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Pastor John lives in the remote village of Kalo in Central Province, PNG. In 2006, our local partner, Living Light Foursquare Church of Port Moresby took 200 Operation Christmas Child boxes and distributed them through Pastor John. News of the shoe boxes drew people in and excited children came from villages all around.

The Port Moresby church then helped the village build a church… and then they put in a water pump. This transformed life for the village in a whole new way.

“We’ve got a big river,” said Pastor John, “but it was always polluted because when the rain came it flooded the river banks. Desperate for water, people came from other towns for the pump water.”

Pastor John calls the water from the pump Living Waters not only because it’s water that won’t take lives, but it’s also water that brings people to the church where they can find the true, “Living Water.”

“The people who come have great respect for the church that’s here. And they get physical blessing from the pump. When the water came in it drew the people in and they came from everywhere.”

Pastor John added, “To the people who have been giving us these presents, we say thank you. We don’t forget them. We love these people who have given us these gifts. It is making a great impact in this community.

“Before we were looking at the walls but now the walls have been broken down, and we can go out and people can come in. There is fellowship now.”

He said about the shoe boxes, “Some got pencils for the first time and it makes them try harder at school. They say ‘oh yes, we can see who we are now’ and they can progress in their lives.”

So whether you packed a shoe box, volunteered at a warehouse, donated money or spent time in prayer for our ministry, you are directly changing communities like the one at Kalo village in PNG, and bringing whole families to know God’s unconditional love.

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