03/22/2026
Dear friends, we wanted to share this good news with you all! Our water partners in Cuba are celebrating with us today--it's World Water Day and they are giving thanks that we are beside them as water partners. They are sending photos, videos, prayers, and words of thanksgiving. Here is a video from the Placetas Adventist Church. Jorge Luis, one of the operators (and the father of Sacchi whose story you've heard many times over the years) is sharing a powerful testimony marking our anniversary as partners in water. This is a summary of some of what he shares in this video: Thanks be to God, a water partnership was formed between the Placetas Adventist Church and the First Presbyterian Church Greenville, Mississippi, a beautiful collaboration between brothers and sisters. At first, I was one of those who initially did not believe such a project was necessary in their community but I saw the proof with my own eyes and became a believer in the need for a water purification system: a few drops of water from a standpipe in the church yard were placed on an agar plate and in a couple of days, there were worms on the plate--that was the water we were drinking! That sample was taken on February 7th and the following Monday, the clean water project launched! Thanks be to God, we have since distributed 929,850 gallons of clean water in our community. Doctors send patients to our church to get water! We are now celebrating the sixth anniversary of this wonderful initiative, and we, as a church, wish to express our deepest gratitude to everyone involved in this project. We thank God for this.
