5th Graders Help Provide Clean Water Through Water Mission
Fifth grade students had the incredible opportunity to go on a field trip to Water Mission last Friday. They were able to tour the impressive facility, participate in an empathy exercise, and design and build water filters. The empathy exercise was sure to leave a lasting impact, as students were imagining walking in the shoes of actual refugees and the many hardships they face. Water Mission was able to provide this refugee camp with Living Water Treatment Systems. These LWTS, designed and produced by Water Mission, provide 10,000 galloons of safe water per day. Water Mission has served over 8 million people, through 3,000 projects in 59 different countries. Where they see the need, they go! We learned that 1 in 3 people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water. Water Mission not only delivers safe drinking water, they also spread the message of Christ, the true living water!
"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 4:14
Our fifth graders were left feeling extremely privileged and blessed for our access to safe water and so many things that we often take for granted. But they also asked, what can we do? How can we help? Students had actually already put faith into action by collecting over $1,100 in coins in the past few weeks!!! Nice job to all the 5th grade, and Mrs Blalock’s class for taking 1st place in this coin drive! Carrying with us the empathy, ingenuity, love, and faith based action that we all experienced at Water Mission, these students are bound to continue to impact God’s kingdom in mighty ways.
"And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." Colossians 3:17
