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By HEIDI CLAUSEN
In February, Tom Ritter led
a water team fromTrinity Pres-
byterian Church in Starkville,
Miss., and Leland (Miss.) Pres-
byterian Church to El Salva-
dor.
The group also included Paul
Thompson, Heidi Clausen, Lee
Stovall, and Daniel Lopez, the
former LWW coordinator. Kris-
ti VanNostran, Joining Hands
against Hunger Presbyterian
missionary, also worked with
the team.
Despite some difficulties —
including four flat tires! —the
group visited 10 of the country’s
12 LWW sites and convened an
operators’ conference.
The group found that two
of the water systems are facing
difficulties, one not operating
due to competition and lack of
community support and the
other experiencing serious is-
sues related to its water source.
The others are generally do-
ing well. The Santa Cruz site is
a model system, run by a local
health promoter and offering
an organized delivery system,
providing clean water to 80 lo-
cal families.
Although the operators’ con-
ference was smaller than hoped
for, it went very well. The par-
ticipants had a chance to meet
and get to know one another, as
well as to discuss technical and
legal issues.
In addition, the LWW team
also met with several organiza-
tions to network and explore
future installation sites, and es-
tablished an LWW “bodega,” or
storage space, in San Salvador.
Heidi Clausen is a member of the
water team of Trinity Presbyterian
Church in Starkville, Miss.
BY THE NUMBERS
LWW installations to date: 451
Countries with operating systems: 24
In-country networks: 10
Volunteers trained at CWU: 1,372
Birth announcements
Latest installations,
January-May 2012
3
Cuba Network
• El Fuerte Church, Cardenas, Cuba
St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Ch., New Orleans LA
Ghana Network
• Immanuel Congregation and School, Madina, Ghana
IP Idlewild Presbyterian Church, Memphis TN
Guatemala Network
• Iglesia Brazo Fuerte, Los Alamos, San Miguel Petapapa
IP Woodland United Methodist Church, Montgomery AL
Haiti Network
• Little Brothers of St. Therese - Palmiste auVin,
St. Michael de Sud and Beaudin, Haiti
IP Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Huntsville AL
• St. Michel’s Parish, Boucan Carre, Haiti
IP Church Street United Methodist Ch., Knoxville TN
• PCA-El Shaddai Ministries, Les Cayes, Haiti
IP Grandview United Methodist Church, Winfield KS
Honduras Network
• Village of Cebu, Yoro, Honduras
IP Advent Presbyterian Church, Cordova TN
• Water Administration Committee, El Aguaje, Honduras
IP Christian Community Presbyterian Ch., Bowie MD
Yucatan Network
• Iglesia Monte Horeb, Cedralito, Mexico
IP Park Presbyterian Church, Newark NY
• Lirio de los Valles Church, Caobas, Mexico
IP First United Presbyterian, Dale City VA
Appalachia
• James and Myrtle Hoover home, Speedwell, TN
IP First Presbyterian Church, Morristown TN
• John and Janet Woods home, Tazewell TN
IP Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church, Kingsport TN
Non-Network
• Escuela Indigenes, Ometepec, Mexico
IP Idlewild Presbyterian Church, Memphis TN
By PIERCE BUFORD
In January, Kathy and Jerry
Vaughan and Pierce Buford — veter-
an travelers for Living Waters for the
World — once again loaded the LWW
exhibit into the Vaughans’ truck.
This time they were headed to
Grand Rapids, Mich., to attend the As-
sociation of Presbyterian Church Edu-
cators Conference. Once there, Jenny
Thagard, a Christian Educator from
Tuscaloosa, Ala., also assisted in man-
ning the booth. This is the sixth APCE
conference attended by LWW.
This year the exhibit focused on
the Vacation Bible School curriculum.
APCE participants could look over the
actual curriculum and see the crafts
that children would make as they at-
tend a Living Waters for the World
VBS.
How exciting to hear educators
praise the curriculum, and to have
them encourage those who had not
used it to do so.
In addition, three copies of the VBS
Clean Water Training curriculum were
given away to thrilled APCE partici-
pants.
Also on display were LWW bro-
chures, a Water Crises flyer, pictures
of installations and persons at various
locations, flags of each country with
number of installations, LWW items
for sale, LWW information sheets that
could be used by churches, informa-
tion on Clean Water U and the dates,
Living Waters for the World Teen and
Youth Awareness flyer, and the Wa-
termarks devotional book. The LWW
DVD played throughout the day.
As always Mary Weber’s crocheted
necklaces were a big hit….donations
received were almost enough to pay
expenses to the conference.
Amodel of an actual systemwas also
on display at the booth as the LWW in-
formational DVD played throughout
the day.
Pierce Buford of Birmingham, Ala., travels
widely to promote LWW.
LWW road team does the APCE thing
Mississippi team surveys work
at 10 sites in El Salvador