of hard work!

I had a great conversation today with Chris Sasser, who’s on staff here with Global Support Mission. We talked about the physical and spiritual needs of these communities and how addressing spiritual poverty as well as physical poverty is the most important element of what we do here. If we were to just meet people’s need for clean water, but neglect their need for LIVING water – our Savior Jesus Christ – then we would doing them a disservice. That’s why during the “Handing Off” process we let them know of WHY we’re doing what we’re doing and the hope we have beyond the physical needs of this world. To drink from this well, we will grow thirsty again. But to drink from the well of God, we will be eternally satisfied. And THAT is why we do we do. To preach the gospel to the poor. So they can hear it from our lips, and KNOW it by our love…

 

1 John 3:16-17. “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?”

James 2:15-17. “Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”

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