David Sabatini is a distinguished professor of engineering at the University of Oklahoma. But he would rate that particular accolade as below of list of several others: Christ follower, husband, father and innovator of water projects.

Sabatini spoke both to the College of Engineering and to our Faculty-Administrator-Staff fellowship on February 23. His passion to provide clean water to emerging countries does not provide great financial rewards, he told the Fellowship, but it does allow him a way to live out his faith.

His recent article in Huffington Post explained that too often Western charity involves projects that aren’t sustainable. He wants to see lasting effects in the lives of others.