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318 Seaboard Lane, Suite 205 Franklin, Tennessee 37067-8289 phone 615/261-4008 No. 13 — October 2007 www.livingwatersfortheworld.org In this Coincidence? No way! issue: Denomination’s vacation Bible school plan • LWW on to feature LWW, and that’s a story … YouTube How did a Presbyterian Church promote the water mission’s own est Adventure curriculum will use • Fund honors (U.S.A.) vacation Bible school VBS curriculum, “Clean Water for LWW as its mission example. Two theme on the rain forests of Peru All God’s Children.” They called the initiating partners in the Peruvian Tom Carroll wind up linking so neatly with Liv- denomination’s educational office water projects, William Milam of ing Waters for the World? in Louisville to request a reference Knoxville, Tenn., and Maggie • Database God seems to have been pull- to LWW’s curriculum in the PCUSA Hendrix of Dunnellon, Fla., (whose goes modern ing the strings. catalog of educational materials. teams trained at the April 2007 “An amazing story worth telling “During the call,” Young said, session of Clean Water U) are pro- • New video — one of the many that seem to “they mentioned that they were one viding photos of their recent trips. surround this project,” LWW ad- week away from having to send the As the featured mission of the out in June ministrator Steve Young called it. publisher of the Rainforest Adven- denomination’s VBS curriculum, The theme for PCUSA’s ture curriculum (Augsburg For- LWW will receive any contributions • Manny got planned 2008 VBS curriculum is tress) specific information about a that come from use of the cur- wet, all right “Rainforest Adventure: A Tree Top Presbyterian mission project that riculum in vacation Bible schools Bible Blast,” set in Peru. Some could be tied to the curriculum. across the nation. • Numbers: 1,500 congregations across the “They had not yet been able to In addition, part of the suggested denomination will use it. nail down anything that was a good use of the curriculum will be to We hit 156 Young and Joanie Lukins of fit. Imagine how they reacted when show the new LWW video, which Danville, Ky., chief designer I shared with them that, just weeks also uses the name, “Clean Water • Hurricane of LWW’s health and hygiene ago, the first two LWW clean water for All of God’s Children.” brings response education teaching materials, systems were installed in Peru!” “Please join us in giving thanks,” had been discussing ways to So it was decided. The Rainfor- Young urged. • Appalachia work grows

•High times in Peru

• Calendar for 2007-08

• Building up at Hopewell

Colorful handprints and autographs tion Bible school curriculum, contributed of children at Sycamore Presbyterian $4,378 to LWW as a result. Some 30 per- Church in Cincinnati adorn a gift banner cent of church contributions come from made for children of the Yucatan. The outside the synod, according to Steve church, one of several outside the Synod Young (left), LWW administrator. At right of Living Waters to use the LWW vaca- is LWW Committee’s Bob Armistead. Check us out on YouTube — Video gets hundreds of hits

Living Waters for the World is on YouTube. need clean water, how to lead health and hygiene instruction The ultra-popular Web site now displays a two-minute and how to install, operate and maintain a water purification video to explain what we do to help bring clean water to a system,” he said. thirsty world. Added on June 23 to YouTube, the site that enables the On the clip, LWW administrator Steve Young — while average Joe to showcase videos of just about anything, the walking down a street in a Mexican town with a group of LWW video has already been viewed more than 2,700 times. children — talks about the world’s critical situation involving Thirty-six people also have posted comments about the video clean water, and how the LWW “trains and equips mission and LWW. teams to share the gift of clean water with communities in “It’s what people are saying beneath the video, that’s what need.” has been so exciting,” Young said. “The world’s water crisis is massive. Half the world’s The YouTube video, also available for churches and civic population lacks access to something you and I take for organizations to run as public service announcements in their granted every day — clean water,” Young said as he stood local broadcast markets, is part of a number of things LWW in a community helped via LWW near Campeche, Mexico. is doing to spread the organization’s message to a broad “And as a result, millions die each year from preventable audience. water-related illness, and most are children.” LWW also has produced a new film, Clean Water for All “We invite you and your fellow team leaders to join us God’s Children, which can be viewed from the LWW Web site. at Clean Water U, our training program, where you will A link to the YouTube video is on the home page of LWW’s learn how to build strong partnerships with those who own Web site, www.livingwatersfortheworld.org. Memorial fund honors pioneer Tom Carroll, father of projects in Appalachia, Amazon

To honor the work of Tom Carroll, or by mail. one of the architects of LWW, a memo- Donate online via this link: www.l rial fund has been established to further ivingwatersfortheworld.org/PageD- work that he founded in Appalachia and Donate.php. From within the PayPal in the Amazon basin of Brazil. system, click “Add Special Instructions Carroll, a resident of Kingsport, Tenn., to Merchant” and specify “Tom Carroll and an elder in Reedy Creek Presbyte- Memorial Fund.” Add your mailing ad- rian Church there, died August 5 after dress, so that the family may thank you a valiant struggle with non-Hodgkin’s personally. lymphoma. By mail, make checks out to Living The Tom Carroll Memorial Fund will Waters for the World and specify “Tom raise funds to further LWW water mis- Carroll Memorial Fund.” Mail checks sion efforts in Appalachia and along the to: Living Waters for the World, 318 Amazon. Seaboard Lane, Suite 205, Franklin, TN While those efforts were close to his 37067. heart and had absorbed much of his time Born in Virginia, Carroll, 74, moved to before his health failed, he also was a Kingsport at an early age. He was a Ko- faithful member of the LWW Committee rean Conflict veteran and a retiree from and of its Technical Task Force. Eastman Chemical Company. He was “Tom epitomized mission,” said Bill an active Rotarian. Williams, moderator of the LWW com- Survivors include his wife, Eula, two mittee. “He believed, he promoted, he daughters, a brother, a sister and two participated personally and — when it Tom Carroll grandchildren. become no longer possible for him to Courtesy Hemlett-Dobson Funeral Home Tom’s granddaughter Victoria told her be present in person -— he continued was rock solid, an outstanding witness to mother, Vicki, “Now Pop-Pop is portable to support and speak whenever pos- the love and grace of Jesus Christ.” — we can carry him with us in our hearts sible.” Contributions to the Tom Carroll Me- wherever we go.” Wil Howie, director of LWW, said, “Tom morial Fund may be made either on line We can’t put it any better than that. Do-it-yourself database is goal of modernized status reports

Remember what you started out years ago as a through LWW administrators, learned at Clean Water U Microsoft Word document on the only interface most LWW By the numbers about the On-Line Trip Re- Wil Howie’s first Pentium PC. folks have with it at present (at latest count) port? Well, get ready for the Over the years, the Status of is through the On-line Trip new improved version. Projects (SOP) database has Report. 156: Installations With the help of technology grown in size and importance Right now, the On-line Trip guru Pam Gunn and the data to the point that it is now a Report generates an E-mail 250: Total projects input of Ralph Young, LWW web-based SQL database that is sent to Ralph Young 130: Initiating partners will soon be able to let Initiat- residing on the Living Waters and several other LWW staff. 225: Operating partners ing Partners control their own server in Franklin, Tenn. Ralph takes the data from sections of the computerized Today this database tracks the On-line Trip Report and 21: Countries involved database on projects and in- over 250 LWW projects and re-enters it into the SOP da- stallations. 156 installations worldwide. tabase. Mexico leads the way with An electronic database Except for limited access These methods were fine about 70 projects, Guatemala when Living Waters was is next with 45 projects on the working with 10 projects per list. year. In today’s environment of 50 to 100 projects per year, Overall, the database will multiple data entry is unpro- be expanded to include more ductive. information on the Health & For this reason, data input Hygiene aspects of a LWW to the SOP will change in project. Comment fields have 2008. Pam Gunn has been been added and expanded, working diligently the past plus access to past com- several months to upgrade ments will be available. the SOP database so that We anticipate that exist- Initiating Partners will have ing Initiating Partners will be access to input data for their trained on these changes via own projects. an E-learning module devel- Login ID’s and Passwords oped in collaboration with will be issued to each team Career Currency in Memphis, leader so that they or their Tenn. (www.careercurrency. designee can input the data. com). These leaders will have read- Stay tuned for these excit- only access to other informa- ing changes and let the clean tion in the database. water flow! For your calendar NOTE: The November 2007 CWU has been canceled

• Oct. 17-21 —Clean Water U, Camp Hopewell • Oct. 31-Nov. 2 — LWW task forces, Franklin • Nov. 26 — LWW Committee, Franklin • Jan. 28, 2008 — Synod meeting, Franklin • Feb. 17, 2008 — Clean Water Sunday offering The water’s fine • March 5-9, 2008 — Clean Water U, Camp Hopewell CWU alumnus Manny Opoku, who directs • March 26-28, 2008 — LWW task forces, Franklin operations at the Memphis Food Bank, gets • April 9-13, 2008, Clean Water U, Camp Hopewell doused during a water fight that capped a • April 21, 2008 — LWW Committee, Franklin long, hot week in a warehouse that wasn’t • April 30-May 4, 2008 — Clean Water U, Camp Hopewell air conditioned. Warehouse workers, call- • July 30-Aug. 1, 2008 — LWW task forces, Franklin ing themselves the Hot Tamales, challenged • Aug. 18, 2008 — LWW Committee, Franklin workers in the air conditioned office, the Cool • Sept. 10-14, 2008 — Clean Water U, Camp Hopewell • Oct. 1-5, 2008 — Clean Water U, Camp Hopewell Cucumbers. It was the eighth day for tem- • Oct. 22-26, 2008 — Clean Water U, Camp Hopewell peratures to top 100 degrees. • Nov. 19-21, 2008 — LWW task forces, Franklin — Photo by A.J. Wolfe, courtesy The Commercial Appeal, Memphis • Dec. 8, 2008 — LWW Committee, Franklin November conference to promote systems in Appalachia Not all Living Waters for the World systems are located in far corners of the earth. A growing number are found in the United States. “In Our Backyard,” in fact, is the title of a workshop for inter- ested individuals, churches and organizations in Appa- lachia. The event, open to anyone, is scheduled November 9-10 at the Clearfork Learning In- The church housing a Living Waters for the World water system was stitute in Eagan, Tenn. That’s one of the few thatched structures in Blanca Flor, Mexico, to survive off Interstate 75 in rural Clai- Hurricane Dean. A big tree just missed the building. borne County, in the north- eastern part of the state. Sponsored by LWW, the conference will provide infor- Hurricane! mation about the 16 home systems installed on Viking Living Waters systems help residents Mountain Road near Green- eville, Tenn., the first U.S.- of Yucatan recover from big storm based systems. Attendees will also tour As Hurricane Dean’s Cat- several of the Buffalo Creek egory 5 winds roared toward Our brothers and sisters in the Yucatan area continue to Water Association’s in-home the Yucatan Peninsula of express their gratitude for our partnership with them. systems that incorporate Mexico in late August, area In November, the second annual Continuing Education technology to remove iron. residents braced for the Conference for system operators within the Yucatan Net- The goal of the conference worst. Living Waters for the work will be held in Campeche City, attended by perhaps is to explore possibilities for World was there. 75 Mexican operators and 5 technical advisors from Living expanding the use of in-home In the village of Hampolol, Waters for the World. water treatment systems into just north of Campeche City, other corners of Appalachia. where people were in the south, near the Belize border, Unfortunately, as in all natural If the group indicates suf- predicted path of the storm, the storm uprooted trees, tore disasters, it is the very poor ficient interest, steps may the pastor of the Presbyterian down power lines and sent who suffer most. be taken toward formation church invited all people in thatched roofs and tin roofs In the tiny village of Blanca of an Appalachian Network, the community to come to fill flying. Flor, just a few miles inland an organization that would up whatever water contain- The most serious damage from where Dean made land- allow users to share informa- ers they had, so that in the was to crops: Nearly all of the fall, damage was tremendous, tion and promote use of the aftermath of the storm, when corn and other grain crops but the LWW water system systems. clean water might not be were lost, which means that was protected by the strength A conference fee of $20 available, the people would farmers will have no income of the building built to house includes three meals and have enough to drink. this year. Beekeeping is a it. Power was knocked out to materials. Participants will This gesture of good will common occupation in the the town water pump, so that be responsible for their own by the church there has area, as well, and because even dirty water was unavail- housing accommodations. made a lasting impression all of the flowers were liter- able at first. When power was Reservations with the of- on the people about the way ally blown off of the trees, the restored, the Living Waters fice of the Synod of Living in which Christians care for honey crop will be drastically clean water system was able Waters are due by November others. reduced. to produce clean water for 1. Details are available from Damage in the north of It is an economic disaster the people, who stood in line the office manager, Emily the peninsula turned out not of significant proportions, to receive it after their small Dunbar, at 615-261-4008, or to be great, and life returned and the recovery will take personal stores of water were by E-mail at emily@livingwat quickly to normal. But further months, maybe even years. depleted. ersfortheworld.org. We’re in Peru — way up in Peru

The Uros people live on unique floating islands on Peru’s Lake Titicaca, 12,000 feet above sea level — so high that several members of the water mission team from Lower Providence Presby- terian Church in Eagleville, Pa., suffered from altitude sickness. A different kind of sickness affects the Uros: The lake water is contaminated, and residents suffer from high in- cidences of dysentery, hepa- titis and other water-borne diseases. One team member, Tom Gamble, was making his 14th mission trip, and he said it was “by far the most unique and difficult of any.” Still, he said, “The connection with the people made it special.” The Uros speak a dialect of Spanish, which made a translator essential, but the people’s friendliness and appreciation of what the team was doing overcame obstacles. They called the installation “historic,” the first time anyone had done any- Water team members with the Uros on Lake Titicaca include (back thing for them, including their row, starting second from left, Nanette LaFors, Janet Smith, government. Betty Rae McKie and Olivia May. The 16-member team, including six from Pittsburgh Florida. Their multi-purpose ing long sections of PVC mary contact person was so and Texas, carried 13 suit- trip covered a variety of mis- pipe. capable that “by the end of cases of equipment, all of sion activities in several sites That was one of the les- the week, the only function which arrived on time. “Oth- over a period of almost two sons learned by the team Steve Hoadley and I needed erwise,” said team member weeks, including installation from Westminster Presbyteri- to do was the ‘Bubba Pose.’” Dave Smith, “in would have of a water system in Alto an Church in Knoxville, Tenn., Other lessons that might be been impossible to install Cayma. when they installed a water helpful to other teams: the system in the four days The team conducted water system in June in Peru’s • Check not only the fre- allotted.” surveys in three other poten- fabled Valley of the Incas. quency and voltage of the Part of the group visited tial sites. One such place, A team from the church electrical service, but the other sites to test existing team leader Maggie Hendrix had conducted an eyeglass gauge of wire and the qual- wells and to tell people about reported, was the high des- mission at the Kausay Wasi ity of service at the site. The the Uros’ system. One such ert mining village of Vilcani, Clinic in the town of Coya in wiring turned out to be inad- trip was a 17-hour trek to where 164 people live in 2006, and while they were equate to support the pump a lawless gold mining site woven mat huts 14,000 feet there they did a site survey the team had brought with it. 18,000 feet above sea level. above sea level. for a water project. •Take extra hardware for at- “You learn to trust God,” Water for the village comes The clinic is a full-service taching the board to the wall. team member Nanette La- from a well three miles away, medical facility, but it had no Peruvian masonry turned Fors said. which is clean at its source. It economical source of clean out to be harder than typical ——— is quickly polluted, however, water. American types. Dunnellon at Alto Cayma, because all of the containers It turned out to be an ideal • E-mail access is a huge and upwards to 14,000 feet available to hold it are dirty. installation site, team mem- asset. “I would be concerned Another installation in Peru ——— ber William Milam said. The for a group performing their was made in June by a five- Knoxville team installs staff is skilled and fluent in first installation without ac- member team from Dunnel- in Valley of the Incas Spanish and Quechuan, and cess to LWW experts,” Milam lon Presbyterian Church in A ski bag is great for pack- the operating partner’s pri- said. Proud of their handiwork at the newly-erected second water building on the Camp Hopewell Campus are (from left) Randall Swan, Roger Law and Buddy Nix, part of the team that spent a long weekend in construction. Second building up at Hopewell

No, it won’t be ready for the Octo- Workers who turned out for the walks. ber session of Clean Water U, but the weekend project were Randall Swan Jack Wendleton completely engi- long-awaited water services building on and Roger Law from Kings City, Mo. (a neered the Auto-CAD drawings for the the Bryson-Lawler Campus at Camp 12-hour drive away!), Buddy Nix from building design, drew up the parts list Hopewell is finally more than a concrete Idlewild Presbyterian in Memphis, Jack “The Camp Hopewell staff also pro- slab and a set of plans. Wendleton from Hermann, Mo., Darren vided for us in their usual excellent way,” Ten volunteers spent three days in Ashmore from Camp Hopewell, Guff Ab- Howie said, “even — for the first time late September to produce what you see bott and Ann O’Dell of First Presbyterian ever — hot breakfast delivery on Satur- in the photo. It’s located just a few feet in Oxford, Miss., Kevin Robinson of St. day and Sunday mornings!” away from the existing water training John’s Catholic Church in Oxford, and The building will provide an additional building, on the downhill side. Howie. training bay, which tentatively will be re- The initial phase of construction is Those workers weren’t the first to put served for reverse osmosis training, as finished, LWW director Wil Howie said, in hours on the building, not by far. well as space for work and storage. except for one window that had to be George Hoge, who runs Suntimes The building is LWW’s second on the ordered. Phase two will finish the interior West Pools in Anchorage, Ky., made campus. The water training building was and do the wiring and plumbing work. three trips to the camp to excavate the erected when CWU was established; Target date for using the building is the site, form and pour the floor slab and long-range plans call for the possibility March 2008 session of CWU. form and pour the stem walls and side- of other structures as the need arises.