Fill in the blank: What are you most proud of? What brings you the most joy? Perhaps more than anything else, how you answer these questions reveals the state of your spiritual health and condition. It may be that your spiritual health isn’t all that important to you. It may be that you don’t see […]
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We have just celebrated 10 years of ministry! God is truly moving here in new and fresh ways. Check out our newest updates: 1. New Instruments: Instruments of Joy – 95 Instruments have been delivered to aspiring musicians! From orphans in Rwanda to a pastor leading worship for five rural churches along the Amazon River; God […]
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Rivers begin when an insignificant bubble of water bursts through the earth and begins running toward the sea. The bubble becomes a brook and then joins another to become a stream. Streams meet and merge until they have made a mighty current. In the same way, the success of any entrepreneurial or ministerial endeavor […]
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Joanna Branson, one of Watermelon Ministries’ Picture the Nations’ photo ambassadors, just returned from a six month long photo journalism trek. She visited China, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Nepal, Czech Republic and the Netherlands to research how treatments can improve the self image of sex trafficking victims and their perception of control. She ended her journey in […]
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We all have mountains to climb and burdens to carry. Last month I found myself climbing a steep mountain in a distant country. The undefined pathway pointed ever upward and my photography backpack added forty pounds to every step. I soon regretted the purchase of “slip on” walking shoes in lieu of the more cumbersome […]
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This was my second trip into Darfur. The war and genocide in this region has caused many shortages. There is a shortage of food. There is very little clean water. Medicine is extremely hard to come by. There is however one thing that is not in short supply: guns and ammunition. Soldiers walking around with […]
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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.
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I had never met anyone with the HIV/AIDS virus before visiting a School in Sunyani Ghana. The first thing that I saw on Prince was an incredible smile. The second thing I noticed were the scars on his arms. Prince was born with AIDS
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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.
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It is hard to put into words the things that have happened in northern Uganda. An unimaginably evil man named Joseph Koney led by “7 spirits” decided to attack the Ugandan government. He formed a cult rebel group and named it “The Lords Resistance Army (LRA).”
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