Story of the Week: Watermelon Ministries
It’s nice to know you’re not alone.
As I was tossing around ideas for this story of the week, Jessi and Stephen mentioned Watermelon Ministries, an organization that has a similar vision and heartbeat as Bedouins International.
Based in Tennessee, Watermelon Ministries began in 2004 when Joshua MacLeod decided to leave his high-paying job as a manager of a courtroom presentation company to start a non-profit Christian organization dedicated to telling stories and planting seeds that would hopefully grow into a vine of connections. Thus, the name Watermelon Ministries.
Like Bedouins, Watermelon Ministries produces media such as photography, videos, websites, and print design for ministries for free. They also use their website to connect people with different outreach venues. One of their ministries pairs photographs (all taken by Joshua during his travels) with Bible verses to create Scripture prints to give away to nursing home residents. Another organization that Watermelon Ministries helped start is Garments of Praise which donates instruments to orphanages that couldn’t otherwise afford them.
In his blog, Joshua says that Watermelon Ministries has taken him to India, Chile, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, Sudan, and Ethiopia. They have helped 35 other ministries with an aim of “equipping thousands to reach millions.” In one of his posts he asks,“What would happen if rather than watch TV for a week, we went to go find someone to needs served, and served them?”
Watermelon Ministries is doing just that. Visit their website or Facebook page to find out more.
Each week Bedouins International posts a story. Maybe it’s one we’ve helped to tell, or a story we hope to tell, or it maybe it’s just a story we think deserves to be told. In any case, we hope you find them inspiring and motivating. Read more stories here.
Tags: Garments of Praise, Joshua MacLeod, planting seeds, Scripture prints, story of the week, Watermelon Ministries
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:49 am
Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?
October 26th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
as long as it is accurate, I think we’d be ok with that
where will you be posting?