Dale Hanson

In the Old Testament, King David was a shepherd, and he was raised in the town of Bethlehem.

And he wound up to the note of the king when he went to visit his brothers, and Goliath was out there, and David killed him with a sling, you know.

But ultimately, he winds up being the king of Israel.

And the people praised him.

They said, Saul has killed his thousands, but David his tens of thousands.

But David came from Bethlehem.

And the Philistine army had invaded the land and got between Bethlehem and David's army.

And he's sitting down at a day of fighting, and he says to himself, not realizing anyone heard it, he says to himself, oh, what I would give for a drink of water from my hometown in Bethlehem.

And three of his people heard it.

And out of their love and loyalty to David, they fought their way through the entire Philistine army, went to the well in Bethlehem and got a flask of water and fought their way all the way back to David and presented it to him.

And that's how I came up with the title of the book, Missions to the Well.

When we do things so selflessly,

at great cost and sacrifice and perhaps permanently maimed in some way or give our lives.

That's what David did.

His missions to the well were sacrificially, you at the cost of yourself do something for someone else.

And that's probably the kind of thing I would share to a family.

I'm not sure how many of them would take it, perhaps not at the beginning, but down the line they might.

Yeah.

Hmm.

I don't.