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EAST AFRICA—While driving down the desolate and sandy tracks of a rural area of East Africa, Baptist representatives found themselves asking, “What's it going to take to reach this people?”

This rural area is home to several thousand inhabitants who are an unreached nomadic people. They are barely able to make a meager living by herding goats and cattle and selling the milk from the animals in the local markets.

The nearest paved road is several miles away and a town of significant size is even further.

It was shocking to learn that the only source of water for the people and for their animals was water found in dammed water catchments or in much smaller underground reservoirs filled by infrequent and very often inadequate rains.

They realized that the immediate answer to the question, “What's it going to take?” was “WATER!”

It was out of this insight that the “Water of Life” project was born. The project, which is still in the planning stages, will provide wells with clean water for these nomads. This will greatly improve the health of the people, supplying water the most basic needs of their families as well as their livestock. Those involved in the project hope that prayers, giving, and the willingness to travel down desolate paths to offer a cup of water in Jesus' name will one day lead these people to drink from the true Water of life.