Whether we choose it or not, each of our lives are saturated by outside influences. For the millennial generation more often than not, one of those influences is social media. We spend hours scrolling through feeds in awe of photos that depict adventure, freedom, and perfectly frosted donuts and then hours more curating our own photos…
What do water and child nutrition have to do with each other? Just about everything, when considering how often children come into contact with it. Bathing, drinking, eating produce and wearing laundered clothes are all instances where children come interact with water, let alone ingest it. Water is a life-giving source, and can contribute positively…
“Eat, drink, and be merry.” When our development and marketing team suggested this as the theme for our year-end letter, at first I thought it sounded a tad too trite. But, the more I hear it, the more I see a deeper meaning and compelling vision. Like most of you, I relish Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners with…
The Eglise de Dieu en Christ de la nouvelle Alliance church of 400 people located in Tabarre, Haiti has been providing clean water to its community for almost three years now. We sat down with Wilner Sejousana, the water store operator, and Nadine Louis Pierre Saby, to hear from them about how safe water is…
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…
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…
“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…