From @mmm_water ... 2023 Well Season: Daily Devotional

September 1 - October 31 is Marion Medical Mission Well Season for 2023. The season will include daily devotionals - one for each day the U.S. volunteers are overseas, sharing the love of Jesus by providing safe, clean, sustainable sources of drinking water to the extreme poor in sub-Saharan Africa. Marion Medical Mission is one of our mission partners at Grace Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas, and we STRONGLY encourage you to read these devotions to learn more about - and pray for! - their mission.

October 5, 2023

SPREAD THE WORD
Chuck Overstreet
Volunteer, Virginia

Jesus looked at them and said to them “with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” - Matthew 19:26

Tnscribed on the top of every Marion Medical Mission concrete well head is “GLORY TO GOD.” I love to tell people about MMM. I am often asked if the American volunteers dig the wells. They do not, but after I explain some construction details, the next question is usually “What do the Americans do?” I tell them about the extreme poverty in the rural areas of Eastern Africa and that these subsistence farmers do not have vehicles, they walk. I then talk about the American volunteers who drive four-wheel drive trucks during the well season and I take the opportunity to explain that each well costs only $450 US dollars.

Another important responsibility of the Americans is to spread the word to others upon returning to America. I especially enjoy seeing the expression on their faces when they hear the number of wells completed, more than 3,200 in 2020 and over 3,400 in 2021,-with no American volunteers.

I do not share this with them to brag, but to talk about what the Lord has done through MMM. Let us not forget what the apostle Paul writes in Ephesians 2:8-10 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and it is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

The Africans are achieving the IMPOSSIBLE, but only with God’s help.

Application Question: There are so many ways to spread the word of both MMM and the gospel. How are you spreading the word?

Prayer: Dear heavenly Father, help us to spread the word. Help us to find ways to share with others the good news. Dear Lord we ask that You watch over the MMM staff and the American volunteers doing Your work. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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