HALA  TANDO Drinking  Water  and  Living  Water By  Marc Since  coming  back  from  the  capital,  we’ve  been  quite  busy  with  house  projects,  orienting  a  new  missionary  family  and  helping  with  a  new  well  project.    Meanwhile  the  translation  and  literacy  work  continue  to  march  forward. To  start  with,  we  cleaned  and  sealed  two  cement  floors  in  our  house.    Not  long  after  that  a  new  missionary  family  arrived  at  our  place.    Steve  and  Alésha  Hagemeyer  and  their  four  children  are  planning  on  working  here  in  the  forest  region  in  the  area  of  community  development.    Living  in  our  village  home  has  been  part  of  their  orientation. Besides  learning  about  living  in  a  remote  village,  Steve  and  I  recently  went  down  to  our  nearby  market  city  with  our  local  well-drilling  team  to  help  a  pastor  get  a  well  drilled  for  his  literacy  center.    We’re  trying  out  some  of  the  new  equipment  we  received  as  gifts  from  the  Water4  organization  a  few  years  ago. So  far  the  project  has  been  going  fairly  well,  with  us  getting  down  to  16  meters.    We  have  had  some  problems  with  heavy  mud  making  it  difficult  to  turn  the  augur.    We’re  hoping  to  purchase  some  more  tools  in  the  next  year  to  deal  with  such  situations.  If  all  goes  well  we’ll  end  up  with  a  clean  water  well  20  meters  or  deeper  when  completed.

September 2014 News about the Gebhard family’s work with the Lele people in West Africa

“Whoever  drinks  the  water  I  give  him  will  never  thirst.    Indeed,  the  water  I  give  him  will  become  in  him  a  spring  of  water  welling  up  to  eternal  life.”    -Jesus  (John  4:14)

Pray

x� Well-drilling—Pray  for  good  progress  and  encouraging  results  with  our  current  well  drilling  project  at  a  forest  literacy  center.    We  are  at  about  16  meters  deep  right  now  and  we  hope  to  get  to  20  meters  to  provide  clean  drinking  water  for  the  neighborhood.

x� Bible  Translation—Praise  God  for  giving  Pastor  Jonas  the  strength  to  continue  on  in  the  Lele  translation.    Pray  for  wisdom  as  he  rough-drafts  John’s  gospel.    Pray  also  for  his  mother  who  is  still  recovering  from  a  stroke.

x� Kids’  Schooling—Pray  for  good  progress  in  our  children’s  education.

x� EFV  Outbreak—Pray  that  the  current  hemorrhagic  fever  outbreak  in  West  Africa  could  be  controlled.    Pray  for  all  those  suffering  from  the  illness  and  the  families  of  the  deceased.

Lele  well  drilling  crew  arrives  at  12  meters  depth  as  they  work  on  a  deep  water  

well  for  a  local  literacy  center  in  the  forest  region.    We  hope  to  get  to  the  depth  

of  20  meters  or  more  to  provide  clean  water  in  the  neighborhood.

MR.  MARC,  LA  PHOTO,  LA  

PHOTO!”  Village  kids  line  up  

to  get  their  picture  taken.

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In  addition  to  all  of  this,  Pastor  Jonas  recently  started  rough-drafting  the  gospel  of  John.    In  fact  last  week  he  preached  a  sermon  out  of  his  rough  translation.    Wow—talk  about  transformed  lives  through  God’s  Word!    He  preached  a  sermon  on  John  3:16-17.    It  was  the  basic  gospel  message  about  how  we  need  to  be  born  again—spiritually. Seeing  the  guys  drilling  this  well  is  getting  Steve  and  I  very  excited.    We  see  all  sorts  of  possibilities  down  the  road.    Recently  Good  News  Productions  sent  us  one  of  their  solar  projector  kits  along  with  digital  copies  of  the  Jesus  film  in  several  languages.    We  could  go  to  a  remote  village  and  

work  on  drilling  their  well  during  the  day  and  show  films  about  Jesus  at  night.    I’m  hoping  to  do  this  very  thing  this  upcoming  dry  season. Please  pray  for  the  team  and  the  progress  of  this  well.    Many  people  have  come  to  watch  their  work  and  are  quite  impressed.    Requests  come  in  each  day  to  have  these  guys  work  on  other  wells.    We’ve  had  local  government  

officials  and  owners  of  hotels  coming  to  look  at  the  well  in  progress.    There  is  even  an  national  aid  organization  considering  helping  our  team  in  future  projects. While  we  continue  to  work  on  the  Bible  translation,  this  group  of  trained  well-drillers  could  be  going  out  to  various  unreached  villages  and  bringing  clean  water  and  the  message  about  Jesus  along  with  it. Thanks  for  your  prayers  for  our  work.    Thank  you  also  for  your  support  of  the  clean  water  project  and  the  translation  of  God’s  word  into  the  Lele  language. If  you  would  like  to  contribute  a  special  gift  to  help  get  clean  water  wells  drilled  in  remote  villages,  please  write  “Village  Well  Drilling”  on  your  donation  check.    Thank  you  much!

PBT  community  development  

worker  Steve  Hagemeyer  helps  crew  

inspect  well-drilling  equipment.

Pastor  Jonas