At our Asian water conference in April we re-connected with a friend from Bihar. His name is Mrytunjay Kumar Barti and he is working in Bihar and Uddar Pradhesh. Mrytunjay was with us when we installed the water purification system in Jehanabad back in 2007. Jehanabad was one of the most needful areas of Bihar. However since receiving the water purification system the people have reported much better health, less water born illness and increased birth weight for the new babies. The local doctor accepts the purified water as payment for his services.

Mrytunjay is now working in other areas in Patna and in Varanasi. He oversees 31 house churches and one main local church. His group oversees 219 house churches and 3 main local churches. After the training in April, Mrytunjay has developed a health and hygiene team for the people he impacts and he and his team are currently translating our health and hygiene manual into Hindi and Bhorpuri.Our hope is to provide the Acts 2 house churches with pure water for their people. Three purifiers to start would equip the main local churches and the systems could be shared with the individual house churches.

An interesting anecdote: April 29 Dave and I went to a dinner to honor a former Chief Minister of Meghalaya currently serving in the government in New Delhi. He was talking about how much Bihar has improved with it's current leader but in that conversation mentioned the amazing transformation of Jehanabad. Pure water? Living water?