Grace UMC team to raise funds, awareness through ‘Walk for Water’

It has been a tradition of Grace United Methodist Church, Charleston, to have a team of walkers participate in the Charleston Walk for Water held at Riverfront Park each year. The walk simulates what it is like for the many women and children who walk three or more miles each day to gather water for their families.

A fundraising event, Walk for Water is hosted by Water Mission, a Christian organization headquartered in North Charleston whose mission is to end the global water crisis.

Millions of people around the world live in communities that do not have clean, safe water for their daily use and rely on gathering water from the same streams and watering holes used by wild animals. Water Mission is working to change that through the installation of water filtration systems and hygiene and sanitation systems in these communities, and they share the gospel with those communities, too. Water Mission responds with their water filtration and sanitation solutions to areas affected by natural disasters and to areas where people are displaced by war and unrest.

The organization depends on donations and also raises funds by holding events in various locations called the “Walk for Water” to fund their efforts. Their fundraising goal for this year’s Charleston Walk for Water is $700,000. 

Grace UMC and other Walk for Water participants begin the walk carrying empty buckets following a route that winds from Riverfront Park in North Charleston through the old Navy base to the Water Mission facility and then back to the park. After passing through the Water Mission facility, they dip their buckets in pools of dirty water and then make their way back to the park carrying their full or semi-full buckets, which they empty into pools outfitted with filtration systems after crossing the finish line. 

This year’s Charleston Walk for Water is scheduled for Saturday, March 29, and Team Grace UMC has set a fundraising goal of $2,500.

Learn how to help Team Grace UMC at https://walkforwater.rallybound.org/2025-walk-for-water/Team/View/202277/Grace-UMC.

For more information about the work of Water Mission at https://watermission.org.