{"id":54149,"date":"2019-04-26T16:02:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T23:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=54149"},"modified":"2019-08-19T16:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:35:45","slug":"patricia-heaton-mission-clean-water-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/blog\/patricia-heaton-mission-clean-water-rwanda","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Heaton’s mission for clean water in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Actress <\/em>Patricia Heaton<\/em> considered a career in missions before her acting career took off. But God’s plan for her isn’t over!<\/em><\/p>\n

Patricia shares about her recent trip to Rwanda to visit children like Delphin who are in desperate need of clean water. <\/em><\/p>\n

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When I first moved to California from New York around 1990, I wasn’t getting many acting auditions. So, one of the first things I did was go to Mexico to help out in an orphanage outside of Tijuana. We spent a weekend repairing a sewage system, laying down a lawn, and throwing a party for the kids there.<\/p>\n

Before that time, I’d been completely focused on acting and success, but after spending time at the orphanage, I came back completely changed.<\/p>\n

Now I saw two doors that God might potentially open to me — acting and the love I had for that, but also serving the children at the orphanage. I asked God to make it apparent which door he wanted me to walk through by closing off either acting or missionary work.<\/p>\n

The acting auditions kept coming, and so I walked through that door, leaving behind the call to the mission field — or so I thought.<\/p>\n

Clean water for all in Rwanda<\/h2>\n

This February, I went to Rwanda<\/a> with World Vision to see some of their water work. In fact, World Vision and the Rwandan government have partnered on a goal to have clean water accessible to all Rwandans by 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s good news because I met a little boy named Delphin there. He’s 11 years old, but honestly, I thought he was about 6 or 7. He’s stunted by malnutrition and bouts of diarrhea brought on by drinking dirty water.<\/p>\n

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