Why should we learn the ways of water?

“Okay,” our teacher pointed to the water reservoir on the powerpoint diagram, “in this situation, how many of you think you would want to place your pipe in the bottom of the tank?”  We kept our hands down.  The scenario was a gravity feed water system, but there was a huge rock in front of the reservoir blocking the path of the proposed pipe.  We had already learned that the “water head” was the same at the top of the tank and at the bottom, so why should we try to blast through the rock just so the pipe could go in at the bottom?  “How many of you think it should go near the top?”  Almost all of us raised our hands.  “How many want it in the middle?”  One guy raised his hand.

“Well only one of you is right.” our teacher said, “and here’s why.”  As soon as he explained the ways of water, it made perfect sense why we would want the pipe in the middle this time.  But without knowing the ways of water…I would probably guess wrong most of the time.

The point of  Missionary Technology class is to keep us (when we get to the field) from wasting lots of time trying to fix broken water systems (that broke because of ignorance) or recover from sickness (caused by water that wasn’t properly filtered), or…any number of scenarios that could be avoided by proper information.  The point of Missionary Technology class is to free missionaries up so we can focus as much time and energy as possible on getting the Word of God to an unreached people group.

And that’s just one more reason why WE ARE GLAD WE ARE HERE!

Thank you for your prayers and for being so supportive of us as we go through training.

Love,

Jevon and Danica