Pray for Rain

{matthew, isaac, & silas playing with friends in the rain}

 

     Ok, so I know this sounds kinda strange when you live in the tropics and it is supposed to be rainy season. So, here is the deal. We are working at POC (Pacific Training Course) right now. I am the center manager and Tiff is doing all sorts of jobs here on top of homeschooling. All the new students have arrived this week (from 4 different mission agencies) and classes started Wednesday. Our center has 2 ways to get water. The main one is rain. We catch rain off of all the roofs of all the buildings (this is drinking water and sometimes water for washing clothes, bathing, and flushing toilets). The other is pumping water up from a creek for everything but drinking. Yesterday (Thursday) 3 different water pumps died. We lost two pumps that move water from the two largest rain water holding tanks to the header tanks that give us water pressure. This would not be so bad except we also lost the pump that brings up creek water. We were able to get one of them up and running today but we still cannot draw water from the creek or the largest holding tank. I went to town today to try and get some new pumps and there are none to be had in Madang (the 4th or 5th largest city in the country). I had to order them from Lae (the 2nd largest city) and they will be here Monday. But until then it’s going to either take me hooking and unhooking one pump that we have working, and moving it around all weekend (which I’m not looking forward to) or some good heavy tropical rain storms to fill the tanks. So, I am asking you to pray hard for the latter. thanks.

matt