All About Living Water Teaching

Living Water Teaching is the organization that I will be serving with in Guatemala. The picture above is from their 2008 Bible School Graduation. The heart of Living Water Teaching is the Bible Institutes. By training students in the Word of God and ministry skills LWT is able to have exponential growth in their effectiveness and outreaches. Through the Bible Institutes throughout Central and South America students are able to learn, grow and return to their home prepared to reach their community, country and the world for Christ!


Here is more background information about them, along with their Vision, and Tenants of Faith.

Background Info

After dissolving their Ohio construction firm in 1976, Jim and Marion Zirkle and their three children moved to Broken Arrow, OK. During two years of intense study in God’s Word, Jim was presented with an opportunity to minister to a group of missionaries working in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. It was during this time of ministry that the Spirit of God called him to Central America. Soon afterwards, the vision that today guides the entire ministry began to unfold.

Living Water Teaching was started in 1979 by the Zirkles. Since then, the work of this ministry has grown to include outreaches in eleven countries around the world. The Word of God is going forth by way of Bible schools, evangelistic campaigns, medical clinics, Operation Shoebox, and through the ministries of the graduates of the Bible Institutes in each of these countries.

When their Douglas DC-3 aircraft went down on November 1, 1998, taking the lives of Marion’s husband, son, son-in-law, two missionaries, and six group members from the United States, she knew that the vision was not completed. She picked up the mantle on that fateful night, and by the grace of God, continues running with the vision of changing Central America for Jesus.

On July 12, 2003, Marion married Pastor Clarence Wright and they, along with the Living Water Teaching family, are taking the gospel to Belize, Cuba, Mexico, the six countries in Central America, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay in South America.

Living Water Teaching is in its 30th year on the field and has currently graduated over 29,000 Bible school students. The ministry has seen over 700,000 born again over the last 29 years. More than 100 denominational groups have trusted us to train their leaders and young people. The commission of Living Water Teaching is to make disciples, and send them out to do the same.


Vision

The Vision of Living Water Teaching (As directed by the Holy Spirit)

• Convert My people to the Word, not to religion.
• Train them in righteousness.
• Show them by example My power to change lives by giving spiritual conditioning to their spirits, by way of the Word.
• You are to train My sent ones to go on and do greater than I have shown you by building on your errors and successes.
• The vision is transferable, but My commission is not! You are to carry it forth into all of Central America.
• Trouble the waters of Central America as the angel troubled the waters of Bethesda. Trouble them with faith, healing, and salvation.

Tenants of Faith

The program and activities of Living Water Teaching shall be based upon and at all times shall be consistent with the following beliefs:

• The Bible is the mind of Christ, and it is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God. II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:19-21; Hebrews 4:12.
• There is one God manifested in three personalities: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Isaiah 45:5,6; I John 5:7; Matthew 28:19.
• The reality of Satan and his present control over unregenerated man does exist. I Peter 5:8; Ephesians 6:11, 12; II Corinthians 4:4.
  

Christianity is based upon the following:

• The deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:15-17; John 10:30.
• Born of the Virgin Mary. Luke 1:26-35; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23.
• His sinless life. Hebrews 4:15; I Peter 2:22; II Corinthians 5:21.
• His miracles. John 3:2, 11:45, 20:30.
• His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood. Isaiah 53:4,5; I Peter 2:21-24; Colossians 1:14.
• His body resurrection. I Peter 1:21; Galatians 1:1; Romans 1:4.
• His ascension to the right hand of the Father. Acts 1:19-11; Ephesians 1:20; Colossians 3:1.
• His personal return in power and glory as Lord of Lords and Kings of Kings. Matthew 24:30, 25:31; Thessalonians 1:7-10.
• The fall of man and his lost of estate, which makes necessary a rebirth through confession and belief in the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 3:23, 5:12-21, 10:9,10; I Corinthians 15:21,22.
• The reconciliation of man to God by substitutionary death and shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:5-10; II Corinthians 5:18.
• The resurrection of believers into everlasting life and blessing in Heaven, and the resurrection of unbelievers unto everlasting punishment in the torments of Hell. John 5:28,19; I Thessalonians 4:16-18; Mark 16:16.
• The present supernatural ministry of the Holy Spirit, Who bestows the spiritual gifts of: the word of Wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healing, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, various kinds of tongues, in and among the believers on the Earth since the day of Pentecost and continuing until our Lords return. I Corinthians 12; John 16:7, 13:15; Ephesians 4:8.

For more information about Living Water Teaching, please visit their website at: http://www.livingwaterteaching.org/.