Safe Water Fund
			A common ritual around the world: Collecting drinking water that is unfit to drink

Safe Water

Of the six billion people on planet earth, one billion don't have access to safe water. And it is estimated that eighty percent of diseases in the developing world result from bad water and inadequate sanitation. Waterborne illness kills 4,900 people every day, most of them children under the age of five.

While some American preachers encourage us to believe God for more personal luxuries, many of God's children around the world are drawing their drinking water from mud puddles.

That should concern us, since Jesus is one day going to say one of two things to every person, either, "I was thirsty and you gave Me a drink," or "I was thirsty and you did not give Me a drink."

We're determined that Jesus won't say the latter to anyone associated with Heaven's Family. And we've been researching ways to make a difference.

We've discovered a proven technology called the "Biosand filter." These filters are easily constructed from inexpensive materials that are available all over the world, such as cement, PVC pipe, sand and gravel. Good bacteria that forms in the filter purifies water as it drains through the sand. Biosand filters remove between 95 and 99.5 percent of microbial contaminants as well as 100% of worms and parasites. Each unit costs only $65 to construct and can purify 15 to 20 gallons of water per day. They work for years.

To date we've been able to provide Pur Water Purification Tablets, drill a bore hole for our spiritual family in Kenya, and provide water pipes for a village of Christians in Myanmar to bring water from a distant spring to their village. Our pilot filter project is already underway in Kenya, and a few of our Kenyan associates are being trained in construction and operation of the filters. We want to do more, and the opportunities are many. Jesus wants to say to us one day, "I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink" (Matt. 25:35). Will He?