Well Water · since 2003
Clean water for villages, through the church next door.
We help local churches drill wells and keep them running. The church crew drills it, a village committee looks after it, and the pastor is there in the mornings when people come to fill their cans.
From the field this month
Project 214 · now funding
One open well for six hundred people
The only water in this village is a hand-dug hole that floods every rainy season. A sealed borehole would fix that. 72% funded.
Help finish it
Five-day devotional
Jesus at the well, in John 4
Five short readings on the woman at the well and the living water Jesus offered her. We read it with our crews before every drilling season.
Read it freeA fair question
“Why does a water charity talk about Jesus?”
Because we’re a church ministry before we’re anything else. Jesus met a thirsty woman at a well and offered her living water. We drill because people need water, and no one has to believe anything to drink from our pumps. But our crews pray before they drill, a local church hosts every well, and we hope people meet Jesus there too.
What we believe
Three ways to be part of it
Give
Fund a well
A well costs about $12,000 and serves a village of around six hundred people. Smaller gifts pay for repairs, which are often the quickest way to bring water back.
Fund a well →Pray
Get the prayer letter
Every month we send one village by name, with its pastor, its committee and what they’re asking for. It takes two minutes to read.
Get the prayer letter →Go
Plan a church trip
Churches can visit a village their well serves, on a one-week trip with our team. You won’t drill, but you’ll worship with the church there.
Plan a church trip →
About us
It started with one broken pump in 2003
Eight people from a church on Spring Street visited a village whose only pump had been broken for three years. The part cost less than one of their plane tickets. They fixed it that afternoon with the village pastor, and on the flight home they started planning the next one.
Today local crews have drilled or repaired about 1,240 wells. Ninety-six in a hundred are still flowing after five years, because the committee that runs each one is trained before we leave and the church stays.
Read our story
I walked two hours each way for water, every morning, for eleven years. The first day the pump worked I didn’t know what to do with my morning, so I went and sat in the church. Pastor Daniel prayed with me. I haven’t missed a Sunday since.
Amina, whose village got its well in 2019
More stories from the field“Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.” John 4:14
Help a church bring water to its village.
Give once, or monthly. Every finished well is posted with photos and its GPS pin, so you can see where your gift went.