Year 2004 Shaping Up to Break
All Clean Water Records

With two new purifiers installed earlier this year and three sites scheduled for health education and installation in June alone, 2004 promises to be a record-breaking year (four units were installed in 2003).

Early in June, South Alabama Presbytery’s water team will be educating and installing unit No. 18 in Hochel, Mexico. In the middle of the month in our first joint trip, The Presbyterian Church of Danville, KY, and PeWee Valley (KY) PC will install unit No. 19 in Lerma and unit No. 20 in Xkeulil. All three of these sites are in the Yucatan Peninsula.

A number of education and installation trips are being planned for later in the year.

The water team from the Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley will be going to the PC in Santa Katarina, several hours northwest of Oaxaca, Mexico. This fall our United Methodist partners from Children of the World in Fairhope, AL, will be installing two units in two partner orphanages in India, and First Presbyterian Church of Haverhill, Mass., will be traveling to Long Eslam in South Africa.

On the U.S. front, the Viking Mountain Project of the Cedar Creek PC and Holston Presbytery in the mountains of East Tennessee successfully installed three home units there last year. Eight more families have requested assistance, and the next four installations are being scheduled. There is now growing interest and consideration for a similar project in eastern Kentucky.

Giving Sunday Response Increases

This year’s Giving Sunday offering received in many churches on February 8, appears likely to nearly double last year’s.

To date, funds totaling $51,890 have been received, with remaining known commitments totaling $14,189 still outstanding. This compares to last year’s total of $38,000.

Across the synod, 112 churches committed to participate this year, also a major increase over last year’s number.

The Giving Sunday offering is the largest single means of support for Living Waters for the World.

We extend heartfelt thanks to participants. As awareness of our work continues to spread, we look forward to a greater 2005.