In many regions of the world, contaminated water sources expose large populations of inhabitants to waterborne diseases. This year, an estimated 1.8 million people will die because of waterborne diseases; and because these conditions are most deadly to the weakest members of communities, children are the most vulnerable to falling sick and dying.

Incredibly, each day, 5,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable diseases in our world…simply because they didn’t have clean water to drink.

Jesus commands us in Matthew 25 -- as His disciples -- to help those in need:

“For I was hungry, and you gave me meat: I was thirsty and you gave Me drink…Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these My brethren, you have done it to Me” (Mathew 25:35, 40 NKJV).

Paula White Ministries M25 Missions Outreach is continuing to address the felt needs of people around the globe who are in need…not only of the gospel – but of the basic, daily needs that must be met for human beings to survive.

In order to help improve the lives of children around the globe, as part of its on-going M25 Missions Outreaches, last year Paula White Ministries again sponsored its annual “Back to School Bash” (B2SB). B2SB provided thousands of children across the country – in New York City, San Antonio, Texas, and in the Appalachian region in North Carolina – with backpacks filled with much-needed school supplies, clothing, and food bags for families -- enabling these precious children to return to school with “dignity, hope and a reason to smile.”

Now M25 Missions Outreach is teaming up with Hearts and Hands International to support its “Water Is Life” project. The “Water Is Life” mission is to bring clean water to those whose lives are threatened by water-borne diseases around the globe – and especially, the millions of children who will die from these preventable diseases every year.

PWM is helping to provide a revolutionary new portable water purifier to children in Africa. The life-saving device is compact and light-weight enough to go with them wherever they go – and acts like a “straw,” that simply hangs around the neck of a child, providing them with the clean water needed to survive when they drink through it.

Made from durable plastic approximately 10” long and 1” in diameter, the filter contains iodized crystals and active carbon, which removes and kills the waterborne bacteria and viruses that cause typhoid, cholera, E-Coli, dysentery and diarrhea.

To use the water-purifying filter, the child just places the end of the filter into any water source. It can be used wherever they – at home, playing in the country-sides, walking near a small creak or tiny riverbed -- and they suck through it as they would on any regular straw. The water flows through the filtration components -- and clean, purified water is drawn through the other end as the child sips through it.

The filter cleanses an average consumption 2-3 liters of water per day for up to a year – providing far more clean water than mere 8 oz. of water per day the average child in Africa has to drink now.

Paula White Ministries M25 Missions Outreach is thrilled to be part of this life-saving effort. As followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be His hands and feet of compassion. Now, we are putting action to compassion for those who need clean water to live. We cannot let these children go thirsty, or die from preventable water-borne disease -- simply because they have no clean, safe water.

That is why I want to ask you to help me save the lives of as many children in Africa as possible -- by helping us provide life-saving clean water to a child for up to an entire year with one of these revolutionary water-filters, and support our ongoing ministry outreaches worldwide!

And as we help, we know we are fulfilling Jesus’ directions to take care of the “little ones” who need us most; for as we know, God’s heart is particularly moved by the needs of children:

“And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward” (Matthew 10:42, NKJV).

Thank you for helping us give a child one more year of tomorrows…by giving them much needed clean water to drink, today.

God bless you!