H2O4K
First Water from the well pump in Karima!
Small Child getting water which is clean, and will not make her sick!
"Water" you doing? Let's not forget our commitment to Karima....
H204K means Water For Kenya. Sister organization BigStuf Camp is partnering with the 410 Bridge to help solve the water crisis in Kenya. During the 2007 summer sessions students, youth pastors, and adult chaperone's from our church were educated on the water crisis in Africa that is killing literally millions of men, women and children in Kenya. We are responding to the crisis that touched many of their hearts by raising the funds to build a well and send a mission team to assist in the task. The 410 Bridge is the organization that was created when the question was asked, “What if…?” What if a committed group of churches focused their efforts on one key country in Africa? Could the needle be moved enough to make a difference? The vision is to provide a “bridge” from American churches to a community in need in Kenya. The church and community will meet and work together to form a relationship to discover and address the needs of that community.
Imagine watching your baby painfully suffer because the water you gave her was full of parasites.
Imagine a child watching her mother lie to weak to move because the water she collected to sustain her life, is the very thing that is killing her.
Families in Kenya walk an average of 7 miles daily to collect water for the day. A 5 gallon bucket of water weighs 40 pounds. Once they arrive, that water source they have walked to, may or may not be contaminated. 80% of the deaths in Kenya come from water born illnesses.
It’s a vicious cycle. Water is the life of all of God’s creatures, but this water is killing the people of Kenya.
There is an answer, but they need our help...
-How?-
First Baptist Church hopes to raise enough funds to “bridge” with a community in need in the country of Kenya. Our goal there is to build a well. This well will be a community well. Unlike the small, residential well in your backyard, this community well will service thousands of people and will disperse to local schools and hospitals. The well, costing $30,000, will consist of a 300 foot bore hole, sufficient sized storage water towers, and a sizable pump to begin servicing a community of 40,000 + people. The funds necessary to build this well are above and beyond the cost of the trip itself.
Clinton First Baptist Church has a team with 15 available spots, going to help dig and implement the well for a community.
We were each created with unique gifts. We are called to use these gifts to serve one another in different ways. We are not all called to go to Kenya and build wells, however, there are ways to help.
Help through your voices-tell others you know about the project; your resources-donate money in the H20 4K envelopes or buy bottled water; your time-assist the missions team in fund raising efforts; your commitment-commit to an open heart for God’s will and prayer support; your leadership-lead your missions group in a fund raising effort.
-Why?-
Kenya may seem like a nation far away. They may seem out of our sight—but they are not out of our touch anymore— We have a team going to build a well and we have the opportunity to provide the funds to build the well. Their skin may be different, their eyes may be different, and their language may be different, but their needs are the same as yours. Their dry lips thirst for a drop of water, but the fear of death is overwhelming. Clinton First Baptist now has a way to provide clean water to a community in desperate need. Just as Christ provided the living water to the dying, you can provide clean water to the living. We are the body of Christ...Are your feet moving or are your hands praying?
And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness and your night will become like noon-day. Isaiah 58:10
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? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
1 John 3:17-
For a contribution , please send to following address. Thank you.
First Baptist Church Clinton H2O4K Project
Address:
310 South Broad Street
Clinton, S.C. 29325
Questions: Contact -
Church Office 833-2578
