Christmas and pump update

We have been having a wonderful time celebrating the birth of our Saviour. A few of the things that we try to do each year with our children, is giving small Christmas gifts to all the people that work at the mission and on Christmas day go through the hospital, greeting all the people and giving them small pieces of candy.
As the children get older they get more involved in each of these activities.
Naomi, Jonathan and Rebekah enjoyed giving the gifts to the workers. Robert "helped" a little, but mainly just said "bonswa" (good afternoon or evening) to people as they came in.
The picture below is Annes and Jonathan. Annes asked to have his picture taken with his friend Jonathan. Annes is one of our drivers.

Taking our children through the hospital is something that we always do before we open our gifts on Christmas morning. It was so neat to see the smiles on people's faces as they see the children and interact with them. It is one small way that we can share God's love with people who are sick at Christmas.



The pump continues to be a huge matter of prayer. Yesterday the well drilling rig was able to come up again to put the new pump in. After they had the pump in the 400 feet deep well, they discovered that it was not the correct pump and this pump is only able to pump water up 200 feet instead of the needed over 400 feet. The place where we bought the pump quoted us the price for the correct pump, but then when our driver actually bought it it wasn't the right one.
Now we are not sure what we are going to do. We are hoping to have some visitors who are coming in a couple of weeks bring the correct pump with them. Then we will have to have the well rig come up once again to pull the wrong pump out and put the correct pump in.
This whole ordeal is really teaching us patience and also helping us to remember that God is in control. There are many times when we wonder why God allowed the pump to break during our dry season, but we know there are reasons and we are trusting God. We know that He is the all knowing God and He has a perfect plan in all of this.
We had to start buying water yesterday for the hospital kitchen and hospital laundry.
Continue to pray that in God's timing this pump would be repaired and we once again would be able to get the much needed water from it.
One item of praise that I can't overlook is that on the 23rd, we had a big storm pass through. We received lots of wind, but with that came over 2 inches of rain. To get this much rain during December is very rare, so this is a huge answer to prayer.
Thank you for joining us in prayer and we will keep you updated as things progress.

Water Pump and update

Just to update you on the water pump here. We are really praying that God would work the details out for someone from Blue Ridge Mission to come up soon to install the new pump. We have all the pieces here, we just need the rig to put the pump back in the deep well.
We are really starting to run low on water and it would be a huge answer to prayer to have the pump working again to put a little more water in our cisterns. This week a couple of the cisterns went dry and we still have 4 months of dry season to get through.

We as a family are doing well. Everyone is staying healthy and we are enjoying all the Christmas preparations. Grandma and Grandpa Baker are currently in the states, so that makes for a little more work for us, but we are managing. We pray that they are having a restful time, now that the board meeting is over and they have 2 weeks of "vacation."



Naomi, Jonathan and Rebekah were great helpers!


Thanks Grandma Campbell for the "HUGE" lollipops!!!