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In 2004 formal Clean Water U courses
were established at Camp Hopewell, Mis-
sissippi, to perfect, codify, and spread the
knowledge of team building, education,
and construction and installation of the
established clean water system.
Thereafter both the number of inter-
ested parties involved and the number of
systems installed rapidly increased.
LWW plans for 2013 to be a celebratory
year in our history! A special 20th Anni-
versary Committee of Kendall Cox, Todd
Jenkins, Joanie Lukins, Bill Williams, and
Betty Anne Wilson will ensure that it is
so.
Bill Jansing, an elder in First Presbyterian
Church of Owensboro, Ky., is moderator of the Liv-
ing Waters for the World Committee.
No. 29 May 2012
Twentieth anniversary
of LWW’s founding
calls for a celebration
By BILL JANSING
In the year 2013 Living Waters for the
World will celebrate its 20th anniversary!
In 1993, the Synod of Living Waters,
believing that Jesus Christ is living water
for our bodies and souls, approved Liv-
ing Waters for the World (LWW) to work
toward the goal of providing clean water
for those in need. Thus began the story
of LWW.
Over the next several years a system
was developed for cleaning contaminat-
ed water. The first working system was
installed in Reynosa, Mexico in 1996. In
2000 the Synod of Living Waters made
LWWa full committee, and by the follow-
ing year six systems had been installed in
Mexico.
In this issue:
And now there are 1,372!
This is the March class of Clean Water U at Camp Hopewell in Mississippi,
raising to 1,372 the number of graduates since the first CWU in 2004. Three
more classes are scheduled this year, two at Hopewell and one at Calvin
Crest in California. See Coming Up, Page 4, and By the Numbers, Page 3.
By WIL HOWIE
Since stirring the hearts and minds of
a handful of dreamers back in the early
1990’s, the crisis of contaminated water in
the world still finds the Holy Spirit pow-
ering our work.
What a wonderful adventure this clean
water journey continues to be!
As I write this, here in our 19th year,
we will be hosting our 35th session of
Clean Water training at Hopewell Camp
and Conference Center outside of Ox-
ford, Miss. Now with nearly 1,400 part-
ners – from 38 states and 13 countries –
having already been trained, we celebrate
the results in the 451 clean water systems
installed in 24 countries and the 10 coun-
try networks established.
Who of us at the beginning would
have ever thought such things could be
possible?
And still we are being challenged
as the word of our good work spreads,
stretching us to grow – organization-
ally and financially – into this ministry.
Please know that without the prayers and
support of each of you, Living Waters for
the World could not exist.
I stand profoundly grateful and deep-
ly amazed; God is working through us.
Individuals, congregations and civic or-
ganizations who are joining hands and
hearts with brothers and sisters around
the world in the miracle of bringing good
news and clean water to communities in
need. Thank you partners; water saints
you are
.
The Rev. Wil Howie of Water Valley,
Miss., is founder and executive director of Liv-
ing Waters for the World.
Back in 1993,
who would
have thought?