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LLULLUCHA, Perú – Every December, members of South Main Baptist Church in Houston travel to a Peruvian village to participate in Buckner International’s Christmas in Perú event where gifts, shoes and resources are given to a community. This past year, the village of Llullucha also received a water reservoir system, providing 60 homes with pure, drinkable run- ning water.
South Main Baptist Church raised the funds for the reservoir in honor of longtime member and frequent Buckner mission trip participant Dean Edwards.
Edwards loved to help people, said
Henry Hill, Edwards’ friend and fellow member of South Main Baptist Church.
“I remember one trip in Russia, we needed to do some repair work, and he was insistent that we look for those parts,”
He went on many mission trips and was generous with his time and finances. Edwards built laundromats for a living and often asked to view the laundry rooms of the orphanages the mission team visited. It was common for him to provide equipment and resources to improve the orphanage’s laundry systems.
Hill said. “When others stayed in the orphanage, we went in a bus going to what I describe as the laundry graveyard to find the part, and sure enough, we found it.”
But in Perú, Edwards discovered that building laundromats wouldn’t help the small community the mission team was serving. Without electricity and running water, laundromats were unnecessary.
“He knew that what he did in his career and what he had helped with in the past did not fit the needs here,” Hill said. “The fact that they didn’t have running water really bothered him, and he often talked about how to help them with their water needs.”
Edwards began talking to his family and men’s Bible class about ways to meet the water needs for a Peru- vian village. Unfortunately, Edwards died before the
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