Monday, June 20, 2011

Building a Vision for the Ga’dang

This short video was put together by some fellow missionaries that came to visit us a couple weeks ago.  I hope you enjoy it and that you will pray for us, our support staff including our pilot and the Ga’dang people.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Water Project & UK Summit Team 2011

We are very excited to finally be getting started on the water project for the village.  Knowing that this project was going to be a lot of work for us and the village people, we thought that it would be great to have the UK Summit team back with us again this July.  Every year a group of people looking to be exposed to missions and people wanting to help out missionaries, come together from the UK to the Philippines.  If you remember we hosted the team last July when we were trying to get our house to a point that we could move in.  Chuck and Christina had such a great time with them, we knew that all of us as a family would love to have them with us too.  Our leadership decided that it would be a great fit for the team.  We are really excited to host them.

This is the team as they met for a weekend orientation. (2 people are missing)

Summit Team 2011

What will they be doing?

We are bringing fresh water from a spring into the village so the people can have clean drinking water.  This will also help them in the times of dry season when there is little water in the village wells. 

There will be lots of digging, laying pipe, mixing cement, burying pipe and so on.  There will be so much for them to do.

Ga’dang people will be helping too.

Last week Chuck met with the men in the village so we could get them started on the prep work involved.  The hope is that we can get the pipe in the ground from the spring to the village before the team arrives in the second week of July.  Everyone was very excited and looking to help however they can.

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Will you pray for us as we plan and work on this project? 

There is still lots of planning to be done.  The people in the village are getting their rice fields ready for planting in July, so helping dig trenches will take away from that work. 

Pray for the Summit team as they plan to come.  Pray they will all get along and learn more about missions while here.

Pray for the finances for this project.  We need about $3500 to pay for all the materials.  For more information, send us an email.  Or go to NTM's Website to find out more.

Pray for us as we balance language study and working on the project in the weeks ahead.