Ministry members insist that they distribute the 500 ml bottles to spread the Word of God; yet, one has to question their motives since this “miraculous” H20 is not freely offered to people, but instead sold for $0.50. This would be comparable to bottling the waters of Lourdes and selling it alongside Evian or Deer Park. When approached by fellow-Swazis about the difference between Jesus water and the traditional Swazi cleansing water (siwasho), Magongo responded, “My brother this is not siwasho. If you are a Christian you will understand this well. The Holy Spirit will tell you what this water is, but if you use your own understating you will get it all wrong and start to think this is siwasho”.
Perhaps “God's Purposed Kingdom Ministries” does truly want to spread the Word . . . but I find their intentions highly suspect, especially considering the part of the world they operate in. In 2005 the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture World Food Programme. In the report FAO revealed that “over the past decade, Swaziland has repeatedly experienced droughts or inadequate rainfall and resultant poor harvests.” (http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/J5512e/J5512e00.htm)
What better product than water to sell to people all too familiar with droughts? Offer them “holy” water and you not only sate their physical thirst, but their spiritual one as well.
Sorry, but this sounds like a scam.
Donald Tremblay
