It was a (Peruvian) mountaintop experience to join the gathered community–farm families, school children and staff from partner organizations–to dedicate and celebrate a 33,000 gallon reservoir that would irrigate quinoa crops and grow a future with hope for 60 families. “It never occurred to me to wonder how the reservoir would be filled with water,” I wrote in “Spring of Living Water” (Lutheran Woman Today, June 2007), “but some questions are answered before they’re asked.” Find the article at http://bit.ly/PeruLWT and my Peru photos at http://photos.edison-swift.com/Global/Peru/. Find a related article, “‘Go and do likewise’ with ELCA World Hunger” (Seeds for the Parish, May-June 2007), at http://bit.ly/GoandDo.
–Sue Edison-Swift