Recent Events

Hoover Walk

In 2003, Larry McAlpine began dedicating his August 5th birthday to walking for water and inviting others to join him and fundraise for a cause. It is now called “The Larry McAlpine Hoover Walk.” Although Larry passed away in 2017 after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer, his wife Pamela, family, and friends have continued to follow in his footsteps and walk each year on his birthday.

This year, the 19th Larry McAlpine Hoover Walk has raised over $25,000. This pushes their multi-year total to over $600,000 and over 90 wells drilled and rehabilitated.

Gary Lipman Invitational Golf Tournament

This past September, the 11th annual Gary Lipman Invitational Golf Tournament was held in Plano, Texas, with 112 golfers participating. This year’s tournament raised over $110,000 for clean water wells through World Hope. The primary sponsor this year was Baylor Scott & White, The Heart Hospital – Plano.

The evening before the golf event, a gala dinner and auction was held at Sent Church. Keynote speaker George Beals of World Hope shared about the benefits of fresh water to a community and that God allows His people to participate in the work of bringing wholeness and life.

Since 2011, the Gary Lipman Invitational Golf Tournament has made clean water its cause and partnered with World Hope to drill water wells in Africa, raising over $1.1 million. The golf outings have resulted in the drilling of 188 wells serving over