New Water In The Desert Assembly NWIDA

Like in other parts of Liberia, the civil war which started in December 1989, and disrupted life in western Liberia and compelled more than 150,000 residents to flee that region in August 1992 when former warring factions battled for the "souls" of the region-Tubmanburg, the main provincial town of Bomi County. That was the second major fighting in two years.

The first was in July and August 1990, when the country was severely pillaged for the first time. The second round of fighting was even more devastating. It uprooted the whole region and forced people to run in all directions for safety; some towards central Liberia; others, the majority sought refuge in thenation's capital, Monrovia. Three months later, as a consequence of the most devastating exchange of gun fire across the capital, commonly referred to as 'Octopus', the displaced people sheltering within central Monrovia were relocated to the western suburbs of the city where they created makeshifts huts referred to as 'Displaced Shelters'.

 
Amidst the prevailing confusion and destruction, some Christians displaced within one of the largest shelters, the VOA 1 (which hosts displaced and refugees) organized a couple of fellowship and prayer services amongst the displaced to meet their spiritual needs. Out of this great fellowship sprung out many local congregations, one of which was 'Water in the Desert' fellowship. It was established as a displaced fellowship in 1994. After the annulment of internal displacement in 1997 when the first phase of the civil war ended, about 72 members of this fellowship urged the pastor, Reverend Kortu K. Brown to established a regular local Church in the Brewerville Community, a settlement of more than a hundred years that became
home to uprooted people throughout the 14 years of civil conflict in Liberia. A regular assembly was launched in earnest after three days fast and prayer from December 29-31, 1997. Out of those spiritual consultations and business meetings, New Water in the Desert Assembly (NWIDA) developed and the Pastor was formally inducted on August 16, 1998.
 
In 2000, the church relocated about a mile from her previous site on a 10-acre piece of land where it planted cassava and built a "farm house¨ for the caretaker of the mission, the Church Administrator and the current 8-office second edifice out of dirt bricks. Since then weekly activities have expended and attendance has grown to the present five hundred or more persons including the regular worship service and children Sunday school which, runs concomitantly. Members come from within and without of Brewerville. 

In May 2001, NWIDA began relocating to her present site in the northwest of Brewerville when the area was cleared for cassava farm and a mission house was constructed. In 2002, a health center was constructed and a school, now a senior high with more than five hundred children constructed in the same year.