clean water.

Our family has been in Uganda for 4 1/2 weeks now. We're settled into the village where we 

are living and though I've been posting snippets of our time here on my instagram, I wanted 

to tell you more about the water situation here.

Clean water is something that captured my heart years ago. It's something that I've always 

taken for granted--we turn on the faucet in America and we get clean water. I love long 

showers. Sometimes, I don't even turn off the water when I brush my teeth. We water our 

grass to keep it green, turn on sprinklers for the kids to run through, and even spray out 

our garages & driveways with water. 

When our son, Nico, took me to a village that he had once stayed in to show me their 

water source, my heart was broken. Every man, woman and child in that village was 

using swamp water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and caring for their livestock. 

Swamp water.

Though we rejoice that that village now has clean water--in large part from many from 

this social media community's donations--there is much work to be done still to get all 

our Ugandan brothers and sisters water.

Here is the water source for the village that we are currently living in, and where 

Redeemer House [the home where our older boys lived prior to coming home to us] 

will be located:

Once again, it's a literal swamp. This is the water that many of them walk up to 15-20 minutes 

to retrieve.

Redeemer House has a vision for their children to have a reliable clean water source AND 

for the village to have the same. Would you consider linking arms with me and with this 

village to say that we aren't okay with them using this water? Would you show them 

tangible love by helping them get clean water?

Ok, numbers people. Here is the breakdown of where we are. (I'm not really a numbers 

person until it comes to this kind of stuff. I LOVE watching God pull off amazing things

 through a bunch of people joining together with what they are able to!) 

Our family has committed to try to help raise $20,000 for the Redeemer House security 

wall and clean water campaign. There is a $20,000 dollar for dollar match by Crusader Homes. 

Of that $40,000, $25,363 has been raised! [Rejoice!] That means that only $14,637 more is 

needed to reach the goal. If we divide that in half because of the match, that's $7,319 needed. 

That is only 293 more people giving $25 each to reach the goal! 

(We started out needing 800 people to give $25!)

Click the Donate button below to give to this project through

XHope, Redeemer House's parent ministry. 

All donations are tax exempt to the extent of the law. 

Finally, most importantly, would you pray for the people here that they would have clean 
water and know of the Living Water? <3 p="">

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,  but whoever drinks 

the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a 

spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 

John 4:13-14