Terry & Kathy WALLER - Water for All (Update 07/18/2007)
Water for All is a holistic Christian development program sharing Jesus in Word and deed in Bolivia and Ethiopia, teaching the poor to drill their own deep water wells. The Wallers are sponsored by Southland Baptist Church of San Angelo, TX, Hendricks Ave. Baptist Church of Jacksonville Florida, University Baptist Church of Arlington TX, Trinity Baptist of San Antonio, World Concern Bolivia, Baptists in Bolivia, and other caring churches and individuals.
UPDATE:
Dear Friends,
Please pray for us today as we are out drilling in the village of Awashbuni in Central Ethiopia. A huge breathtaking beutiful valley dotted with round thatch villages and very poor people working very hard to get their grain crop in. Hundreds of people plowing with bulls as far as the eye can see. Epic. We were drilling yesterday with Joe at one of these compounds with the local families and the local Ethiopian missionary asked me to share with the Gospel with a house hold (in huge round hourse in the cow section, the houses are just great here). I asked the wife if she knew any of the story of Jesus and she said she didn’t know a thing but wanted to hear. So I told an overview of the story from creation on. The missionary has asked me to speak and give a deveotional today also, he said their will be people coming from all around to hear. So please pray for me as I tell the story. Joe and the folks here have drilled three wells in this villae “water club” so far and a little church has started. 25 people they said last week made decissions to follow Christ. So pray that we can be a blessing.
The potential for our well drilling stuff is just enormous. There are good winds and we see we can add windmills eventually that may help the people raise more livestock and take some pressure off the land. These are cow people, the cows live with the families. The land is overworked and needs some rest. Having water to keep more cows and put some land to pasture would help rest the land and give savings accounts to people. We will see. Zero till systems would also help. We see WFA will have a lot we can do and help with here eventually.
Joe has just done a great job of getting WFA started and we hope to see many more clubs or families drilling in the future. The local Baptist denomination is also drilling our WFA wells in the area. We stoped and saw three of the wells they drilled with WFA pumps that families can make and maintain. So six new wells in this area already. I also talked to the head of a technical school Selam that has started a well drilling business with our technology and they have drilled 20 wells so far he said. (They charge a big fee for thier wells, be a well is a well). The are putting rope pumps on those wells. With the other wells Joe and I drilled so in earlier trials, about 30 wells drilled already in Ethiopia. We still have a lot to do logistically to get going really good here, but God is blessing. But hundreds and really thousands more wells need to be drilled, and tapping into people power and teaching the folks to do it themselves is the only way it will ever happen. So prat for WFA as we begin that process. Maybe someday we will look across this place we are working and see hundreds of little WFA windmills dotting the plane and families helped some. We will be working on designing a windmill variation for this area that families can manage as we did in Bolivia and getting local guys building them eventually out in the rural areas.
Pray for me as I speak today. The well by the way is going fine. We got started late but drilled 10 meters. We expect to drill 20 or thirty meters. Do pray for us as we get a WFA shop and facitlites started in the village area for our long term presence. The well cost by the way is going to be very similar to Bolivia. We have a design with about $100 in material for casing and pump per well in this area. And the people are doing the work. This is just the begininng here but do pray for us. Also pray for Bolivia where WFA is training a group of Bolivian missionaries this month from the New Tribes missionary school in Santa Cruz. Also we will be starting a club with 17 families in San Juan de la Cruz. Also pray for Kathy and the kids and that I get home safe.
Thanks so much for supporting us and praying for us.
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