Dear colleagues on Staff and Board,
Thank you for your fervent and faithful prayers and for investing your best efforts to make our first Watershed Weekend a success!
Almost a year ago, we began to dream of a world-class event:
- that would help us gather and appreciate some of our most significant and faithful investors,
- that would help us re-weave a community of involved and committed partners that could change the world,
- that would help us showcase our ministry message with excellence during the weekend and beyond,
- that would help us invigorate and educate our staff and Board to carry this powerful mission forward,
- that would help us raise the funds envisioned in Overflow and empower the mission for years to come!
Friends, by the grace of God, this is what you have accomplished–thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
I am delighted to report that we should be able to enter FYE25 with the budget that you have all been working to finalize for the Board meeting on Thursday! I am even more delighted that Watershed Weekend raised $2.85MM so far — funds that will save and change the lives of 56,900 formerly thirsty people–PTL!!! Most of these gifts were new or incremental and we anticipate that number will increase in the weeks ahead.
I am so grateful to the Lord for his presence and gracious generosity and to all our staff, Board members, speakers, musicians, the hotel staff, and friends at Westfall Gold for sharing their gifts, trust, and passion–THANK YOU ALL!
This event is a significant milestone in the journey envisioned in Overflow, but it is just the beginning in building and expanding our community–please reach out to our colleagues in Engagement (NPG, M&C) who have carried much of the weight for this event with your encouragement and appreciation. Most importantly, please continue to give God the glory and keep these efforts of building a community of high-capacity change makers in your ongoing prayers!
–MICHAEL J. MANTEL, Ph.D. | President & CEO, Living Water International