Well Drilling

As many of you may have heard, we are beginning a partnership with a well drilling organization called Water For All.  They work in partnering with nationals in third world countries to teach them how to create drilling rigs with  a type of rope and pulley system (and other technical methods which I don’t understand as of yet) with the goal of water clubs being developed and people helping other families and villages around them to drill their own pump wells to make clean drinking water available.  This is a huge deal for the Kabiye people here in Togo as many of the villages we work with have no wells or maybe only a handful of wells for the entire village that are operational in the dry season (more than half of our calendar year) 

An intern with the Water For All project, Matthew Waller, arrived last week and will be with our team for two months helping us drill a test well (or possibly multiple wells, depending on how well things go) and teaching us how to make the rig and do the drilling so that we can continue to teach others this inexpensive and great method of finding and maintaining a clean water supply.  We are very excited to have him here and are thankful for all that he is doing to teach us.  For his perspective on his first week here click on this link to his blog. 

 Please continue to pray with us that God will use this effort to bless many people both physically and spiritually as Kabiye Christians can use these skills as opportunities to tell neighbors the good news of Jesus!  Pray for David, too, as he gives his time and energy over the next few months to getting this project off the ground.