Living Waters for the World Podcast

In this episode, we sat down with Peet Strydom from Liquid Legacy and heard about his journey and Liquid Legacy's work in Peru and the Bahamas. Read more about Liquid Legacy here. Be sure to check out their fundraiser coming up October 22, 2023!Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. Reach out to us via our website to learn more.Become an LWW Cupbearer (a monthly supporter who helps a family have sustainable access to purified drinking water)! Whether you donate $5 or $50 a month or more, you're making a difference! Here's a link to learn more and sign up.Clean Water U (CWU) is our five-day school where we train teams to work with partners. You'll find more info about Clean Water U here.Harry Castillo of Cuba gifted LWW with the song "Agua de Vida" that we use for our podcast music. Gracias Harry!Here's where you can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.Thanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends. 

In this episode, we visit with Pat and Dave Patterson of the Conshohocken United Methodist Church. They have water partnerships in Cuba and Uganda. You can learn more about their partnerships here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJAGG0L5ZXY Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. Reach out to us via our website to learn more.If you aren't an LWW Cupbearer (a monthly supporter who helps a family have sustainable access to purified drinking water) yet, this is your invitation. Whether you donate $5 or $50, you're making a difference! Here's a link to learn more and sign up.Clean Water U (CWU) is our five-day school where we train teams to work with partners. You'll find more info about Clean Water U here.Harry Castillo of Cuba gifted LWW with the song "Agua de Vida" that we use for our podcast music. Gracias Harry! Here's where you can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.Thanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends: https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/13274698-conshohocken-united-methodist-church-s-uganda-water-partnership.mp3?download=true

In this episode, LWW's Executive Director Steve Young joins Kendall and Doug to share a "state of the organization" update and what he is looking forward to in 2023.Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. We all have a role to play when it comes to providing pure water for God's children. What part will you play? Reach out to us via our website and let's talk about water for all God's children. There's room at God's table for all of us!Thank you for listening to our podcast and for all of your support for Living Waters for the World. If you aren't an LWW Cupbearer (a monthly supporter who helps a family have sustainable access to purified drinking water) yet, this is your invitation! Whether you donate $5 or $50, you're making a difference! Here's a link to learn more and sign up.Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. Check out our website to learn how you can be a water partner. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.Clean Water U (CWU) is our five-day school where we train teams to work with partners. You'll find more info about Clean Water U here.Harry Castillo of Cuba gifted LWW with the song "Agua de Vida" that we use for our podcast music. Gracias Harry! Thanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends: https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/12482967-2023-looking-ahead-with-executive-director-steve-young.mp3?download=true

Kendall Cox, LWW's Director of Education, is usually a co-host of the LWW podcast along with Doug Depies but for this episode, Doug asked Kendall to be the guest and he got to ask all the questions! It was a joy to get to sit down and record this conversation together, share some stories as well as some lessons learned from mentors along the way, and dream about where 2023 will take us. Thank you for listening to our podcast and for all of your support for Living Waters for the World. If you aren't an LWW Cupbearer (a monthly supporter who helps a family have sustainable access to purified drinking water) yet, this is your invitation! Whether you donate $5 or $50, you're making a difference! Here's a link to learn more and sign up.Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. Check out our website to learn how you can be a water partner. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.Clean Water U (CWU) is our five-day school where we train teams to work with partners. You'll find more info about Clean Water U here.Harry Castillo of Cuba gifted LWW with the song "Agua de Vida" that we use for our podcast music. Gracias Harry! Please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends: https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/12223012-kendall-cox-lww-director-of-education.mp3?download=true

We can't wait to share this conversation with you all! Prepare to be uplifted (and challenged!) by Carie Turner who just retired as Living Waters for the World's Financial Administrator.We invite all our listeners to become a Living Waters for the World Cupbearer--a monthly supporter who helps a family have sustainable access to purified drinking water. Whether you donate $5 or $50, you're making a difference! Here's a link to learn more and sign up--Carie thanks you and so do we!Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. Check out our website to learn how you can be a water partner. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.Clean Water U (CWU) is our five-day school where we train teams to work with partners. You'll find more info about Clean Water U here.Harry Castillo of Cuba gifted LWW with the song "Agua de Vida" that we use for our podcast music. Gracias Harry! Moraima Gonzalez, Cuba Network Coordinator, created this karaoke video of the entire song.Thanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends: https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/11805245

What a joy it was to sit down with long-time LWW leader and volunteer, Joanie Lukins for this month's podcast! Joanie's time with LWW stretches back over 20 years and we loved hearing some of her stories and what she's learned from her team's partners over the years. Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. Check out our website to learn how you can be a water partner. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.Clean Water U (CWU) is our five-day school where we train teams to work with partners. Our next session will be held at Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center in Johnsonburg, New Jersey. The dates are October 10-14. You'll find more info about Clean Water U here.Harry Castillo of Cuba gifted LWW with the song "Agua de Vida" that we use for our podcast music. Gracias Harry! Moraima Gonzalez, Cuba Network Coordinator, created this karaoke video of the entire song. Thanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends:https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/10968560

For our latest podcast, Pablo Pérez, LWW's Guatemala Network in-country coordinator, joined us to visit about his work with water partners. Here is a link to the LWW Guatemala YouTube channel where you can find videos of Pablo and the rest of our staff doing what they do best, connecting and training. A note about the audio in this episode: We apologize that the audio isn't always clear in some places. Recording a podcast with people who are in three different locations (in this case, Guatemala, Cancún, and Mississippi) has its challenges. Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. Check out our website to learn how you can be a water partner.We have one more Clean Water U (CWU) training in 2022. This fall, we will hold CWU for the very first time at Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center in Johnsonburg, New Jersey. The dates are October 10-14. You'll find more info about Clean Water U here.We want to thank our friend Harry Castillo of Cuba who gifted LWW with the song "Agua de Vida" that we use for our podcast music. Here is a link to a karaoke video of the song produced by Moraima Gonzalez, Cuba Network Coordinator. We hope you'll dance and practice some Spanish!Thanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends: https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/10760133

We are excited to share this conversation we had this month with one of our trained water teams with members from rotary clubs in New York. They just returned from completing an install of a water purification system with their partners in Tabi, Quintana Roo, Mexico.  Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. Check out our website to learn how you can be a water partner.Clean Water U training is coming to Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center in Johnsonburg, New Jersey October 10-14, 2022. You'll find Clean Water U info here. The music for this episode is the song "Agua de Vida" written by Harry Castillo for Living Waters for the World. Here is a link to a karaoke video of the song that Moraima Gonzalez, Cuba Network Coordinator, produced. Enjoy!Thanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends:https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/10680560

This month's podcast is a conversation with Living Waters for the World's Social Media Coordinator, Doug Depies. Social Media is just one of the hats Doug wears at LWW--he is also a quadrant coordinator in the Yucatan network, he's an instructor for LWW at our training school, Clean Water U, and he's our podcast co-host as well. Doug has a gift for photography and videography (check out some of his work here and here) as well as for teaching. In this conversation, you'll learn what "helium hands" are (and that Doug has them), how he got involved with LWW and photography, and how he learned Spanish. The music for this episode is the song "Agua de Vida" written by Harry Castillo for Living Waters for the World. Here is a link to a karaoke video of the song that Moraima Gonzalez, Cuba Network Coordinator, produced. Enjoy!Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. More partners mean more communities have safe water to drink! Whether our role is to pray, give, or go, we all have a calling. Check out our website to learn how you can be a part of this mission ministry that God has called us to work in together.We have one more in-person Clean Water U training in 2022:October 10-14 Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center in Johnsonburg, New JerseyYou'll find Clean Water U info here.Thanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends:https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/episodes/10516961

In this episode, LWW's Executive Director Steve Young joins Kendall and Doug to share a "state of the organization" report and what he is excited about in 2022. Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. More partners mean more communities have access to pure water.  We all have a role to play when it comes to providing pure water for God's children. What part will you play? Reach out to us via our website and let's talk about water for all God's children. There's room at God's table for all of us!Check out our 2022 trainings (Clean Water U) for water teams:April 26-30 Camp Hopewell in Oxford, Mississippi (note: this session is almost at capacity and the deadline to register is April 8)August 2-6 virtual training onlineOctober 10-14 Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center in Johnsonburg, New JerseyIn this episode, we talk about water partnerships in terms of potlucks and round tables! While over the years, we've heard many different folks talk about partnerships in this way, we'd like to reference two in particular: --Here's a link to a video from Michael Rhodes at the Chalmers Center that we reference in the podcast explaining  a potluck approach to mission. We encourage you to check out all of the excellent resources at the Chalmers Center.  --The January 31, 2022 issue of The Presbyterian Outlook "Rethinking Mission" is another resource we encourage you to read. Our Education Team read several articles from that edition in preparation for a recent retreat. In the podcast, we mention a point Ellen Sherby (coordinator of Equipping Mission Involvement for the Presbyterian Church (USA)) makes in her article Making mission matter: Four steps to strengthen your mission committee found in that issue: "When only one community involved in the work participates and leads, mission falls flat and becomes like a fast-food drive-through."Thanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends: https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/10288216

In this episode, Rubenia Sánchez joins Kendall and Doug to share about her work with Living Waters for the World as an In-Country Coordinator for our Guatemala Network.Click here to view the LWW Guatemala Network YouTube channel where you can see videos created by Rubenia and the rest of our Guatemala team.Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. More partners mean more communities have safe water to drink! Whether our role is to pray, give, or go, we all have a calling. Check out our website to learn how you can be a part of this mission ministry that God has called us to work in together. We have three Clean Water U trainings in 2022: April 26-30 Camp Hopewell in Oxford, MississippiAugust 2-6 virtual training onlineOctober 10-14 Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center in Johnsonburg, New JerseyThanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends: https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/10137243

January 20, 2022Claudia Dolinga on Guatemala and Living Waters for the World's International Networks ConferenceLWW's Podcast Season 3 episode 1In this episode, Claudia Dolinga joins Kendall and Doug to share about her work with Living Waters for the World, from being a volunteer interpreter in Guatemala, to becoming an In-Country Coordinator for Guatemala, and now, a project coordinator for Living Waters for the World! We are grateful that Claudia has "helium hands" and that her gifts include planning and organizing (as well as video creation and editing!) Living Waters for the World trains partners to work together so that communities have a sustainable source of purified drinking water. More partners mean more communities have safe water to drink! We are always looking for volunteers to be a part of this work. Check out our website to learn how you can form a team and partner on water with a community!We are grateful to have Camp Hopewell in Oxford, Mississippi, as partners for our water team training, Clean  Water U. We have a training there April 26-30, 2022. We will also have a virtual training in late summer (date TBA.) We are excited to have a new training partner,  Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center in New Jersey! Our inaugural training there will be October 10-14, 2022. Thanks for listening--please share this podcast with your family, church, and friends: https://www.buzzsprout.com/806414/9916296  

In this episode, we're talking with Carson Salyer, retired pastor, Clean Water U training school instructor, and LWW volunteer. Carson discusses how he got involved with LWW and why he's stayed involved all these years. We talk about his experiences working with partners in Peru and Appalachia and Carson shares stories and wisdom--we didn't want the episode to end! To learn more about LWW's model and how you can be a part of communities having clean water to drink, visit us on the web. Here's our Christmas video--you're going to want to play this on repeat for all your friends and family! This link will take you to a blog post about Westminster Presbyterian Church water team's work in Appalachia. And here is a link to a blog post about their work in Peru.Click here for some photos from Westminster's partnerships. We are grateful for the Westminster water team and their 61 water partners in Peru and Appalachia!

This month we got to visit with Kelly Goad, a member of the water team at the Presbyterian Church of Bowling Green, Kentucky and an administrator at our training school, Clean Water U. In this conversation, Kelly shares how he came to be involved with LWW and why he's stayed involved all these years. He also talks about his church's water partnership in Belize. Here's a video from that partnership:https://youtu.be/YRiM3nBijqAIf you'd like to be part of this mission of partnering on clean water with communities, reach out to us via our website, http://www.livingwatersfortheworld.orgThanks for listening--we appreciate your support! You can further support this water mission by donating:http://https://www.livingwatersfortheworld.org/ways-to-giveWe are inviting all of our listeners to become LWW Cupbearers, monthly donors who help keep clean water flowing for families around the world: http://livingwatersfortheworld.org/cupbearer-gift

Hope Anderson and Nancy Russell are water team leaders (their church is Pennington Presbyterian in New Jersey), instructors at LWW's training school Clean Water U, and Co-Moderators for LWW's Yucatán Network.Before we get to this episode's show notes, we have a favor to ask. From now until the end of 2021, we have set a goal of 300 new LWW Cupbearers. What's a Cupbearer? Monthly donors who give so that a family can have access to a sustainable source of clean water. 300 new Cupbearers giving $5 a month and we reach our goal for 2021! Whether you have $5 or $50 or somewhere in between to give each month, it all adds up to kids having safe drinking water. So they can go to school. Learn. Play. Be kids. Becoming a Cupbearer is easy. Here's how: https://www.livingwatersfortheworld.org/cupbearer-giftThank you for your support and thanks for listening!Now for the show notes!A few acronyms:NCT: Network Coordinating TeamAC: Yucatán Civil Association of Water Partners101: LWW's Partnership Management Workshop102: LWW's Health Education Workshop103: LWW's Water System WorkshopROS: Reverse Osmosis and SofteningHere is a  video  of the Cantamayec and Pennington Presbyterian Church water partnership: https://youtu.be/EHRU2HmeHKMHere's the story we referenced about a first time volunteer on the Pennington water team:https://www.livingwatersfortheworld.org/single-post/2019/01/29/first-time-volunteer-finds-transformation-in-mexicoThis link shows you where LWW has organized networks that come alongside our partners and assist with assessment, development, implementation, and sustainability of water partnerships. If you scroll to the bottom, you'll see info for the Yucatán network:https://www.livingwatersfortheworld.org/network-contactsHere is a video of the water plant at Mani in the Yucatán network to show as an example. They named their water plant Há - the water of our land in Mayan. https://fb.watch/8hyluYE6kQ/Follow us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/LWWmissionhttps://www.instagram.com/livingwatersfortheworld/Subscribe to our YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/user/LWWmission/videos

In this conversation with Jeff Wagner, our Director of Operations, we hear how Jeff got involved with Living Waters for the World, what he's learned over the years, and what is on the near horizon for field operations. To learn more about LWW, visit our website: www.livingwatersfortheworld.org and click "About" to see how and where we partner on purified water for communities around the world. Here is the El Salvador video mentioned in the podcast--beautiful! https://livingwatersfortheworld.app.box.com/s/8ka19c2r187ujlg77m0i6xxo1gk5chn1

Listen in on our conversation with Denis Evangelista, LWW's In-Country Coordinator for the El Salvador Network. Denis shares with us how he got started working with LWW, the connections he has made with water teams partnering in El Salvador, and what he's learned over the last year.

In this month's episode of the LWW Podcast, we chat with a team from FPC Ambler PA.  In 2020, during the middle of a pandemic, they partnered with a church in El Salvador and successfully installed a water purification system together with the community. A wonderful testament to our amazing network staff, initiating partners, and operating partners to provide clean water in any way imaginable.

 In our February 2021 podcast, we have conversations with Omar Marroquin, In-Country Director and Rubenia Sánchez, one of the In-Country Coordinators for Living Waters for the World's Guatemala Network. As we look back at the lessons from 2020 and dream together about what 2021 and beyond might hold for us as water partners, we are ever grateful for the family God has blessed us with as we seek to answer God's call to bring clean water to all God's children.Links:LWW Guatemala's YouTube page:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm3MRR5vRvQQEY1YcVRbcSALWW on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/LWWmissionLearn more, get involved with LWW:www.livingwatersfortheworld.orgThank you to Omar and Rubenia for sitting down with us on Zoom, to the LWW Guatemala Network staff, and to all of our Network staff around the globe for their work to help keep clean water flowing for God's people!