Water Purifier Described

Haiti

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On the news this morning, WATER is the biggest need in Haiti.

Water is Life. In the immediate future Haiti will face the fall out of death in their water system.  Merely giving them bottled water is not a viable sustainable solution.  Empowering them to purify their sources of water is the answer.

Edge Outreach uses the same system we do and has a rapid response team.

Please, if you're wanting to make a difference, consider contributing to our friends at http://edgeoutreach.com who use the same water purifier system that we use. Theyre headed for Haiti with 9 purifiers!

This from their site -

We'll be sending three teams of 6, and nine water systems to Haiti beginning January 20. Output from these systems should be over 70,000 gal/day. The cost is $79,000. THANK YOU for your support!

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Humbled & Honored

A friend sent this to us:

David & Anita both of you inspire me to be better...your posts are uplifting and never EVER second guess yourself because there are those out there (me!) that read and breathe what you write....you can't even imagine! I love the history---I hunger for what you both write...literally.


YOU are powerful. Your WORDS are powerful...so keep them coming my dear dear friend!! God bless you....for everything...that you don't even know you've done for me....


God Bless you both. For you never know those of us you touch. Your words, your sympathy, your courage and your strength--each has so much meaning.

I'm blessed that God has placed me with you and that I call you my friend. The Lord walks in you and through that I am deeply touched, and I'm closer to our Lord. 


We never know who we're helping when we share the over abundance of Christ in us.

But we know for sure who we're not helping when we don't share!

Selah ~

Something Beautiful

The following is a post from another social network site.  A recommendation from a world changer and we're deeply honored.

Dear Waters Edge,
I've written this recommendation of your work to share with other users.

Details of the Recommendation: "If you are interested in making a difference in this world then Water's Edge Ministries are who you want to connect with. David and Anita run this organization with integrity and heart. They are passionate about issues of poverty, hunger and orphans and specifically work within communities in Ghana to bring clean water to the people. They have taken teams to Africa and continue to impact villages by setting up filtration systems to eliminate the issues of dirty water and diseases. They also have a program to sponsor children so that they have opportunities to attend school, have hot meals and receive education that empowers their minds and future. I highly recommend David and Anita if you are looking to do something on a global level."


JW

Something beautiful, something good

All my confusion He understood
All I had to offer Him was brokeness and stife
But he made something beautiful of my life

Mele Kalikimaka

Woke up to a cold, rainy morning.  Stayed in bed a while longer.  Snuggled up with my Angel Baby Doll and gave thanks.

Put on a new long sleeve t-shirt (gift from a neighbor), heated some Chocolate Truffle Coffee, made tea for my butter cup, cut a couple of hefty slices of Cracker Barrel Apple Pie (gift from a friend), put a thick slice of extra sharp cheddar cheese on each and nuked!

Consumed above listed goodness while checking some email and tweets and discovered...

Christmas Opener: Just Come Home from NewSpring Production on Vimeo.

...this in a tweet by @perrynoble , pastor at Newspring church in Anderson, SC.

Just had to share it with Y'all!

** Mele Kalikimaka = Merry Christmas for you non-Hawaiian types!

Hope

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope." --Barbara Kingsolver

He who began a good work...

I have to share this devotional I received from a friend, Glenn Burris, Interim President of Foursquare Gospel Church:

Come, Emmanuel

Good morning!

John Mason Neale was born on January 24, 1818. He trained to be an Anglican priest at Trinity College in Cambridge. By most accounts, he was brilliant; a man who could write and speak in more than 20 languages. But he was also feared. In religious circles in the United Kingdom, many feared his intelligence and his insights. He was considered too evangelical, too progressive, and too much a free thinker. Many were afraid he might possibly gain too great an influence.

Instead of getting a parish in London, the church sent him to the Madiera Islands off the northwest coast of Africa. In a sense, he was exiled to this far away place in hopes that he and his ideas would never find root in England. Even in his isolation from mainstream Christianity, he could not keep his dreams submerged. He established the Sisterhood of St. Margaret, from which he began an orphanage, a school for girls, and a house of refuge for prostitutes. Often frail and sickly, Neale continued to steward his unique gifts and passion despite serving with physical limitations and in an obscure place.

Driven by his love for the Scriptures, he not only read the Bible, but he would also read any Scripture-based writing he could get his hands on. He came across an obscure Latin chant called “Psalteroium Canionum Catholicarum.” Some scholars estimate that a monk first compiled these words sometime prior to the 9th century. The text inspired Neale and he decided to translate it into English. The words reverberate with promises concerning the Messiah from Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew 1:23.

Neale, intentionally pushed into obscurity by his assignment, reintroduced the world to Emmanuel, God with us, and Israel as a representative of God’s passionate desire to bring redemption and restoration to all. He empathized with Israel’s “captive, lonely exile.” In the third verse of probably the oldest and still sung Christmas carol, we read:
    “O come, O Dayspring, come and cheer,
    Our spirits by thine advent here;
    And drive away the shades of night,
    And pierce the clouds and bring us light.”

   Chorus: “Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.”

Now you know the rest of the story. A minister, destined by men for obscurity, rose out of the darkness to share his gift of writing with the world. Don’t ever allow your mind to wonder concerning the purposes and plans God has for you. No man, no system, no power, no demon, and no scheme can ever hold back what the Lord has commanded concerning you.

“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Phil. 1:6 NIV).

Come, Emmanuel, come...

Merry Christmas!

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