Watering the Dry Beaches of Pleasure Island

On this dry Wednesday afternoon our group went out to the beach to continue distributing water. This day was much hotter than the previous days and we thought that more people would take water due to the heat; thankfully, we were right! Our groups went out with water and within 15 minutes we all came back to refill. When my group (Rachel) came back, the girl we ministered to for the last 2 days ran up to us wanting to play or help in any way she could (she is only 5 years old). The excitement and tenacity she had was so great that people glowed after she gave them a bottle of ice, cold water. She also handed younger children rocket balloons and began to tell them how much fun they are and why she loved playing with them. It was truly an encouragement and a conviction to see an innocent child possess such joy and wonder when giving people water and rocket balloons though she could not understand why anyone would say "No."

Along with passing out water on Kure Beach, a team drove down to Fort Fisher to hand out the rest of the water we had. There people seemed much more receptive and took the water immediately. It was amazing to watch people's faces as they asked "What's the catch?" or "Why are you doing this?" giving us a clear opportunity to share our purpose and the gospel with those we came in contact with.

Later on that day we found out from Pastor Joey of KBFBC that someone from Virginia had e-mailed the church thanking them for the water they had received earlier on this week. It is wonderful to see how the Lord works in people's hearts by a simple gesture of God's love for them: a water bottle.