Ecuador Water Project
Announcement:
Squire Parsons will be coming to Heber Springs Community Center, 201 Bobbie Jean Lane, on Friday night, November 5, 2010 at 7:00 PM to do a "benefit" concert for the Water Project. If you have any questions, please "Contact Us" or contact Brother Bill Williams at 1-800-764-0437 or 1-501-362-4493.
About two years ago it was brought to my attention-Bill Williams-President of International Church Planters, that two villages, Shushilcon and Pachacama Chico, in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, have water only 3 or 4 months out of the year; and only then what they have caught during the rainy season. When that is gone, they do not have water. In order to get water, they have to travel down the mountains about 30-40 minutes to Alausi and buy what water they can, that is, if they have the money. These are very poor people.
The people of the villages discovered there was a piece of land, with 3 ever flowing springs, about 600 meters above them in elevation. This would supply them with all the water they would need for their homes and overhead irrigation for their crops. With the help of Norway Lutheran Mission, they purchased that property. The people sacrificed and spent $35,000 to study the project to determine how they could get the water to their villages and then had an engineer draw plans for the project. They discovered the water could be gravity fed through pipe to the villages. They have sought help from the government of Ecuador and other groups, but no help has come. They have been waiting a long time!
The project will be to build a concrete holding tank that will be fed from the springs and piped from the tank to the villages through large PVC pipe, to keep the water off the ground and keep it clean. Oh, the water has been tested and the people have been told it is the purest water that has been found in Ecuador. What a blessing!
God has burdened my heart about this project and I have made a commitment to do all I can do to raise $600,000 in 2010, to help get water to these people. That seems like a big task, and it is, if it were just up to me, but for God, nothing is big. My goal is to find 600 individuals and/or churches who will give $1,000 each and we'll have the money. You may say, "I can't give $1,000 but I want to help". No gift is too big and no gift is too small. My dear friend, Squire Parsons, believes in this project and will be coming Friday, November 5, to Tumbling Shoals Baptist Church to do a "benefit " concert for the cause.
To give to the project, make your check payable to International Church Planters or ICP and mail to: ICP, PO Box 112, Tumbling Shoals, AR 72581. Designate to the "Ecuador Water Project".
The people are anxious to get started, so much so, that 300 men from these villages are ready to begin work immediately. If you have questions just call Bill Williams at 1-800-764-0437 or 1-501-362-4493.
