Word spread quickly as two missionary couples traveled from village to village earlier this year in the remote area surrounding Luputa, DR Congo. They had come to finalize the development of a Church-funded humanitarian project that would provide clean water to an estimated 160,000 people.

The villagers let out a loud African cheer, clapping and celebrating. Their prayers had been answered, they told the missionaries.

The effort is the largest clean water project the Church has undertaken to date, delivering water via pipeline from hilltop springs an estimated 20 miles to Luputa. The gravity-fed system will include 140 distribution points and will require no pump or electricity as there is no electricity in the area, explained Church service missionaries Elder David Frandsen and Sister Lena Frandsen.

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