Dear Prayer Partners,
Thank you for your prayers. The Pressure Pump is fixed as well as redoing the pipes around the pump to a standard size. The only other problem that was noticed was that the pressure for the hotwater was low. The lines were full of something so we got everything cleaned out except the bathtub (both hot and cold need help.) Monty Miller is busy right now and will help me with that later. I am glad I had my second bathroom finished while I was in Oregon. It has a shower that works (no sink yet but a shower.)
Right now the village I live in has no water. Last weekend, someone cut the electric lines and stole some of the parts of the pump to the well. The damage will cost our communitte $1500 US to resolve the mess; while the robbers probable only got $35 worth of copper wire out of the mess. They were so mad that the community used a non-copper wire that they cut up that wire into little pieces. The only clue to who it may be were hoof prints around the area. They were riding horses so they could reach the wires. Much of the expense will fall on the "richer ones" as only 1/3 of the communitte even pays their water bill.
Pray for the robbers to be caught. Pray that something can be done to protect the pump.
Also pray that my mission can do something to help this community. We have four of our Mexican trainees giving a couple Bible Studies and teaching English in the area. I have talked with them about other ideas, and they are thinking of us doing a survey to find out what activies would the youth like to do. Right now we are praying together for the Lord to help us with ideas. The Mexican Government wants to see our mission doing more Social Development here in Mexico. We are looking for ideas but we NEED THE LORD’S WISDOM AND LOTS OF PRAYER of which way to go. It takes special people to empliment ideas. I am an idea person, but I can’t carry the ideas through to the finished project.
This is where you, as my partners, come in. Please PRAY for the LORD to lead us and direct us in getting something going in my village so that we may be able to bring up a new generation of responsible people. And above all, to BRING PEOPLE TO THE SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST.
Thank you for praying,
Barbara Russ
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