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Living Water For The World
Project Installations And Plans
Going Forward

Recent meetings at the Synod office of the Living Water for the World committee and the technical advisory group have produced plans for more installations, partnerships and water needs surveys.

Engineer John Gramling and project coordinator Wil Howie have just returned from a survey/partnership development trip to Orange Walk in Belize. They shared the journey with ten people from First Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama, and met with the Rev. Roldan Rios and members of the Belize Presbyterian Church in Orange Walk. The team identified six sites in need of purified water, including the community of Indian Church, where solar power will be necessary for operating a unit.

In mid-February, a team traveled to Haiti to install Unit #10 at the Bill Rice Clinic in Nouvelle Cite. George Hoge, Remi Van Comprenolle, David Maude and Don Shillington completed that installation. Another team, Don and Wil Howie and Gene Reed, went to Cherident to upgrade and repair Unit #8. Remi noted in the journal that he kept: "The mob of people at the airport illustrates the desperate condition... once out of the airport area, it reminded me of Nairobi, everyone lined up on both sides of the road, selling... Drive from Port au Prince to Wahoo Bay is about one and a half hours... The countryside is very dry and desolate... Again, the Haitian people are lined along the road, selling everything from suckers to carved wooden doors to charcoal that's prepared in the huts... We drove up (to the ferry) and after some time were able to park... vendors everywhere, people everywhere... crowded, like a movie... Limestone forms the entire island. White dust everywhere...

At worship: a message of the Gospel appropriate for the people... full church... incense burning and candles... My impression of this seems nearer to God than often in worship- people with little or nothing coming on faith/promise of the Kingdom.

New Video Available

"Water for Our Souls"

A new video is available for all friends of the Living Water for the World project. Filmed on an installation trip to Haiti by videographers Brad Van Demark and Stephen Hill, the seven and a half minute video provides details about the purification system and documentation about the people the project serves. It is available free for the asking from the Synod office.

Telephone:
615-261-4008

Email address:
livingwaters @ mindspring.com.

Mailing address:
Synod of Living Waters
318 Seaboard Lane, Suite 205
Franklin, TN 37067

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