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prove the functionality of the
standard system based upon
his observations from the
feld.
Some of their work is ex-
So what has he learned
along the way?
H
“Nothing
supplants building a relation-
ship with the people in the
church or community that
you will partner with when
you install a water system.
Often we are in too much
of a hurry to bother with
building those relationships
because we feel a need to
‘get the job done,’ and build-
ing those relationships takes
time. But the truth is that
those relationships are often
more important to our Op-
erating Partners than the sys-
tems we leave behind. If you
really want to make a difer-
ence in the lives of others, in-
vest your time, which in the
long run is much more valu-
able than anything else you
can ofer.”
Kendall Cox of Greenville,
Miss., is program director for Clean
Water U
.
By KENDALL COX
When you receive an e-
mail from Mark Vanciel, one
of our Clean Water U 103
lead instructors, you’ll see
that his signature line says,
“Clean Water is Medicine for
Life.” Mark and his wife Sally
have taken this message and
medicine to those in need in
Guatemala and have plans to
go to Haiti, Fiji, and possibly
Zambia and Ethiopia in 2012.
Mark and Sally became in-
volved with Living Waters af-
ter Mark had been on several
mission trips to Guatemala,
where he had seen frst-hand
the sufering of the people
caused by lack of clean drink-
ing water. While conducting
on-line research to fnd a cost
efective way to deal with
that problem, Mark came
across the Living Waters for
the World website.
The couple attended Clean
Water U at Camp Hopewell
in October 2007, and the very
next month led a water team
to Guatemala to install their
frst LWW System. At the
dedication of that system,
pastors of nearby churches
asked for installations for
their churches too, and since
that time the Vanciels have
returned to Guatemala twice
each year to work to bring
clean water to these neigh-
boring communities.
On each of those trips they
have taken teams from other
North American churches to
train them in the installation
process and help those teams
replicate the process on their
own. In addition to having
installed 10 systems in Guate-
mala, their church, First Pres-
byterian of Visalia, Calif., has
CWU Who: Mark and SallyVanciel —
Clean water is medicine for life, no less
also installed systems in Haiti
and assisted with installations
in Ecuador.
Mark and Sally are a tre-
mendous resource for LWW,
especially since the establish-
ment of the training campus
at Calvin Crest in Oakhurst,
Calif. Sally has served as a
Spanish language translator
for CWU students, and in
addition to his lead instruc-
tor position Mark also serves
on the Guatemala Network
Coordinating Team. He has
worked with the Design
Committee on how to im-
Mark Vanciel
Sally Vanciel
Our web site sporting a new look
By STEVE YOUNG
The next time you visit
, it will look
a bit diferent and you’ll fnd it more informative. We’ve
given the Living Waters for the World website a facelift,
unifying the color palette, and giving it a bit more contem-
porary feel.
The LWW status widget, which we wrote about in our
previous issue, has been incorporated into the sidebar. We
encourage you to place it on your web page as well – it’s
easy to do.
A new donation system has been developed, allowing di-
rect donations or donations in honor/memory of a loved
one, along with personalized, animated e-cards.
And our Installations menu item has been replaced
with a Where We Are menu item, linking to our installa-
tions page, as well as a world map showing where Living
Waters systems are installed.
So, take a moment to check it out, then send or share
the URL with your friends and family and help spread the
word about the Living Waters for the World ministry!
Steve Young of Franklin, Tenn., serves full-time on the LWW staf as
director of development.
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