Celebrating God's provision

Celebrating Water!!

Have you had a crisis recently? We did. Our water pump died. So our water was in our well, but not able to get to our sinks, showers, toilets. We quickly installed buckets of water all over the house to use for water. (Bucket baths arent' so fun...)


Marikot & Jonas- Thanks guys

We were able to get colleagues in Bamako to buy a pump for us. We sent one of our believers up on the 5pm bus on Thursday night. He arrived Friday morning, got the pump, got back on the bus in time to get a 10 am bus to come back. He arrived late at night Friday. Saturday morning he arrived bright and early at our house, smiling with pump in hand. Jonas, Marikot (Eadelman's guard) and our neighbor Bamba all helped me install the pump. In about an hour or so, we turned it on, and celebrated the sound of water running into our water tower!!

I told the guys we were going to celebrate God's provision of the pump. I went to the bus station. (That is where you can buy ready-cooked food in Kadiolo) I bought about $4 of roasted sheep meat. Yum yum... We celebrated God's goodness together, a good finish to a job well done.

Do we celebrate God enough in our lives? Not the big big stuff, but even little things like this? I've been reminded about celebrating this kind of thing a lot recently, and is partly why I even thought to do it this time. I think we need to celebrate Him more... don't you? So we celebrated with a prayer, and sheep meat to enjoy!

Caleb & Stephan

Caleb was pleased yesterday, too. His close friend came back to Kadiolo. He'd been away visiting family for the summer. So they enjoyed a night in a tent, watching an intellectual movie in french. Those two boys laughed and giggled, and pinched and poked... like boys do. They had a great time. We are so thankful to God for friendships like this for Caleb.

Thanks for celebrating with us. Thanks for praying, and stopping by!
Tom & Lisa