Printer-friendly versionThe purpose of Pure Water, Pure LoveSM is to provide missionaries and the people they serve with clean drinking water, free from disease-causing microorganisms, at no cost to them.
"Thank you so much for our water filter! It is such a blessing to know we will always have access to clean, pure water! Please know how grateful we are and how vital your ministry is. May God richly bless you for serving Him by serving us!"
—Last Frontier Missionary
Quick Facts:
- WMU began its Pure Water, Pure Love ministry in 1997 with the main purpose of helping to support missionaries with pure, safe drinking water by providing filters and water purification equipment. Because of the overwhelming support of this ministry, WMU was able to expand Pure Water, Pure Love in 2005 to include assistance with disaster relief in addition to digging wells and other long-term solutions for providing clean water in areas where missionaries serve.
- Within days of the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia in December 2004, WMU sent $37,000 worth of water purification equipment to Indonesia to help provide clean water. A total of 457 different items, ranging from water filters to portable water purification systems for personal use, were sent to the region early in January by way of disaster relief teams, volunteers, and other Great Commission partners.
- In 2005 in partnership with the San Diego Baptist Association, a steady stream of clean, safe drinking water became available to some of the residents at Colonial Alamar, a community in Tijuana, Mexico, that is home to 7,000 people who were resigned to drinking contaminated water. Filtration units were installed inside Centro Shalom Alamar, the only church in the area. Church members now enjoy safe water and share it with people in their community as a simple expression of love as they tell them about Christ, the Living Water.
- Since the beginning of 2006, the Pure Water, Pure Love Task Force granted Pure Water, Pure Love monies for ten wells or purification systems in Sudan, South Asia, Brazil, Haiti, Malawi, Honduras, Indonesia, Tanzania, Liberia, and Thailand. PWPL continues to meet the needs of missionaries and the areas in which they serve.
Donor's Ideas
The women (and men) at First Baptist Church of Minden, Louisiana, contributed their favorite recipes, which were compiled into a cookbook entitled
A Taste of Heaven
. The net profits were publicized as going toward Pure Water, Pure Love and resulted in a $3,800 gift.
The GA® group at Calvary Baptist Church in Wilmington, Ohio, turned their spare change into fresh water for missionaries. The girls reserved the money they usually spent on sodas for PWPL; the loose change from the offering plates went toward the girls' PWPL collection; a tabletop water dispenser was placed in the church foyer and used as a collection bank for members to place loose change and bills. In just over two years, the girls saved $1,000 and were able to purchase four water purifiers through PWPL!
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Additional Resources:
Volunteer Connection brochure (W055006), free
Pure Water, Pure Love
P.O. Box 830010
Birmingham, AL 35283-0010
(205) 991-4091 or (205) 991-4097
purewater@wmu.org
