Staff
"Believe me, anyone who gives even a drink of water to one of these little ones... will by no means lose his reward.” Matthew 10:42
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Bruce V Rydbeck,
P.E., D.WRE 
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Bruce holds civil engineering degrees from Clarkson and Northeastern and worked for consulting engineering firms in the Boston area ten years, while completing his master’s degree.
Bruce has a wide variety of design and construction experience on overseas development projects and for 26 years developed and directed the clean water projects ministry of Desarrollo Comunitario Vozandes. As a rural water supply consultant for Life Giving Water International, he now helps build and rehabilitate community water systems in Ecuador and Peru. Bruce is a Diplomat Water Resources Engineer, a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and holds engineering credentials in Ecuador. He is a member of the American Water Works Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Scientific Affiliation. He has presented a number of technical papers on aspects of international development at conferences. Bruce enjoys mountain biking and has climbed several of Ecuador’s Andean mountain peaks including Cotopaxi at 19,350 feet. Bruce and his wife Cherith are fluent in Spanish and have lived for most of the past 34 years in Ecuador with the exception of 15 months when they worked on the Tenwek Hospital hydro-electric power plant in western Kenya. |
“See I am making all things new…to the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.”
(Rev. 21:5-6) |
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Cherith Brabon Rydbeck
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In 1981, Bruce and Cherith, together with their two sons, Joel and Caleb, moved to Papallacta, Ecuador, for a three-year assignment during which time their youngest child, Lydia, was born.
“I have a real heart for evangelism, for sharing what God’s doing in my life with people and listening to where they’re at,” said Cherith. “God’s given me that gift of perceiving where people are and being able to speak His truth into their lives and help people along in their spiritual journey. Many people have come to know Jesus.” Cherith holds a M.Ed. from University of Massachusetts/Boston and a B.A. from Asbury University. |
"Believe me, anyone who gives even a drink of water to one of these little ones... will by no means lose his reward.” Matthew 10:42
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I [Jehovah], provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise. Isaiah 43:20 & 21
