What a glorious day!

Good Wednesday evening for Kisumu area. We have had a really great day today and we are rejoicing tonight. Today was spent mostly around gathering the additional drilling supplies and making sure we had all the right stuff. It was somewhat of a challenge getting the right PVC pipe but it will be to us on Friday which should be just in time, we hope. We made it to the drill site around 2:30 this afternoon and began the training and assembling the tripod. Once we arrived, Pastor Jack of the church there in the village invited us to his home for a time of prayer and eating. We had a chance to experience Ugali for the first time. Kind of like cornbread for all you Americans. Meal included chicken (including the head which I ate). Joseph just told me that eating the head of a chicken means "Man of High Honor". That is a Kenyan, Luo Tribe custom belief. We also had Sukuma Wiki, a vegetable which means "Pushing the Week". Have you learnd something today? The pastor and his family was so gracious for providing us a meal and we prayed over his home. Then it was off to the well site which was about 100m from his house and about 20m from the church. We had around 10 men from the village to come and learn the process and it was catching on very well to the way it is done. We were finally able to begin drilling around 3:45 and managed to get down to about 5 feet and hit ROCK!! We were not quite ready for rock at that level. So, we began the pounding of the rock trying to break it up. We made little progress before quitting time but that give us time to stategize on next steps.

We then had our first opportunity for some us to enjoy a time of worship and praise with the people and what a blessing it was. Caleb, our Water4 leader, blessed with great words and the people loved it. He says his not a preacher but he didn't prove that tonight. Oh, it was such a joy to experience the day. Many of us were very emotional as we talked through the events.

Everyone is doing just fine physically and we appreciate the prayers for good health. Please keep them coming.

Here are couple of things you can be praying specifically for:

Still need to find and get the gravel/rock that we need.
For all the team members that their spirits will remain high and have plenty of energy
For the villagers that are helping and learning the process.

God Bless you!