September 16, 2013

September has already been a very full and eventful month and it is only half over. Westport Road Baptist Church sent their second team for this summer.  There were 7 men and 3 women.  Last year when the team was here from WRBC they asked to partner with the church in Blanquette.  One of the projects they wanted to do was fence in the church property.  David looked and looked for fencing for the project and it wasn't until one week before the team arrived that he found it at a hardware store we use all the time.  They had just received it and had not even put the price in the computer yet. PTL!   Lord is always on time.  There were 120 posts to be put in and 1200 ft  of fencing in some extremely rough terrain.  The church had volunteers to dig the holes and our crew poured the cement and set the poles.  The men worked Monday through Thursday and the ladies helped out on Tuesday and Thursday.  The guys really bragged on how well the ladies worked.  ALL came in hot and tired but satisfied to get the job completed.
At the same time Jan Flanagan and 3 ladies from the US came and stayed in our two apartments upstairs at the VQ.  They had 8 ladies and 1 man come to the compound each day for a sewing conference.  What fun to see them make all the different items...hopefully will be able to make and sell some of them.  Both groups interacted well and had great fellowship.
Friday ended with a BANG!!!  Healing Hands....Curt King driller....drilled in a new well for us on the compound.  After two dry holes of  627ft SUCCESS....a 12 gallon per minute well.  This one well is producing more than 6 other wells we have on property.God is good!
MONDAY!!!!  When David and one of the team members started to put a new part on the well rig machine...they noticed that the entire mast had a HUGE bend in it.  Our Haitian well driller finally gave some reason for the problem.  We had another well driller on property and he wasn't encouraging that it could be fixed.  Any of you who know David know that he never sees anything as impossible. After 4 days of hard labor and lots of prayer the rig was back in working condition. The rig was moved today and started drilling again.