Texas Ministry Touching Lives Using a ‘Miracle’ Tool for Clean Water
The Bucket Ministry near Houston, TX, is sharing the love of God and touching lives by providing safe drinking water for people.
According to the World Health Organization, 771 million people worldwide cannot get safe drinking water. That has led to a variety of diseases especially in undeveloped countries.
The Bucket Ministry near Houston, TX is working to change those numbers.
The ministry’s mission of sharing the love of God through providing the gift of safe, clean drinking water is well underway in places like North America, South America, Central America, Asia, and Africa.
“We have distributed filters in almost 30 countries now,” The Bucket Ministry founder Chris Beth told CBN News. “We actively work in about 12 countries.”
While accompanying his daughter on a missions’ trip to the Brazilian Amazon in 2012, Beth, a successful businessman, saw what it meant to not have access to clean water after a local host asked if he was thirsty.
“I expected her to go into a refrigerator and get a bottle of water,” said Beth. “But what she did in turn was she went out onto this little plank on this house, bent down with two cups, they were irregular, they were mix matched and cracked and she filled these two cups up with river water.”
Beth said he was shocked by what he saw and says what happened next was something he never imagined.
“I’d never been in the business of hearing God’s voice,” he explained. “In fact, I thought when people said ‘God told me,’ I thought, ‘Oh boy.’ And so, I heard something, and I heard two words and He clearly said, ‘Help them.'”
Beth began searching for a way to help as soon as he returned home.
He found the answer at a Dallas camping supply store where he saw a filter that uses the same technology as kidney dialysis that could be used to remove harmful bacteria from dirty water.
“It attaches to any bucket or receptacle,” Beth explained during a demonstration using dirty lake water. “The filter is capturing all the dirt, the debris, the parasites, everything that’s making people sick from drinking unclean surface water.”
Equipped with filters, The Bucket Ministry was born as Beth returned to Brazil, supplying communities with clean, safe drinking water.
