Intentional Fatherhood (Interview with Scott Harrison of Charity Water)
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today we have Scott Harrison on the show. He is the founder and CEO of Charity Water which is a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. Scott is very intentional in everything he does especially being a father. He has an incredible story and he is an incredible human. We cover his life, the origin story of charity water and how he had such a faithful and incredible father himself. We cover the hard path Scott followed and the story of Gods redemption of a fascinating prodigal son story which has resulted in some world changing endeavors. We know you will be encouraged and blessed by this conversation. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode we have Scott Harrison. Now before we get into this |
| 0:04.9 | week's podcast just a little bit of backstory this past January 2020 before COVID |
| 0:09.9 | hit I was in New York City interviewing a handful of people and Scott Harrison who is the |
| 0:14.7 | CEO and founder of an amazing organization called Charity Water met up with me and we had a great |
| 0:20.9 | conversation he's been a friend for a bit now and I wanted to kind of capture his story which is inspiring which you'll hear and what it's like to be a dad of two kids in the middle of New York City running this incredible nonprofit organization. |
| 0:34.0 | If you don't know, Charity Water is an incredible organization that with more than 1 million donors |
| 0:40.6 | worldwide, they've raised over 450 million dollars and funded |
| 0:45.1 | over 51,000 water projects in 28 countries and when they're all done with this |
| 0:49.8 | over 11 million people will have clean, safe drinking water. |
| 0:53.6 | And that's just the beginning. |
| 0:55.2 | He's an inspiring person. |
| 0:56.8 | He loves Jesus very much. |
| 0:58.0 | He has an incredible story. |
| 0:59.7 | And so we're now releasing this. |
| 1:01.7 | Mid- Pandemic, we were planning on releasing it, |
| 1:04.3 | but we felt it was appropriate to pause |
| 1:06.4 | and address the cultural moment |
| 1:07.9 | that we all found ourselves in. |
| 1:09.4 | And so now, in mid-August, we are releasing this episode to you. |
| 1:14.0 | Nonetheless, I know you will be encouraged. |
| 1:16.2 | I know you will enjoy. |
| 1:18.0 | So please enjoy this interview with Scott Harrison. |
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