Haiti [August 2014] | Giving Life by Giving Water | By: Holly Aman

On Thursday, we had the privilege of venturing to Lartige to visit with the community and to see the water treatment system that we have been praying for, believing for, and giving towards. Church - it is amazing. As we walked from where the stream had been before to where the pipes carries water, I stood in amazement at what God can do when His Church becomes committed to seeing lives bettered.

Clean water pours from spigots all throughout the community. A few families have running water in their homes. The school that feeds every child in the community once a day has running water, allowing the women to spend more time preparing rice and beans for 200 students and less time retrieving water. Families have easy access to clean water, now, and this is all because we gave. 

We gave because we wanted to. Not because anyone made us or because any incentive was given. Our vision is to give life and that means being open to giving life in the form that need takes a face. Giving life will always require giving. It always means action. 

What we were able to provide for the community of Lartigue through this water treatment system is far better than what we could have provided through the well. The opportunities are endless and the possibilities that are already being realized are changing lives. Instead of clean water being the end, it has become a means to many ends. 

As I listened to people from the community speak about what clean water has meant for them, I was reminded of something that I wrote in my post shortly after finding out that the well would not happen:

“Sometimes even as God points out a need to us, the solution is not what we initially expect. While this certainly has the potential to take us by surprise, He is not surprised by it. He knows all things, sees all things, and loves to meet needs far more than we do.”

As I sipped clean water from the spigot, my eyes welled up with tears at the sheer thought of the faithfulness of God to lead us on this journey to give life to a community that He so loved. 

What an honor it is, Church, to be able to give life. 

The best is yet to come!

Holly