The Foundation

After a few weeks delay by the Health Department we are now allowed to continue construction on the Health Center. This week we have been pouring the foundation and the line columns (the ones not on a corner). Hard to capture in a picture.

This week many of us have been sick. Robert, my immediate boss, a few workers and myself have missed a few days due to colds and fevers. Marti Johnson (TTW staff) came up this week and seems to have contracted Malaria. Moses daughter Priscila (photo) also has malaria. Please keep us in your prayers.

My relationships are growing with Opiyo, Kilama, Okello and Inyansio. To me they aren't "locals" of ministry opportunities but people that God loves dearly. As we grow closer they let me in to their lives and homes. I was utterly shocked to see where some of them (or rather their wises and children) gather their water.

It really is amazing. Okello Moses explains to me how the keep the water source 'clean', uncontaminated that is. He took me there to see his sugar cane crop. While we were there we spent some time cutting down branches to block to water source from cows that roam freely through the country side. This spring is dammed off to make it deep, but once a week is opened to let the water run out and refill to keep the spring fresh. To me it just looked like a hole in the ground, but to them it is a source of life. I've never had an appreciation for CLEAN running water as I do now.