I grew up in a church and always wanted more than just stories about God. If He was real then I expected to see Him at work! If we really believed the words we sang in the hymns then we should behave like it. That’s who I am – looking for a real God and…
I have to be honest, when Kayla (our Director of Development & Marketing) brought the idea of our team making New Year’s resolutions and blogging about them I was less than thrilled. People who know me understand why – I have publicly poo-pooed (in a good-natured way) the idea of resolutions many times in past sermons…
Happy New Year from the Healing Waters Team! At Healing Waters, we love the start of a new year. Full of possibility and excitement, it gives us the opportunity to look ahead and dream big, which is exactly what we’ve done. And this year we’re pretty excited about our New Year’s resolutions… As an organization, our New…
Our friends at Jibu were featured in an article on The Guardian‘s website about the work they are doing in Africa to create entrepreneurship opportunities that will make clean water much more affordable and accessible in Uganda, Rwanda and many other countries. Jibu uses Healing Water’s as its sole provider of water filtration systems, using…
Dear Friends, Fresh wind, fresh fire. That has been one of my mantras this past year. When we feed a flame with fresh wind, the fire can grow exponentially. This is what is happening with the ministry of Healing Waters. More than at any other time we have the capacity to see exponential growth, in the communities…
Healing Waters is blessed to partner with Jibu, L3C, and their micro-enterprise model in bringing safe water solutions to thousands in Uganda and Rwanda. Fifteen, high production, solar-powered systems have been shipped with nine more to follow. We can’t wait to see what happens when the projects are mobilized in these African nations!
“To educate girls is to reduce poverty.”- Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General We couldn’t agree more with Kofi Annan. Yet there are so many factors that can keep a girl in a developing country out of school and trapped in a cycle of poverty. And dirty water happens to be one of the biggest! Girls under the…
We are so impressed by today’s youth. It is amazing what they will do to raise awareness for a cause! Jennifer Wyffels’ Spanish 4 classes at Geneseo High School raised over $400 by collecting spare change from their friends at school! One of their chapters in their text book is on issues in the world…
Over the past two weeks, we have introduced you to the coolest 3rd graders we know! Jill Hodge and her 3rd grade class at Franklin Elementary in Liberty, Missouri, learned all about the Global Water Crisis and then decided to do something about it! They raised over $200, bringing clean water for life to 8 people!…