Event and Volunteer News
Posted Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 by Susanna Donald
Most seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds spend their final semester coasting through high school until graduation. Cort Gatliff and Christian Kauffman, two high school seniors from Memphis, Tennessee, are spending a month coasting across America on their bikes instead.
This isn’t your typical senior trip, though. Gatliff and Kauffman are taking on this... [Read more]
Posted Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 by LWI Editor
TEXAS—The first grade students at Northside Baptist School in Victoria, Texas were deeply saddened by the tragic news out of Haiti. Each day, the nine students prayed for the children in Haiti.
Then, the class came up with another way they could help. As the day of their Valentine’s Day party at school approached, the students decided to forgo... [Read more]
Posted Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 by LWI Editor
Charl Draxler traveled to Colon, Honduras with a Living Water mission team in January 2010. Here, in her own words, are some reflections from the trip.
When I saw the Living Water video for the first time, God touched my heart and I knew that I wanted to be part of a well drilling team. It seemed that wherever I looked I saw an ad or heard a report... [Read more]
Posted Thursday, February 4th, 2010 by LWI Editor
Getting married? What if your engagement ring could be more than a symbol of your love? What if it could also provide a life-saving symbol of God’s love for 500 Haitians in desperate need of clean drinking water? Can you think of a better way to begin your marriage?
With This Ring (WTR), a ministry that encourages radical giving, has brought clean... [Read more]
Posted Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 by Susanna Donald
UPDATE: On the morning of January 10, 2010, St. Louis resident and Team Living Water member Chris Juhasz reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain. (If you missed the original story leading up to the climb, you can read it here.) After months of preparation, six days of hard climbing, and spiking a high fever that threatened... [Read more]
Posted Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 by Susanna Donald
Team Living Water’s first major event—the annual Chevron Houston Marathon—was a huge success, with more than 70 runners teaming up to raise money and awareness for the world water crisis.
Team Living Water runners, clad in their bright yellow jerseys, gathered at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center on Sunday, January 17th to participate... [Read more]
Posted Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by Susanna Donald
Walking up a hill—really, walking anywhere other than our refrigerators or kitchen sinks—to fetch a pail of water may seem like the stuff of nursery rhymes, but in rural Africa, countless hours are spent each day fetching water from distant (and often polluted) sources. Typically, the task of water-gathering falls to the women and children.
When... [Read more]
Posted Monday, November 2nd, 2009 by LWI Editor
In July, a team of twelve people traveled to Guatemala to drill a well and share the love of Christ in Champerico, a town on the country’s western coast. Jenny Thompson was a member of that team. Here, in her own words, she shares some of her experiences from the trip. [Read more]
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Posted Monday, October 12th, 2009 by LWI Editor
On Friday, September 25th, Living Water International hosted its Annual Houston Gala. More than 700 people attended the event, each one a part of The Story of the Thirsty.
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Posted Monday, September 28th, 2009 by Susanna Donald
Did you know that the average Ugandan has only a 3rd grade education? Considering how much time they spend gathering water from distant sources or how many fall seriously ill with cholera, typhoid, or dysentery from drinking dirty water, a 3rd grade education could be regarded as a miracle.
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