We had a drill team from TN that wanted to drill for a church on the south side of Teguic. However, on the trip down our work truck lost all brakes coming down a mountain and required a complete brake job, including master cylinder...fortunately no one was injured. Then when we saw the site we knew it wouldn't support a well and we anguished over the decision that night, even though we knew we had to tell the pastor we couldn't drill for him...I told the team in these instances God always gets the praise even when we feel we failed...the next morning we told the pastor the bad news and he didn't seem too distressed, instead he wanted to talk about building a 'football' field for the youth. He ask for 900 block to build the wall for the field, which represented the exact amount of money the team had brought with them to purchase a hand pump. God supplied even when we didn't know he was supplying. We left for SPS feeling as if we had accomplished God's purpose.
The trip back was difficult but we got here and the next day went to La Sabana to repair a well damaged by the earthquake two months ago. We were drilling when suddenly the drilling mud started coming up out of the ground under the rig...we dug a channel from there to the drill hole and then it came up under my feet, then in other areas....evidently the earthquake had fractured the ground and we couldn't keep our drilling mud down hole...we would have to stop.
We took the equipment back to the depot and there the main seal on the transmission of our 'good' truck gave way and we lost our transmission fluid. Now that truck was in the garage and we were without transportation...hiring a cab for everything, i.e. food, water, ice, bread, practices, etc.
On top of that the oldest two boys have really been a problem, particularly Gershon. Please pray for them to 'get it'! We found out Carla has been contacting Gershon, getting him to say things about us and then embellishing them before calling Fiscaglia and filing complaints against us. We're not worried about that, because that's what fired employees do; but we are worried about Gershon's willingness to be a part of it.
I want to make sure everybody out there knows exactly how much we appreciate your prayers and support. Joyce and I are positive we couldn't make without you and are grateful to you. However, we also need to let you know that we need 100% of you; 50, or 60, or 75% won't get the job done! We face unbelievable monthly costs and things like both trucks breaking down greatly affect us negatively. But even more than your support we need your prayers...we know you pray for us, or we couldn't keep going....but we're finding this task to be much more difficult than we anticipated and we are just plain wearing down...we are frazzled, confused, and tired! We're not complaining or crying or ready to quit; just telling you how it is so you can press in even more and recruit more partners for us.
The scars in these children are deeper than we ever expected and our successes are measured in inches and it seems as if our setbacks come in 'giant steps'. However, the successes are permanent and the setbacks are temporary; so even though it may seem from day to day like we making little or no progress we believe we are beginning to penetrate their minds and hearts. It's tough and it takes tough partners, which is why we're so grateful for each of you!
No comments:
Post a Comment