The Well Never Runs Dry

For the past two years, blistering heat and drought conditions have ravaged much of the United States. In the Northwest, forest fires devoured homes and burned up anything their path. In the Northeast, water was so scarce that wells ran dry. Thousands of people like Cynthia Hawkins of Madison, New Hampshire, not only had to buy drinking water, they had to figure out how to live without a well. Cynthia and her son were lugging buckets of water from a nearby lake to use for household needs. On top of that, Cynthia was fearful that her well was running dry. To make things worse, she found out her water was contaminated.

"I was trying to be really patient with it, but I wasn't doing a good job with it that day."

That day Cynthia turned on The 700 Club and what she saw completely changed her way of thinking. Cynthia had been upset about her water situation, but as she watched the program, her heart broke as she saw Indian women walking miles a day, hauling water, much like she was doing. Only she realized that her situation was quite different than theirs.

Clean water in India is a luxury that few enjoy. Many Indians die from drinking dirty river water. Cynthia learned that CBN was drilling wells to save lives around the world. Thousands of Indian families have been helped.

This also opened the door for them to hear the Gospel.

"I was moved because I had a situation that could end, or I could do something about it. So I used my resources to help someone else."

But as a single mother and schoolteacher, she lived on a tight budget -- and she knew that she might have to pay to drill a new well. With winter not far away, she didn't want to be out of water when the ground froze over. So...

"I knew a lot of people in the area had to dig new wells and that was on my mind. Financially, where was I going to come up with the hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig a new well?"

"Keep in mind that spending the money at that time wasn't a practical thing," Cynthia remembered. "It had to be faith, to spend money to help someone else when I might need a great deal of money to dig a new well."

But Cynthia went ahead and wrote a check for $100 dollars to The 700 Club to help the India wells project. Even though she had no idea what she would do if her well dried up, Cynthia knew that she had done the right thing.

Autumn arrived and some of Cynthia's neighbors were still hauling and buying water because their wells had dried up or were still contaminated -- but not Cynthia's.

"Mine had cleared up in a matter of a month. So I could use the water again, and I never did run out of water. A lot of people had to refinance their homes, had to dig new wells, had to find a new source."

"There was no doubt in my heart and mind that God was faithful to help me in my need because I helped his children in their need."