Living Water Project's Celebration Dinner Set for October 25

After a three-year pandemic hiatus, the Living Water Project Board of Directors is thrilled to invite you to the 2022 Celebration and Fundraising Dinner. Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, Oct. 25 at Otter Creek Church of Christ.

This year, we’re excited about honoring our special partnership with Adicay and Lipscomb University in Guatemala, where a massive water project was dedicated on Friday, July 29. At the dinner, you’ll hear more about that project and its enormous impact on 126 families in three communities.

Hand Pump Installed in Liberia a Significant Upgrade for Village's Water Source

We’re proud to showcase another LWP well completed in July—a hand pump in Cooper Farm, Liberia. This project was made possible through our partnership with Alfred Beyan, a minister from Monrovia, Liberia. Alfred travels all over the country with a team from his church, preaching the gospel and bringing clean water to remote villages like this one. A photo of the community's original water source explains the dire need this well filled .

Would you be willing to become a monthly donor to the Living Water Project? Your monthly dollars—however great or small—will help us plan more projects like this one. Read more about the importance of monthly giving in this blog post..

Annual Zambia Campaign: A History of Our Partnership

Curious about our history of partnership in Zambia? In 2010, former Living Water Project board member Caroline Martin was volunteering as a clinical supervisor with Harding University’s Speech Pathology group at Zambia’s Namwianga Mission. As she was riding to the airport to return to the United States, she struck up a conversation with her driver. Caroline asked him if any villages in the area needed clean water, and he replied that yes, there was a dire, practically unlimited need.

The driver was Shadreck Sibwaalu, a native Zambian who has managed the well-building work of the mission since 2004. That conversation began a fruitful partnership that continues to today. Since 2011, Living Water has partnered with the Namwianga Mission to oversee the construction of 103 water wells, with more than $400,000 committed to clean water projects.

For more about the Living Water Project’s Zambia connection, read Caroline’s first-hand account on this previous blog post, and watch a presentation from Board Member Kevin Colvett in this YouTube video.

Please consider being a part of this year's Zambian campaign—and help us get closer to our $25k goal! Donate at this link.


Annual Zambia Campaign Gets Creative Boost From Pella, Iowa

The Living Water Project is excited about kicking off our annual Zambia Campaign. We set an ambitious goal this year—$25k—but we're excited to announce that we're already 1/3 of the way there!

Thanks to an incredible $8,400+ donation from Faith Church in Pella, Iowa, where a Sunday School class collected donations over this past winter and spring, new wells will soon be a reality in Zambia.

Don't miss this local news video detailing church members' creativity in fundraising. We had never imagined fundraising through a snow and ice sculpture, but it was obviously very effective! We’ll never forget the ingenuity and generosity of the Wiersma family!

Please consider adding your donation to that of our friends in Pella—these funds will be put to work right away for the people of Zambia!

It’s easy to donate—click this link.

LWP's Water Walk on May 22: An Interactive Experience & Community Celebration

Please mark your calendars for our Water Walk on Sunday, May 22. The event will be held at Otter Creek Church of Christ's Brentwood campus from 1–3 p.m.

Spend a fun afternoon with friends learning more about the Living Water Project's global partners and water projects—past and present. You'll also have the chance to experience a glimpse of what the water-gathering experience is like for millions of people around the world. And yes, we'll also have refreshments!

Cool Water on a Hot Day: A Look Back at LWP Work in Niger

You’ll enjoy the photo above and below from 2015, when we partnered with Final Command Ministries to fund several wells in Niger, not far from the Sahara Desert. One of the wells was drilled in the village of Mayanga Gourma. For the well dedication ceremony, the women wore stunning traditional African clothes, and guests were welcomed with great hospitality. The temperature that day was over 110 degrees, and the new source of clean water was immediately put to good use!

Well Dedication Day

Villagers in Mayanga Gourma in Niger celebrate well dedication day!

LWP Supports Exile International's Peace Lives Center With Water Project

While in the Democratic Republic of Congo in April 2022,, Living Water Project (LWP) board member Jon Lee visited Exile International’s Peace Lives Center in the city of Goma, where rescued child soldiers are being empowered to become leaders for peace.

LWP funded a rainfall catchment system at the Peace Lives Center in 2013, which consists of two 10,000 liter tanks and one smaller one for cooking, cleaning and handwashing. Thanks to donors like you, former child soldiers have access to clean water while being served, rehabilitated and taught the peaceful message of Christ.

LWP Sponsors Rainfall Catchment Systems in Democratic Republic of Congo

In April 2022, Living Water Project (LWP) board member Jon Lee traveled from the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where he was on the ground connecting with our partners who oversee the LWP-sponsored water work there, both at Pinson School and Exile International.

The DRC is currently our only partnering country where drilling for wells is not possible due to volcanic rock beneath the surface. Instead of a well, we funded two rainfall catchment systems at Pinson School, the first one in 2015 and the second in 2021. That system consists of two 10,000 liter tanks that capture and store some of the abundant rainwater through a gutter system around the buildings. The catchment systems are the main water source for the 900+ students at Pinson School, plus several hundred more residents in the surrounding village. Due to the availability of clean drinking water, the Christian school has become well-known in the area and is a light in its community.

The yellow jugs pictured are 5-gallon cans for the students and their families to collect their water. After school ends at 1 p.m., the water becomes available to anyone in the community.

Pinson School is 1/4 mile down the road from our friends at Exile International. There is a special relationship between Pinson and Exile, as several Exile kids also attend the school.

World Water Day 2022: Help Living Water Project Go With the Flow

The photo above is from LWP Board Member Kevin Colvett's recent trip to Guatemala, where the Living Water Project and Lipscomb University’s Peugeot Center engineering students are partnering with nonprofit ADICAY on a water project serving more than 1,000 people. The project officially broke ground in January 2022.

"People are moving several hundred thousand pounds of cement, rock, sand and iron on their backs to build this project, and they will be digging by pick and shovel over six miles of trench to bury the pipe 2.5 feet in the ground," Kevin says. "It's an incredible amount of work. But we have had such an incredible reception and encouragement from the three communities this project will serve."

You can be a part of funding this water project and future work in Guatemala and around the world. Please consider donating to LWP in honor of World Water Day! https://www.livingwaterwells.org/donate