Thursday, January 27, 2011

Friends In Action in Burkina Faso












This is Thursday morning. After emerging from our mosquito net cocoons we had breakfast at our guest house kitchen. We spent the better part of the morning with Mark Collier and Matt Durkee. We visited FIAINTL's new office and then went out to the school site where the well drilling equipment is located for the Water Of Life well-drilling that is going on here in Burkina. This was equipment that I last saw at Jake Hitz's shop when it was getting worked on a number of years ago. It was good to learn from Mark & Matt the methods they use in their drilling and how well the equipment is holding up. The generator on the accessory trailer quit producing voltage this week and we did a little examining of it to see if we could determine what might be wrong. Eventually we removed it from the trailer to place it on the ground in a location where it can be worked on. Hopefully we will get to learn a bit about what might be wrong with it, and perhaps even get it fixed before we leave on Monday or give some guidance to Mark and Matt as to what to do with it.

We are going to have lunch soon and will get to meet Dr. Jacob and Dr. Peter later this afternoon. We will then begin looking at the possibilities for projects here in Burkina Faso. There are great opportunities here to share the love of Jesus with these people.

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