LEA - Orphanage Well Project Update

The week before three of the Lea Well team plus my daughter Elizabeth (Mark Croskrey, David Slatter, and me) were due to arrive at Dongobesh to help LEA orphanage/school complete the installation of their solar power well project; we received word from LEA staff member, Peter Lulu, that the well drilling company, Majitech, had drilled down to 80 meters without having reached water yet.  Peter posted the following photo on Facebook, with a call for prayer.

The morning after this was posted, during my morning Bible reading, I "happened" to be reading Numbers 20; and the passage concerning God bringing water from the rock popped off the page. I sent a message to the well team, and two adult Sunday school classes at our church to pray that the Lord would bring water, like He did for the children of Jacob while in the desert, on their journey from Egypt to Israel. 

By the time we reached LEA, water had been reached at about 91 meters down. The quantity and flow rate weren't sufficient enough to install the solar powered pump with 10,000 liter tank like we had hoped; but it was enough to provide clean, fresh, safe water to this orphanage, and town that desperately needed it.

LEA and town are thrilled to have the $18K manual pump version which will have a plaque with John 4:13 next to the well. $21K was raised, enough for the well, and $3K will go for funding the new dormitory which we designed last year.  Please keep LEA in your prayers, that the Lord would supply enough funds for the new dormitory/kitchen facility. At the end of our visit to Tanzania, we received a call from Martin Tango, the head of LEA, that they were given the land next to the school that we had prayed about the week before for their new dormitory to be built. 

Majitech rep, Mark, Martin, David, Elizabeth praying for clean water

Martin is flying to the Czech Republic soon to speak with The Church there about what the Lord is doing at LEA; believers in this country have been the primary supporters and sponsors for LEA orphanage to this point in time.  Please pray that the Lord give Martin the words to say, and that He raises the funds necessary for the new dorms.  Their living conditions are not good (about 270 children sleeping four per bunk bed in rented buildings far from the school). 

staff and students at evening worship

The two BIG praises we were able to participate with regarding LEA was successfully reaching water and installation of a well; and being able to obtain the land adjacent to the school for the new dorm (the owner had repeatedly denied this land to the school in the past).

Evangelist and very dear friend Musa Njagamba with the children of LEA; they love Musa