>>> March 2009

Kansas Volunteers Send Supplies

As a water well drilling ministry, ICDI uses a lot of materials that have to be shipped in from outside of Africa. In February, several volunteers gathered together in the rural oil fields of Kansas to process and prep for shipping some steel pipe that ICDI recently aquired. Friends of ICDI that work in the US domestic oil industry located a large quantity of steel pipe which can be used as well casing for ICDI water wells. Their volunteer labor to cut, prep, and load a shipping container saved ICDI significant time and expense. These supplies will help provide water for hundreds of people in remote areas of central Africa.

pictured above:
1. cutting the pipe to proper lengths to fit in the shipping conatiner
2. loading the shipping container

Hope Church Hosts ICDI Gala

Check out what Hope Community Church is doing! March 24th at 7pm at Hope Community Church in Raliegh NC. Tickets for the International Dinner are $15/person, and all proceeds will go to ICDI. Click here to view the invitation.

Hey, if you're in the area come on by! Founders, Jim & Faye Hocking will be there along with other ICDI senior staff!

After two weeks and several hundred kilometers of rugged red dirt roads, the seven member team from the Hope Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Raleigh, North Carolina, has recently returned home from the Central African Republic.

The team included senior pastor Mike Lee, worship director Karl Moraski and newly appointed missions pastor Jean Eloi as well as four other men from the church. In this picture the team prepares for the night flight departure from the Central African Republic. The team spent days doing various work projects and visiting projects sponsored by the Raleigh church throughout Bangui, Berberati and the Bayanga forest.

Hope church has adopted a region in southeastern CAR and is partnering with ICDI to empower community development activity, particularly in water and sanitation. Details of the trip may be read on the team blog at www.hopeforthecarnow.blogspot.com.

The Hope Community Church Team, getting ready to return to NC after their two week trip to the C.A.R.

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The Power of Partnership

ICDI founder and CEO Jim Hocking is currently hosting a team of leaders from key world partners whose organizations fight for clean water around the world. Senior staff from Living Water International, Charity:Water and newly formed NeverThirst are touring with Jim today in the Bayanga region. These organizations are all key partners with ICDI in the quest to eradicate thirst and disease due to lack of clean and safe water In CAR. Pray for these men & women as they travel and as they put their heads together to wisely strategize for effective use of resources in 2009.