Stories tagged with: water

• Clean water can flow through BGR on #GivingTuesday

  by BGR & BP Staff, posted Monday, November 26, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo submitted

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Clean water is the #GivingTuesday focus of Baptist Global Response for a second year.

  After its initial #GivingTuesday campaign for 500 water filters, BGR has raised its goal this year to 600 filters for families in Asia and Africa.

  Each filter, which resembles a clay pot, will provide a family of five with a year of clean water at a cost of $25 per filter. Read More

• Mt. Zion tackles community's lack of potable water

  by Jane Rodgers/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Tuesday, August 16, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo provided by Mt. Zion Baptist Church

  SEAGOVILLE, Texas (BP) -- The 100 residents of the unincorporated Sandbranch community have lacked potable water due to contaminated wells for a startling three decades.

  The 138-year-old community, however, now has a source of quenching for its physical and spiritual thirst: Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

  When Eugene Keahey became Mt. Zion's pastor four years ago, he saw an immediate need to serve the Sandbranch community by expanding the services of Project Dreamhaus, a 501c3 organization he and his wife Deanna founded in 2001. Once focused on scholarships and educational opportunities for youth, Project Dreamhaus now also helps bring basic services to the community. Read More

• In Flint, Ky. volunteers delivering water, hope

  by Mark Kelly, posted Tuesday, February 23, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by John Swain/NAMB

  FLINT, Michigan (BP) -- Southern Baptists are bringing clean water and a ray of hope to residents of Flint, Mich., as that city scrambles to solve its potable water crisis.

  Trained disaster relief volunteers from the Kentucky Baptist Convention are working in Flint seven days a week at the invitation of Michigan emergency management officials. Five three-member teams are going door to door, delivering water filters, bottled water and water test kits. They also are passing along information related to the water crisis and listening as residents tell their stories about being caught up in the dilemma. Read More

• DR teams continue work amid Flint water crisis

  by Roger Alford/Kentucky Today, posted Friday, February 12, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Tony Lynn, Baptist State Convention of Michigan

  FLINT, Mich. (BP) -- Teams of Kentucky Baptists with expertise in providing clean drinking water to villagers in Third World countries are planning to head to Flint, Mich., next week to install water purification systems for Flint-area families dealing with lead contamination.

  Meanwhile, local Baptists continue to distribute bottles of water and offer encouragement where they can. Read More

• Flint water crisis draws Southern Baptist response

  by Tobin Perry, posted Wednesday, January 27, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy Westside Baptist Church

  FLINT, Mich. (BP) -- Charnisha Brown could describe in one word her feeling when she first realized that the water coming out of her pipes was contaminated -- devastated.

  "It was devastating to me because of the kids -- especially my kids," said Brown, a Flint, Mich., resident. "We don't want the kids going through that. We don't want anyone going through that. It's not a good thing that you can't drink your water." Read More

• Football teammates labor for Haitians' clean water

  by Tim Tune, posted Thursday, August 13, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  OXFORD, Miss. (BP) -- When University of Mississippi defensive end John Youngblood takes a break during the team's practices, he isn't likely to take a drink of cold, clean water for granted.

  And in the locker room, Youngblood, an Ole Miss junior, and teammate Christian Russell, a senior linebacker, likely will have greater appreciation for a refreshing shower. Read More