We are excited to announce today the addition of Cory Akin as Director of Development. Through this new role, Cory will lead the ministry’s fundraising efforts and donor engagement. A graduate of Texas A&M, Cory comes to The Bucket Ministry with over 30-plus years in the defense industry. He previously served as Vice President of …
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We are excited to announce that, effective today, Derrick Mesulamu has been promoted to Executive Director of the Athi River campaign. The 28-year-old will oversee the local water filter distribution to one-quarter of the total population of Athi River, Kenya, living in the city’s four slums. “I first met Derrick in 2018 and believe the …
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Our US team was on an exploratory trip in Kenya in 2017, looking for larger-scale serving opportunities, and needed a driver and guide who knew the area. They were referred to a man named Ronald Rotich. Ronald, beyond working as a personal driver at the time, also owned a milk brokerage and tended to his …
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The Bucket Ministry is thrilled to announce the deepening of our partnership with Serve Hope. In this newly enhanced partnership, we will work alongside Serve Hope’s water-based ministry, Agua Pura, in providing clean water and the Gospel to Latin American communities. We will provide Agua Pura with all the necessary training and materials to accomplish …
It’s 2017. The Bucket Ministry is young, scrappy, and manned by less people than your average rowboat. We’re small but doing everything in our limited means to grow our mission field. That effort leads us to east Africa. Kenya, to be specific. Nairobi, Kenya, to be more so. The first 95% of the trip was …
Almost a year removed from the winter storm that knocked Texas on its heels, and the memory of water scarcity still commands a lingering feeling of unease in our minds. How fragile the infrastructure that affords us the privilege to always assume we’ll have clean, safe, drinking water at an arm’s reach. A few days …
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Missions, I’m writing this to you today from sunny Nairobi, Kenya. I have found myself in complete isolation after testing positive for COVID-19 and not being able to return home. I’m hoping to share my heart and thoughts about upcoming TBM mission trips with everyone either interested in or …
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