BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — National Woman’s Missionary Union is responding with help and the hope of the gospel in the midst of the water crisis in Jackson, Miss. While drinking water has been compromised in the area for years, the recent crisis was precipitated by floods and failing water systems.
The WMU endowment committee approved emergency grants from its Pure Water, Pure Love ministry to provide three tractor-trailer loads of bottled water and the WMU Foundation executive committee approved a grant of $25,000 from the HEART Fund to help First Baptist Church, Jackson, with providing meals to seniors, food distribution, and other crisis response efforts. [Read more…]


