Raised 967.0038.50750.00110.0044.0080.0088.0050.0095.0038.5025.0030.0050.0050.0055.0050.0082.8455.00100.0055.0035.00110.0050.0035.0025.0025.00250.0020.0020.005.0050.0050.0038.50100.00100.00392.202020.00$6081
Completed
Goal $5000.00
121% to goal

About the Campaign

How It All Began:

In 2011, Ed Scharlau came to Texas Lutheran University to speak about Water to Thrive in our chapel. Afterwards, two students, Amy Lees and Wako Bungula, got together with Tim Barr, the Director of the Center for Servant Leadership, and decided that TLU should start fundraising for a water well.

One of the students, Wako, was actually from Ethiopia, and Amy had led a fundraiser and funded a well through her church some years before. After hearing about the group, Elisa Wellnitz joined as well because of her past history with Water to Thrive! And thus, along with a few other students, our first committee sprouted. That year, we planned and organized a Silent Auction and Benefit Dinner. The next year we re-grouped, added another student with W2T history, Chelsea Woodmancy, and had another Silent Auction and Benefit Dinner.

Fast forward to 2019: 

Our committee has now been an official student organization for several years. We host events throughout the year to raise awareness and allow the students, faculty, and staff to learn more about why we work so hard. This year we have improved efforts to do more presentations with local congregations and civic organizations to broaden awareness and invite others to join us in our mission of providing clean water.

We received so much support at our 2019 W2T dinner benefit and auction, we are already well on our way to funding our eighth well.  With the support of the TLU and surrounding communities we know we can make well #8 happen! Water to Thrive has brought awareness to our campus about something so simple we hardly think about it: clean water! Water is so important, it can change a person’s life: from spending all day walking to bring home diseased water, to having enough time to start school. We are all people of this Earth, and being a global citizen means that we need to care for each other!

Campaign Supporters

TLU Supporters - Virtual fundraiser - auction - $967
April 2021
Anonymous - $35
Christopher Gohmert - $750
Debbie Roberts - $100
Anonymous - $40
Robert Jonas - $80
Anonymous - $80
Anonymous - $50
Stan & Connie Meyer - $95
Anonymous - $35
Sather family - $25
Keep up the good work!
Anonymous - $30
Beth Woods - $50
Anonymous - $50
Anonymous - $50
Jennifer Brewer Ehlers - $50
Anonymous - $82
Marilyn D Sager - $50
Anonymous - $100
Thank you for all you do!
Stan & Connie Meyer - $50
Maren Scheie - $35
Anonymous - $100
Anonymous - $50
Anonymous - $35
dan - $25
Beta Alpha Sigma - $25
Anonymous - $250
Anonymous - $20
Anonymous - $20
Anonymous - $5
Supporters from Seguin, TX - $50
ALAN AND DEBBIE COTTRELL - $50
Debbie Roberts - $35
Aubrie Wells - $100
Love this TLU Water to Thrive Chapter! 💙
Honorary gift for TLU Alumnus, Dr. Ken Kramer - $100
First United Methodist Church - Seguin, TX - $392
TLU Supporters - $2020
Excess contributions from our Well #7 campaign