Oak CrestThe 4- and 5-year-olds at Oak Crest Baptist Church, Greenville, were inspired to raise $1,800 to pay for a community well in an impoverished part of the world after hearing the story of Makiah Kaitlyn King of Cairo, Ga., a 4-year-old who was killed in a car accident in 2010.
Makiah’s family and friends established the Makiah Kaitlyn King Well Project to honor the child who, weeks before she died, told her parents she wanted to use the money in her piggy bank to help provide a well for people who needed clean drinking water.
The Makiah fund has provided for 10 wells so far and led to 150 professions of faith in Christ. The children’s Sunday school class at Oak Crest, led by teachers Kathy Hudgins and Phyllis Kay, has raised nearly half the amount it needs to fund a second well.
Makiah’s grandmother, Linda King, of Fairplay, visited the class to thank the children and to tell more of Makiah’s story.