Past Missions
The Community’s mission to St. Lucia, since 2009, is based in Soufriere a scenically beautiful but very impoverished part of the island. The three Living Water household members (Monique, Alice and Laura Ann) evangelize through a morning programme on the local radio station, prayer meetings in both Soufriere and Fond St. Jacques, serving lunch to the poor at the soup kitchen daily, youth and children’s meetings, Communion ministry to shut-ins and are always responsive whenever a need appears.
Living H20 Youth, St Lucia, Soaked up Living Water, Trinidad.
Five teenagers from Living H2O Youth Ministry, St Lucia, visited our Mother Community this past July (2014) for a time of ministry and formation alongside youth from our Saba mission and Living H2O Youth, Trinidad
They have also been involved in social outreach here, ministering at the Marian Home for the Elderly in St Lucia’s capital and house-to-house evangelization in the village of Laborie along the island’s south coast. Ave Maria House – Caring Centre
The first overseas mission of Living Water Community was to the tiny, Dutch island of Saba in 1987, at the invitation of Fr.A. Jansen (deceased) who came to Trinidad to seek out a replacement for the Dutch Dominican Sisters who had served in the territory for over a hundred years.
Saba is an extinct volcano that rises straight up out of the sea and its one concrete road, hewn manually out of the cliff-side, offers breath-taking views. The Saban people are descended from seafaring folk and are fiercely proud of and loyal to their beautiful island..
The major work of this mission is in Catechetical Formation – weekly religion classes and Sacramental preparation classes. Other mission work includes visitation to the elderly and shut ins on a weekly basis, a daily radio program from Monday to Friday and regular Monday prayer meetings for the covenant community, Children’s meeting on Wednesdays and youth on Thursdays and Fridays.
There is also a covenant community which presently stands at 15 members on Saba and three in St Eustatius – with the greatest membership being in heaven!
