One dress, one purpose!
I am taking the “WELL” DRESSED CHALLENGE to raise awareness and funds for LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL. What does that mean? I am committed to wear one dress for six months and donate the funds I would normally spend on clothes to Living Water International to help them drill wells in Honduras and other developing countries.
Why did I decide to do this?
On a mission to trip to Honduras a year and a half ago, I had the amazing experience of visiting Mission of Mercy’s Children’s Schools. At the end of each day, we would go with some of the children back to their homes to see first-hand their living conditions and meet their parents or caregivers.
At the end of each family visit, we would ask the parent or caregiver, what it was that we could pray with them about; what was their biggest need. Inevitable, they would tell us they needed water. Water in their home or village would change everything, I was told.
Most villages had access to water by delivery only once a month. Because the parents or caregivers worked during the day (usually a single mother, a grandmother, or neighbor) it became the children’s responsibility to retrieve the water for the families daily needs: drinking, eating, washing school uniforms that are mandatory to attend school, etc… The parents and caregivers were extremely concerned for the safety of the children as they went to obtain water from faraway places because this task exposed them to gangs, rape, sex trafficking, and drugs; not to mention that the water they often brought home was in limited amounts and contaminated.
After each visit, I began to understand that water was not only the beginning of life but the beginning of change for these communities.
WATER CHANGES EVERYTHING!
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He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 8:6 (NIV)
Believing,
Angela
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