Living Water has sent hundreds of teams each year to give the gift of safe water and share living water—the gospel of Jesus Christ—with countries impacted by the global water crisis. We invite you to be a part of this experience in creating generational change in Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa!
On a Living Water Trip, you’ll witness the transformational power of water firsthand as you drill or repair a water well, teach sanitation and hygiene lessons, and share God’s love with the community. You’ll form friendships as you serve alongside our in-country staff and community members to provide water, for life, in Jesus’ name!
I’M GOING AS –
AN INDIVIDUAL
Want to go on a trip but don’t have a group to go with? Great!
We often have open spots on existing teams that you can join! Start by filling out a booking request form for our 2018 trips or 2019 trips, and our Living Water Trips Administrator will get you set up with a trip that works best for your schedule.
A TEAM
Have a full team of 10 to 12 people or a half team of 5 to 6? Let’s book your trip!
Start by filling out a booking request form for our 2022 trips or 2023 trips, and our Living Water Trips Administrator will get you set up with a trip that works for you and your team. If you sign up as a half team, please note that we will likely pair you with another half team or individuals. If you would like to sponsor the well, please make a note on your 2018 booking form or 2019 booking form.
HONDURAS
Living Water works along the North Coast in the Tela/El Progresso region. Team members will drill with a LS400 rig with the help of our local drillers and have the opportunity to share important sanitation, hygiene, and Bible lessons. You’ll see both mountains and beaches and also receive lots of hugs: the people in Honduras are very kind and affectionate!
Dear all, while we’re going through our day I would like to share with you a great need and disaster that is happening right now at this moment. On the island where we have our clean drinking water wells, the tragedy after the tragedy is the economic disaster that is hit the island due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Children and families ARE LEFT WITH ALMOST nowhere to find help. So the area where we have the wells the economy shut down because of COVID, people had been suffering and many are devastated. For many of you that have been supporting the efforts for years we thank you and we ask you for more help, for those of you that are just finding out about our efforts we ask you to join us.
Every month it takes many thousands of dollars just to pay the power bill for our massive clean drinking water wells and historically the families have made donations to help us meet that cost. In view of covid, the loss of jobs and now this disaster they need our help. So not only do we need to help these wonderful folks with the water but we’re going to need to help many of them repair their homes. They have nowhere else to go.
If you have $100, $200 $1,000, $3,000, or more please visit http://www.hnow.org To make a donation or feel free to write a check to either Living Water 4 Roatan or HopeNow and mail your donation to PO box 550582Jacksonville, FL 32255.The folks in Central America are praying right now and I can tell you that as you’re reading this you are the answer to the prayers. Please help.
After a desperate break in service of clean drinking water from our water wells to the families we serve in La Colonia due to the water pump breaking down, access has now been restored!
A new water pump has been installed by our team on the ground. Early last week our team got together to take serious action and resolve this issue. Thank you to everyone of you here in the States who support the efforts of Living Water | HopeNow, because of you we were able to purchase and install this new water pump.
Here is an inspiring photo showing an early stage of the construction of Living Water 4 Roatans’ main clean water well tank (Tank B).
The water system consists of three wells: Well #1 is located within the Centralized Pump House. Well #1 produces about 25 gallons per minute (gpm) Well #2 is in a shed a little further up the hill, on the opposite side of the road, and produces about 35 gpm. Well #3 is in a shed behind the church building and produces about 50 gpm.
The Centralized Pump House is a building that includes: Well Pump # 1 and related controls, including float switches to turn the well pump off when the main water tank (Tank A) is full.
A water storage Tank (Tank A). This is a masonry tank that was constructed as a part of the pump house building. It is partially underground and larger than it would appear from the outside. There is a submersible pump in the tank that pumps water to the booster pumps, and to lower elevation sectors.
Two 7.5HP Booster Pumps that supply purified water to the tank at the top of the hill (Tank B) for gravity distribution, and to various water distribution sectors within the community. These booster pumps are controlled by pressure switches and three vertical pressure tanks. There is also a float switch within the Water Tank B (at the top of the hill) that shuts off the booster pumps when the tank is full.
A MIOX on site generator system that uses salt, water and electric power to produce a Mixed Oxidant Solution (MOS). The system converts the water and salt into a chlorine solution that is introduced into the water at a very specific rate.
The system includes: A paper filters to remove contaminants to 10 microns, that feeds the water into: A household Reverse Osmosis system to clean the water that will be fed to a storage tank. A storage tank (100 gallons) for the clean water that will feed the Salt Brine tank. A salt brine tank (100 gallons) where the clean water is mixed with rock salt to produce a brine solution. A paper filter to remove contaminates to 5 microns that feeds the brine into: The MIOX generator which takes the brine solution and converts it to a Mixed Oxidant Solution (MOS) A Mixed Oxidant Solution (MOS) Storage Tank A Stenner mechanically adjustable feeder pump which calibrates how much MOS is introduced into the main water distribution system (tanks and sector pipes) for consumption. Description (continued): A 30” through the wall fan to cool down the equipment (pretty much year-round).
The two remote sheds for Well # 2 and Well #3 include: Well pumps in the ground Related controls One each: Vertical Pressure tank to control when the well pumps turn on and off.
Note: All the water pumped from Wells #2 & #3 is pumped into the main water Tank A within the centralized pump house, for purification prior to distribution (very inefficient).
At last count there were about thirteen separate sectors that distributed water throughout the community. The main pipes are 2” pvc, with a network of smaller pipes throughout the sector. There are miles of pipe throughout the sectors, laid on the ground. Upper elevation sectors are gravity fed from the large tank (Tank B) at the top of the hill. Some higher elevation sectors are fed from the booster pumps within the centralized pump house. Lower elevation sectors are fed directly from the centralized pump house.
Hope – How is your hope? Does it bounce back after being hit? Does it cause you to doubt when you lose hope in a situation? God knows that we all struggle with finding and holding onto hope. When you are facing tests of faith, even the strongest Christians can find it a challenge to find hope.
When you need encouragement and refreshment for your soul, turn to these Scriptures from the Old and New Testaments that offer hope and encouragement. Everyone needs to be reminded from time to time of the hope that God, Jesus and the Bible offer to us in our daily lives.
A Prayer for Hope: Lord, I maintain my hope in You and I hold onto the assurance that what I am praying for is already accomplished in the name of Jesus. Your Word promises “no good thing does He withhold from those that walk uprightly” (Psalm 84:11). I wait upon You for Your definition of the “good thing” You will not withhold from me.
As David prayed in Psalm 18:1: “I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”
Scripture on Hope: 1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
Right now with the downturn in the economy which has been compounded by the economy almost shutting down on the island due to COVID we are energizing our efforts to love our neighbors as ourselves. Many are in greater need than we could ever comprehend.
Right now for a portion of the island we are the utilities company for is providing clean drinking water through our system of pumps, water wells, tanks and PVC pipes to 3,500 people.
Pray. That’s the first thing our well-drilling team does when they prepare to drill. They know that dirty water and poor sanitation and hygiene result in the deaths of nearly 1,000 children every day worldwide. Recently other organizations have attempted to drill wells in the area that we serve only to end up hitting no water/dry. We have done the research and on our property can drill another well with favorable projections to hit water. The only way we can do this is through raising $18,000. Help our team drill a deep well and fit it with electronic equipment needed to pump it to the tank at the top of the mountain. One well can provide 2,800 gallons of safe, life-sustaining water every day for hundreds if people. Your gift will save lives for years to come.
The HopeNow Foundation | Living Water 4 Roatan pool donations to provide both water and living water to as many people as possible. Visit http://www.lw4r.org to see about progress and how your gift is helping to provide clean water.
Monthly giving: the simple way to make your donations do more. Give to the Living Water Fund. Monthly giving is the most effective way to help the children and families who need it most. It lowers costs and puts more of your money to work changing lives. Plus, your donations will be delivering the right solution at just the right time. And while your gifts are at work changing lives, you’ll get to see the power of your generosity through quarterly updates through our social media platforms.
In Jeremiah 2:13 and 17:13, the prophet describes God as “the spring of living water“, who has been forsaken by his chosen people Israel. … “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water” (John 4:10).
The logo for the Living Water non profit organization is the cross. As you enter the wonderful community that we serve and travel up the mountain walking over literally miles of PVC pipes rooting across the land you make your to the very top and you find a massive water tank and yes a cross. Just as the tank disperses life giving water into barrels outside of homes over 1500 precious people, many of which we call close friends, the cross is also available as flowing living water to quench the soul of every single human being on this planet.
. One of the most insightful stories about how one man helps broken people occurs in chapter four in the a letter written by a follower of Yeshua named John. It is the story of how the greatest leader and teacher to ever walk the earth shatters the norm.
He is sitting alone at a well in Samaria, Jacob’s well. It is noontime and a woman approaches the well. He asks her for a drink. To us in the twenty-first century, this could be a story about a man in his thirties who is tired from walking long miles. He meets a woman who has a bucket that can give him water. Seems simple enough, but it is not. It is a story with many twists and turns. It is a story of his approach to humankind. It is a story that resembles his internal conversation with us. A story that must be pulled apart. A story with a surprising ending. One not on Netflix, perse, but worth reading.
The woman he meets at the well is from Samaria and has had a very hard life. We know this from three clues that we are given at the beginning of the story. First, she is a Samaritan. The Samaritans were considered social outcasts by the dominant Jewish population. Second, she is a woman. In the first century, women had very few rights and society was heavily tilted toward men. In fact, women were in some corners considered the property of their husbands. Finally, this woman is drawing water at noontime, the hottest part of the day in the Middle East. Most women would draw their family’s water in the cool of the morning. It was also a community gathering time. This woman came alone, potentially because the other women of her community had rejected her. She lived a lonely and lowly life, an outcast for being a Samaritan and a woman, and then rejected also by her own people. Yet here she was, the lowest of society, unknowingly meeting with Yeshua ‘Jesus’.
Jesus begins their dialogue with an innocent request: “Give me a drink.” Stunned, because a Jew is asking a Samaritan woman to do him a favor, she asks, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” He ignores this question and proceeds to invite her into a conversation that is both revealing and designed to draw her deeper. He brings up “living water.” His purpose is not to discuss the socioeconomic status in the Judean world. He has a mission for this woman. A mission that he could not spring on her immediately. He has a simple path of getting her to be accepting. A path that will lead to marvelous things. But Jesus is patient and knows to move slowly.
Imagine that we are this woman. We are used to people shutting us down, because of gender, social status, and our past. It has been a hot climb to the well to get water for the day. Here sits a single man of the dominant culture asking for water. Would we think, what does he really want? Would we be suspicious? Would we be afraid? Would we bow our heads and humbly hand him water? Instead, this woman asks a simple question, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?”. A question of amazement. With this question, she reveals herself to be forthright and curious.
Jesus in turn tells her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who this is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink’, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” (John 4:10)
She replies, “Sir you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well, and with his sons and his flock drank from it?” (John 4:11–12) By saying this, the woman proves she is steeped in the history of the Bible and fully aware that Jacob was the great ancestor of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Jesus continues telling her about the “living water,” by saying, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water I will give them will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” (John 4:13–14)
In this brief interchange, the creator of planet earth uses the woman’s daily task of drawing water to tell her about a different way of living. A connection she will understand later. Jesus is not talking just about water, but of faith in God. A way to change her life of being an outcast to being a faith-driven woman. A way to become accepted by God and her neighbor.
The woman asks for the water Jesus is offering, but still does not know this is God talking to her through Jesus. Jesus tells her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” (John 4:16)
She replies, “I have no husband.”
He who created her knew this when he asked her this question to allow for a prophetic statement that would reveal himself to be more than a great prophet. Jesus says, “You are right in saying ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband.” (John 4:17–18) Stunned that this random man would know all this about her past, the woman now knows that this conversation is bigger than just about water. She replies to Jesus, “I know that Messiah is coming (who is called Christ). When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” (John 4: 25) Jesus replies to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.” (John 4:26) A clear statement from Jesus that he is the great “I Am” that visited Moses many centuries earlier.
The woman from the well leaves to tell her people that she might have found the Messiah, and she asks the leaders of her community to go back with her to see if this is true. Many from her community believe her because of the story she told and how Jesus knew everything about her. They head back to the well and invite Jesus to spend a few days with them. After a few days of being with Jesus, they proclaim to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard ourselves, and we know this is truly the Savior of the world.” (John 4:42)
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