June Newsletter

Hey everyone,

It has been a very exciting last few months and I am excited to share about the things that have occurred. Recently, the LWA summer mission from Missouri S&T arrived in Honduras and we are very excited for the work that is ahead of us. We pray that God guides and directs us throughout this summer and gives us the strength to give our all to everything we do as if working for Christ.

Recently, God has been opening up many doors for us to make significant progress in our projects and towards setting them up to be sustainable for the future.

Living Water Aquaculture’s Goal

Living Water Aquaculture seeks to fight human trafficking and rescue more orphans through helping the City of Refuge have more sustainable income. We do this through taking an engineering approach to agriculture to increase sustainability and by providing engineering consulting in other areas that the orphanage needs. We desire to take the additional income generated and the money saved and use it to rescue and provide for many more orphans.

Exciting Partnership

A huge part of getting our projects in place to be sustainable for the future has been a partnership with Honduras’ best engineering university, Unitec. This university is bilingual and it’s where the nation's best students go to study. Over the last few months, we have created a strong partnership with them and will be having 5 of their graduating engineers join our team over the summer. Each student stands with our mission for Christ and is among the best graduating seniors in their class.

Each graduate will be doing a 3-month internship with the Living Water Aquaculture team to see if they would be a good fit to sustain the projects long term, and for the Christ centered mission that we have here.

The graduates are highly qualified and the team includes the Valedictorian of the Mechatronics Engineering program for 2023, a National Chess Champion, and several other students who are at the top of their class. We are very excited to be working with them and believe they are going to be a great help with the work and towards the projects becoming completely sustainable.

How You Can Help

We are currently looking to raise $7000 to cover the costs of the internships for the Unitec engineers.

This will include the money needed for their salaries, living costs, and relocation expenses. In the future, all these costs will be able to be covered sustainably by the projects these engineers are helping to set up.

If you would like to give, you can do so through the link below. Please choose “Honduras” for the location and “Living Water Aquaculture” for the fund. Any amount you would like to contribute will be greatly appreciated, and will be a huge help in setting up these projects to sustainably fight human trafficking and rescue orphans for many years to come.

Giving Link: Living Water Aquaculture

Continuing to Press On

We have four primary projects that we are currently working on and these include:

Setting up an efficient and vertically integrated tilapia farm
Helping COR to produce all needed animal and fish feed on the property
Partnering with Sonlight Power to bring solar to the campus
Increasing the efficiency of the orphanage's onsite mechanic shop

Some recent progress includes:

Completing the designs and starting the construction of the feed production warehouse (See link below for pictures of the warehouse and the construction plans)
Purchasing and transporting some of the final pieces needed to complete the tilapia filter
Continued conversation with Sonlight Power for solar field design
Creating a partnership with the nation’s best engineering college and hiring several bilingual graduates to complete their internships with our team
Significant progress into many of the tasks for the mechanic shop efficiency project (Some of the tasks for this project can be seen through the link below)

Link: LWA Newsletter Attachments

Summer Mission Trip Plans

On this trip we plan to work on the projects mentioned above, along with several sub projects. Some of the primary goals for the trip include:

Completing the tilapia filter and all other parts of the tank system
Research into how the filter can be replicable and used as a mission platform for orphanages and missions around the world
Completing the feed production warehouse in early July and beginning to produce animal and fish feed on the property
Continuing to refine efficiency of feed recipes (See attached)
Completing the initial designs for a solar panel field at the City of Refuge
Getting all the COR vehicles up and running and incorporating an efficient system moving forward
Beginning the research and design for a tilapia hatchery, turning waste into fertilizer, and cost efficiently adding additional dissolved oxygen to the tilapia ponds

Some additional things we plan to do include spending time serving the local church here on the property, having several team members join the worship team where they will lead worship for the kids on Wednesdays and Fridays, going on various outreaches to the surrounding mountains, spending time in prayer each morning prior to work, and having a team small group and taking turns leading it.

Prayer Requests

Please pray:

That we would keep our eyes set on heaven and towards the work that God has called us to do
That God would bring incredible fruit out of the work that we are doing because unless the Lord builds the house, in vain the builders strive
That we would be a light on the property to all the staff and all the orphans during our time here

Thank you to all who have supported this work. It is greatly appreciated and none of this could have happened without you.

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters." - Colossians 3:23

Thank you,

JD Crawford