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Published in: Sudan February 10, 2010

Saving 100 Lives in Darfur

By Joshua MacLeod 1 Comment

Did you know that for $30, you can give someone clean water for their entire life in Darfur Sudan?

The Watermelon Ministries team recently completed the 100 Wells Campaign for Persecution Project Foundation. We decided not only to provide creative media for this campaign, but give financially as well.

Our Goal

Our team is reaching out to our friends to give 100 people clean water in Darfur! Will you join us in this opportunity? For a $30 dollar donation to Watermelon Ministries, you can give an individual in Darfur clean water for their entire life. For five dollars more ($35 dollar  donation), you will give clean water, but also help spread the word with a 100 wells T-shirt or Bracelet. We will provide you with business cards to hand out when you wear your T-shirt or bracelet. You can be an advocate for the people in Darfur!

How can it be so easy to give clean water for such a small price? Its not easy at all! The only reason this campaign is possible is through the years of sacrifice and difficulties overcome by the staff at PPF. They have acquired the connections and resources to build the wells, but they need our assistance to serve more people. PPF always shares the gospel as they serve.

When making a 100 wells donation, please add a note that says “100wells” in the memo line.

Donate $35 and save a life! »

So far 56 of our friends have agreed to help give clean water through Watermelon. Will you give clean water for life?

Here’s what the shirts look like.

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Published in: Sudan January 18, 2010

A Prayer for Compassion

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Imagine if water were so valuable, you wouldn’t waste if washing your face. As I stepped off the plane into Sudan, I saw the dusty faces of those who have suffered under the terrible genocide happening in Darfur. It is one thing to talk about the 400 thousand people who have died and 2.5 million people displaced, but it is a far different thing to see the reality of lost lives and hardship on the faces of those in Darfur.

I visited an orphanage run by Kimberly Smith. At the time there were 800 children living without any shelter…the number one cause of death being wild dogs. I found my self in a state of numbness. Having recently visited Northern Uganda, I was shell shocked that such devastation was happening on our planet.

During this “numb” state, I started feeling guilty. I expressed my numbness to a Sudanese pastor named Tito Abaha. “You should pray”, he said…and I did. I said a simple prayer asking God to give me compassion for the children.

A few minutes’ later I was approached by three young children. I picked up a guitar and started playing “Father Abraham”. We started marching around in a circle as I sang.

I asked the oldest girl how she had come to the orphanage. “The soldiers came in an shot my mother an father, and so I came here”, she said. The other children looked up when she had finished speaking, both of them with the same reply…”me too.” The little girl then asked me a question. “Do you have a mommy?”. “Yes”, I said. “Do you have a Daddy?”. Yes. “Ohh”, was her response. I held back tears.


A friend of mine had given me a children’s book about how God is the creator. I took the book, sat the children on my lap and told the children about a father in heaven who loves them and created them to be with him forever.

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the orphan and the widow in their distress, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” -James 1:27

It is easy to quote this verse without visiting the orphan. It is also easy to get “spotted” by the world and become so busy that we neglect those who are closest to God’s heart.


God answered my prayers when I asked him to give me compassion for these young orphans. You can get involved in serving orphans in Sudan by contacting me.

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