Giving "living water" to a Garifuna Community

We have begun a water project where we work in Honduras in the community of Nueva Armenia to first meet the felt-needs of the community. They lack clean water and is their number one need (from their perspective). We are providing a new well, new holding tank and filtration system, and a community filling area where all can come and get clean drinking water. We have put in place a plan to begin educating the community on the benefits of clean drinking water and will be using the project as a way to share our faith in Christ.

What is “living water”?

Remember the Samaritan woman at the well? (read it in John 4) The same thing that the woman thought she needed (felt-need) was what Jesus used to explain her need for “living” water. He touched on a sensitive subject: the woman’s five husbands and the one she was living with who wasn't her husband. Now isn’t that culturally relevant! We encounter this same thing in Nueva Armenia and other communities we work in here. The water project is an ideal way to unite the community, address problems, and give them solutions to their problems based on God's Word all wrapped around the “wholeness” that we have in Jesus. This is true wholistic ministry just as Jesus did!

Water Project Update:

So far we've raised $920 toward our water project. Thank you!! We need an additional $1,580 to meet our goal of $2,500 to begin the first phase of our project which will be drilling a well. Our time frame is to begin the well the first week of March.

The land for the well has been donated to the community by a local pastor. Praise God! We are working with this pastor to form a long term spiritual plan for the community. And the “junta de agua” (community group in charge of the water project) has been created. We’ve already been able to create a ton of unity and have empowered many to begin ideas and dreams of their own. We've also helped in forming a youth work team getting the young men in the community involved. Everything we do is community led and the land we use is community owned. This gives true ownership of the project so it is never “ours” to turn over when we’re finished with the project. This project is just the first in several to come that will allow us to touch every area of this community.

Please help us reach our Phase One goal so we can begin the actual drilling of the well. This will impact this Garifuna community of over 2,000 people in HUGE ways! And it gives us incredible opportunities to share Christ’s love with a forgotten and overlooked community and people. Believe and pray with us that this goal can and will be met! Thank you for your faith and prayers!

We are thankful to CrowdRise (who we are using to raise funds for this project) for making it possible to keep our fundraising fees very low.

As always, thank you all for your on-going prayers and partnership!

In His mighty grip,
Corey, Kirsten, Gavin & Garret