{"id":640,"date":"2017-01-29T04:03:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jim-burdett\/?p=640"},"modified":"2017-01-29T04:09:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:09:54","slug":"our-continued-hot-water-woes-and-jims-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jim-burdett\/2017\/01\/29\/our-continued-hot-water-woes-and-jims-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Our continued Hot water woes and Jim’s health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Hot water system was still not working. Our Tech guy, Josh Simmons, made two trips up to work on our plumbing situation. \u00a0Thankfully, he was able to replace old plumbing and improve the whole system and put in an expansion tank which made the hot water flow but caused numerous leaks in our old used plumbing. \u00a0Remember we had to rebuild in 2010 and to save money we used a lot of old plumbing parts. \u00a0But Josh put in new improved pipes, shut off valves for each tap, and now we have a great working system with plenty of hot water. \u00a0Up until now for a few months, Jim was heating the water in our old hot water system that was no longer attached to our house. \u00a0He then would carry the hot water to the house and we were back to using bucket showers. Sadly we are not at home now to enjoy\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

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One of our support guys had bought fuel and food supplies to bring up thinking that they would have to be carried over the landslide. \u00a0Due to a number of things, the trip kept getting delayed. \u00a0Then the landslide was removed so when Josh came up the first trip, he brought our supplies in. Then we had to leave.<\/p>\n

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Since October Jim has had numerous illnesses that come around, absolutely no energy and if you know Jim, you know that is unlike him. \u00a0He is seldom sick and has lots of energy. \u00a0So we came down to town on the 20th (had a guy there who could drive us out). Our doctor has him on medication, took lots of blood to run tests. \u00a0There are some other things going on also and we are waiting until Friday to see if this procedure works or not. \u00a0It may mean a trip to Australia for further treatment. \u00a0So your prayers are much appreciated that we won’t need to go to Australia. \u00a0 Our doctor said that Jim needed to stay here for a couple of weeks and not go back home.<\/p>\n

So Thursday I returned to Dom with Josh driving our truck, so that I could pack some more things that were needed for a longer stay and give our security guy some more supplies for his stay each night.<\/p>\n

I had just arrived back on Friday, when our coworker called us to inform us that our landowner, security guy and one of our Bible teacher’s house had burned down. \u00a0He had just bought meat bird chicks. \u00a0He was keeping them warm with a fire in their hauskuk (Kitchen house) and the fire was too big and caught the kitchen (all bush materials) on fire and then it spread to his house. \u00a0They were not able to save anything. \u00a0Bapka and Silia have grown immensely in the Lord as individuals and as a couple. \u00a0They often are known to help older people with firewood, help others with food. \u00a0They are just trying to earn money so they can send two of \u00a0their kids to high school. \u00a0This is a huge blow to them. \u00a0We feel frustrated that we are away and our coworkers are also leaving for a few weeks so not able to help at this time. \u00a0We would appreciate prayer that they would not be angry or bitter but would trust God through this huge trial in their lives. \u00a0We are praying also that the \u00a0church would rally around them. \u00a0Right now no one has any money as the deaths of recent months have depleted their resources.<\/p>\n

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We were wanting to meet with the church in regards to appointing and training teachers, both men and women, and were wanting to start a literacy class but that is all on hold. \u00a0Jim was also wanting to get with Gena and go through the Dom New Testaments and work on the things that needed to be changed so we can print the hardback version. \u00a0We know that we are in God’s hands and that His timing is perfect so we wait. \u00a0Your prayers are appreciated.<\/p>\n

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