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 the following to learn more about - and pray for! - their mission.
We'd Like to Share a Miracle with You
"The joy of the Lord is your strength." (Nehemiah 8:10)
Each year the drill is pretty much the same; load up the Land Cruiser with pipes, pumps and tools, pick up the African workers who are to guide us that day, and drive off into the bush to as many villages as possible that day to complete the installation of the pumps in the wells already built by the villagers themselves. Depending both on the distances between the villages and on the length of the hikes to get to the well sites, we can usually install between seven and ten pumps in a day. It’s hot, hard, tiring work that is both physically and emotionally demanding. Pretty much the same, day after day, sun-up to sun-down, six days a week, for six weeks.
Except not really.
What really happens is extraordinary and exceptional. In each and every village, I greet the villagers, I dance with the women, I laugh and play with the children. We look into each others’ faces -- for a second, we really see into each others’ eyes -- and we truly share the joy and happiness we’re both feeling in this incredible moment together. We celebrate together the God-given miracle of having clean water in their village for the first time!
No longer will they drink from mud-holes shared with pigs and cows! No longer will they suffer from water-borne diseases! The connection between two strangers -- a “mzungu” woman from Alabama and a Malawian villager who’s never even had a white person the village before -- is real and meaningful and powerful, even if only for a moment. It’s a connection that is full to overflowing with the presence and love and joy of God.
Thank you, donors -- you bring the celebrations!
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