A woman dips two cracked glasses straight into the Amazon River. Brown water. And she hands one to the guest standing in her home.

That guest was Christopher Beth. 56 years old. Zero ministry experience. A business consultant from Texas who only got on the plane to chaperone his teenage daughter’s mission trip — and who was so scared of being asked to speak that he spent the first two days hiding behind the trip’s pastor.

On day three, the pastor left him alone in a partially flooded home. That’s when the homeowner offered him a drink. Caught between offending his host and getting violently ill, he heard a quiet prompting from God: “Help them.”

Christopher didn’t go home and build a grand global strategy. He found a fifty-dollar water filter and had his family test it in a lake near their house in Texas. That was the plan. When he went back to Brazil to give filters away, one man took his filter and asked, “Why did you come to our village?” Christopher told him his story. The man said, “How can I have this Jesus?”

That one yes became The Bucket Ministry. During the pandemic they went door to door in Kibera, Kenya — 81,777 homes, clean water for over 400,000 people, the Gospel shared half a million times, and 21,000 people professing faith in Christ.

All of it started with a terrified guy in a flooded house who just decided to help.

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