Posts by James

This is an updated story since the September 2024 Newsletter was written. We received word in July that the economic situation in Kaswanga (as in most of Kenya) has dramatically changed due to floods that ruined the season’s harvest, which led to unsustainable costs for food. This was true even for modest households but exceptionally…

Greetings from the Living Waters Intl Feeding Program in Kenya, where orphan girls and boys are finding help and hope. This year has brought its challenges, first with drought, then torrential rain, and then the diseases that follow the rain: malaria, cholera, and typhoid. Add significant inflation, and most families in the village are struggling…

Dear Friends of Living Waters Intl,  Recently a little first-grade girl was brought to the feeding center by her teacher who asked if we could accept her into the feeding program. She was malnourished and wearing torn, dirty clothes. She looked tired and listless. Ezekiel, program manager of the feeding center, reports, ” I immediately sympathized with…

To all who supported Living Waters’ in the recent earthquake project, your response was a direct outpouring of Gods love working through individuals and organizations. On behalf of the recipients of compassionate services provided in Turkey, Kurdistan-Iraq and beyond, and as the president of Living Waters Intl, I want to say thank you for your…

What a transformative experience this has been for both our team and the host team that we worked with. In general this society of Muslims have been indoctrinated to despise Christians. For the very few days of our time in Kahramanmaras, in every case there was a very positive bonding of humans that crossed religious…

We are still in Turkey. We are pleased to be making connections and forming real friendships with some of the people we are working with.  Our only goal has been to help them with their physical needs and not to take advantage of their vulnerability by proselytizing with words or literature.  We are focusing on what we…

Three Living Waters team members have arrived in Turkey with 15 water purification systems. Three additional volunteers will join them in the coming days. Tomorrow they will fly on to Kahramanmaras, near the epicenter of the February 6 earthquake. “People are desperate for access to clean water, and we are thankful to be able to…

Our hearts are touched as we hear of the agony and suffering in Turkey and Syria after Monday’s earthquake. Pure water is desperately needed, and Living Waters Intl is planning to install 15 water purification systems in the remote areas of the quake zone and will be leaving on or around February 23, 2023.  Each…

Dear Friends of Living Waters Intl, The Living Waters Intl Feeding Center is a center of influence on Rusinga Island in Kenya, uplifting orphans, needy and vulnerable children by providing them with meals every day. The impact of this wonderful program is felt in almost every home in the villages of Kaswanga and Wanyama. The…

Congratulations! For the 2nd year, all of our 2022 8th grade graduates were able to go on to high school! Daily meals help the children do well in their classes and qualify for high school. All of them received scholarships or earned the money for their school fees. Well done, class! It’s a process to…