What Is the Bridge Builders Community Partnership?
GFA World’s Bridge Builders community partnership is a network of people who support the work of GFA throughout Africa and Asia with a monthly donation. This community helps provide clean water in neighborhoods without access to this daily necessity, feeds the hungry, cares for the poor and the forgotten, helps impoverished children access education and break the poverty cycle, equips local volunteers to provide essential medical services, and uplifts marginalized women with opportunities to support their families. GFA pastors and missionaries also provide spiritual counsel and nourishment.
A monthly gift of $19 connects donors to this work. Each monthly donor helps support students, strengthen families, and help communities escape poverty. Because Bridge Builders give each month, field partners can plan ahead and keep ministry going long-term.
How Bridge Builders Make an Impact
Bridge Builders make an impact through steady monthly giving, which lets field partners plan ahead and sustain long-term work. Their gifts fund clean water projects, children’s education, medical care, and spiritual support — reaching communities that need steady help, not one-time relief.[1]
An excellent example of our impact is providing clean water to needy communities. Access to clean drinking water is essential for life, yet 1.1 billion people worldwide do not have it. Contaminated water can cause sickness and, in some cases, death.[2]
In many African and Asian countries, contaminated water can lead to diseases like diarrhea, cholera and typhoid. These diseases affect individuals and entire communities; approximately 1.8 million people, mostly under five years old, die annually from diarrhea. Frequent illness prevents parents from working and children from going to school, so the poverty cycle continues.
In sub-Saharan Africa, girls and women can spend hours a day searching for water. This activity takes up precious time that could be spent on school or work.
There is hope! GFA World has helped 38 million people access clean drinking water, and the Jesus Wells initiative provides communities with clean water that is available to everyone. Each well can serve 300 people a day for more than 20 years. The well is maintained by a local GFA pastor or missionary.
For people who have access to water but need to purify it, GFA World provides BioSand water filters to remove harmful impurities. Vatya grew up drinking contaminated water, not knowing it was dangerous. Wealthy people could afford clean water, but this was not an option for his family. Drinking contaminated water exposed them to disease and led to stomachaches and rotten teeth. When Vatya’s family received a BioSand water filter, their lives were forever changed. They finally experienced the satisfaction and delight of drinking clean water, and their health improved. Vatya decided to help others access clean water to experience the same joy.[2]
Supporters will receive updates showing how monthly gifts change lives across Africa and Asia. Stories like Vatya’s happen because Bridge Builders give faithfully, letting partners bring clean water and hope where it’s needed most.
A Community Rooted in Faith
“But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:17-18 NKJV).[3] Bridge Builders live out this call by sharing God’s love through real, steady care.
Joining the Bridge Builders means becoming part of thousands who believe faithful giving changes lives. Donors and partners work together to make lasting change — the kind no single gift could.
Each Bridge Builder fills a vital role. Together, this community of givers reaches places and touches lives that no one person could reach alone.
Bridge Builders are part of something bigger than one gift — a worldwide community bound by faith and compassion. Month after month, their support fuels clean water, education, medical outreach, and Gospel ministry across nations.
For only $19 per month, you can become a Bridge Builder and help impoverished families access clean drinking water. Your contribution can transform lives and create brighter futures for families struggling without this vital resource. Become a Bridge Builder today!
Learn more about GFA’s Bridge Builders![1] “Drinking-water.” World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/drinking-water.
[2] “Access to Clean Drinking Water: Solutions from GFA World.” GFA World. https://gospelforasia.org/water-solutions/access-to-clean-drinking-water-solutions.
[3] 1 John 3:17-18. New King James Version. Bible Gateway. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A17-18&version=NKJV.