Clean Water From A Well,

Leads to Living Water in MBale

Carl Dawson
December 2005

While in Mbale doing our follow-up visit, we asked to be taken to as many churches as possible so that we could see the growth and encourage the new believers and their pastors.  We visited 6 or 7 churches that morning.  As we were driving to the last church we were to visit before having to drive back to Kampala I began to recognize some of the landmarks.  This route looked remarkable like the one we had taken to reach one of the locations where we had drilled a new bore hole water well.  Our car came to a stop near the very simple structure in the photograph.  I asked Pastor Chris, the chairman or the Mbale Pastor's Fellowship, "What is this place?  He told me that all of the people inside this "brand new church" were formerly Muslims who had given their lives to the Lord of our giving them a water well.

I remembered when we were talking to the pastors about where to put the water wells that they all said we should put them all in Muslim areas.  They said the Muslims would not permit them to come and share the Gospel, but if we drilled new wells for these people they would invite us to come and do a dedication ceremony.  We would then have the opportunity to tell them our motivation for giving them the well.

What an emotional moment it was to worship with a group of people who now have an eternity with God because you loved them enough to partner with EMM to provide them with clean water!!!