WeChat ESL Class on October 22, 2016

A. High Lights of the Week

B Easy Dialogue: Choosing a Job
A: I have a problem.
B: Tell me about it.
A: I got hired at a restaurant and a clothing store.
B: What's the problem?
A: I can only work for one of them.
B: I think you should work at the restaurant.
A: Tell me why.
B: Folding clothes is annoying.
A: What else is bad about clothing stores.
B: Customers always mess up the clothes.
A: Anything else?
B: You get tips at restaurants.
A: That's a good point.

C. Biography: 
Theresa Dankovich
Co-founder, chairperson, and chief scientist for Folia Water, a benefit corporation dedicated to the scaling and distribution of the new water filter paper, called Folia Filters, as seen in the Drinkable Book TM.

Previously, a post-doctoral researcher at University of Virginia. Through UVA's collaboration with University of Venda in South Africa, my team tested the antibacterial nanoparticle paper filters with contaminated field samples from streams in South Africa. I was part of an interdisciplinary program with the Center for Global Health and the Civil and Environmental Engineering department to investigate water purification in developing countries. Also, I invented antibacterial paper filters using copper nanoparticles at UVA.

Prior to this, I completed my Ph.D. in materials chemistry, where I worked on an interdisciplinary project, which incorporates materials chemistry, microbiology, nanotechnology, water purification, and green chemistry. My doctoral research showed that a really thick sheet of paper could eliminate bacteria from drinking water by adding a silver nanoparticle (AgNP) coating, something which had not previously been demonstrated.

Specialties: Materials chemistry, nanotechnology, renewable materials, green chemistry, environmental analysis, antimicrobial materials, water analysis, WASH, international field tests, water purification, surface and colloid chemistry.

D. Reading and Discussion

Read: John 4:7-15
John 4:7-15 English Standard Version (ESV)
⁷ A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” ⁸ (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) ⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” ¹³ Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” ¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
E. Bible Lesson - Listening

The water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.—John 4:14

Because it is so difficult in parts of the world to find clean drinking water, an organization called Water Is Life developed a wonderful resource called “The Drinkable Book.” The paper in the book is coated in silver nanoparticles that filter out almost 99.9 percent of harmful bacteria! Each tear-out page can be used and reused to filter up to 100 liters of water at the cost of only four pennies per page.

The Bible is also an unusually “drinkable” Book. In John 4, we read of a particular kind of thirst and a special kind of water. The woman at the well needed much more than to quench her physical thirst with clean, clear liquid. She was desperate to know the source of “living water.” She needed the grace and forgiveness that comes from God alone.

God’s Word is the ultimate “drinkable” Book that points to God’s Son as the sole source of “living water.” And those who accept the water that Jesus gives will experience “a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (v. 14). —Cindy Hess Kasper

Father, we yearn for the satisfaction that only You can give. Help us discard the things that leave us empty and thirsting, and exchange them for the satisfaction of the living water You offer.
 

Jesus is the sole source of living water.

INSIGHT: The Samaritan woman thinks of “water” as purely material—just H2O. So, in her conversation with Jesus, she is stuck on having to trudge tiresomely back and forth daily to this well—perhaps a hundred feet deep—and use muscle power to draw and hoist the container of water homeward. Jesus’s statements symbolize salvation and satisfaction in what is both essential and enjoyable in water; He wants to ratchet up her understanding of eternal life in Him (John 4:14). Perhaps the closest thing to a definition of “eternal life” is found in John 17:3: “This is eternal life: that they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” Eternal life means having a relationship with God by knowing Jesus Christ. Jim Townsend