Final Posting!

Your Westminster Living Waters for the World team  is safely home after a very successful and fulfilling trip. We came home in shifts as needed,  with Carson and Bruce home on Monday, Beth home on Wednesday and Suzanne, Terry and Dennis home today. When planning our time in Peru, it is difficult to know how much time will really be needed to do our work, but we are proof that our “Divine pilot” covers that, too.

We were able to successfully install 2 new installations(each system providing water for communities of 300-400) , educate over 150 children and adults in the use of their new water and the importance of cleanliness, and provide our annual maintenance for 2 other systems. Our commitment to each operating partner in Peru is to maintain a three year promise to check on and help trouble shoot their systems in order to provide them sustainable systems. As you can imagine, the environment and their understanding of maintaining their new systems and support equipment sometimes can be challenging.

It is with our  heartfelt  appreciation and thankfulness  to WPC for supporting such an incredible mission to bring clean water to more of God’s children.

Blessed Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad and Bendiciones!

Peniel Church

Picture of team after dedication of I.E.M Peniel Church water system, Iquitos, Peru 12-4-2011. Pastor Roger Teagua on left, Marcos, kneeling .

Sunday, December 4

Children learning about the creation story and the goodness  of creation and how God intends all of creation-including water- to be good.

Friday morning update!

It is Thursday evening, Dec. 1. We have completed our first installation in Kawai at the Boys Home over the past  5 days.  The men worked long days into  most nights, along with staff that will be operating and maintaining the equipment, to build a good system.  We have all learned more about being flexible, innovative, resilient and reliant on God's will as problems came up and then somehow were solved. The boys and staff were attentive and appreciative while learning about germs, washing hands and the use of their clean water. Suzanne, Terry, and Dennis will go back to Kawai on their last day in Peru to do some additional work on the pump to be sure all goes well after we are gone.

Yesterday Carson, Bruce and Rusty left to get a head start in Iquitos and today Suzanne,Terry,Beth and Dennis  followed. Iquitos is in northern Peru at the headwaters of the Amazon River and is  the largest land locked city in the world (accessible only by boat and air). It is a much different city and people than Lima. This installation is at I.M.F. Peniel Church which sits in the middle of a poor community of family homes. We have worked over 2 years to establish a relationship  with this church and community, building trust and understanding of our covenant with them. They have worked faithfully to get their site ready for us and are looking forward to having clean water. 

We are all thankful to be healthy and to have hot water for showers and comfortable beds to sleep in tonight. 
We send our blessings to all of you from Peru!