African Rain!
We woke up this morning to the sound of rain on the tin roof. So excited we all peeked out to smell the beautiful smell of fresh dewy rain. Some of us girls ran out the front door to dance in the rain, just to marvel in God's wonder!
I just remembered another thing we heard about God's greatness. Joel was telling us what happened with the well. A few weeks ago it stopped working because of iron build up in the pipes. They all needed to be replaced. But since the well supplies the entire orphanage with water at 20-30 liters per child, per day, they needed an alternative. But God had already provided. With out seeing rain for awhile, the day before the well broke it rained , and they have rain catchers in these big containers, they were able to have enough water for the time it took the well to be fixed!
Talking about the well, we visited it quite often yesterday. Each one of the children pump and fill two 10 liter jerry cans for their daily use, everyday!!! We jumped in to help, wow it is very tiring, and we hardly filled one! You have to pump the handle from one end and it pulls the water from the ground and drips it over a filtration system to try and clean the water as much as possible. Than goes through small spout for the kids to fill the jerry cans with.
These are you children filling these cans and carrying them. We pumped and got tired very fast. They say us Americans have no stamina, so true! When they have American workers they always give up first!
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