Water + Gospel = Transformation

From the Editor / Rick Wood

+ Features

Water + Gospel = Transformation / Jonathan Wiles

Pentecost in Rajasthan: Water and Living Water In India / Paul Darilek

Watering and Planting: The Interplay of Water and Church Planting in West Africa / John Dallmann

Water and Poverty: One Organization’s Approach / Frank Greaves

How to be a Savvy Investor in Water and the Gospel / Jonathan Mitchell

A Glimpse: Water and Sanitation for Life

Good Works Empowers the Gospel / Ralph D. winter

+ Extras

Kingdom Kernels / Steve Smith

Exegesis of Ethne / Luis Bush

Raising Local Resources / Robert Reese

The Case and Call for Oral Bibles / Rick Leatherwood

Further Reflections / Greg H. Parsons

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Sep/Oct 2013; Issue 35.5

A tall, rugged man stands at the bedside of his 11 year-old-son. The boy had been sick with a fever for days but now it is over. Lifting the bed-sheet and gazing down at his son’s now lifeless body, he chokes as he speaks through sobs of grief, “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth. God has called him home. I know he is much better off in heaven, but then we loved him so. It is hard, hard to have him die!” He buries his head in his hands, his tall frame convulses with emotion. His son was such a good boy who had endeared himself to everyone who knew him. Just recently he had told his Sunday School teacher he wanted to become a teacher or preacher of the gospel. Now that dream was gone. This man’s other son, just 8 years old, is now also very ill with the same dreadful fever. Would he die as well? How could he bear the grief of losing two children at the same time? He is physically strong from years of hard labor having grown up in great poverty, but his great strength is no match for this struggle. He had now risen to become an important man in his country but this disease is no respecter of person or position. Scriptures had been read and prayers offered but his son had died in spite of the best efforts of all the doctors and pastors.

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