I am home from Bolivia and wanted to share some parting pictures and thoughts. Sometimes I get tired and wonder if doing this WFA stuff is really worth doing. I am in my 50s now and the only thing I know how to do is bang a hole in the ground. Seems silly sometimes. Then I go to Bolivia for a couple of months and remember why we are doing all this stuff. I absolutely have the best job in the world. It was a wonderful time and just incredibly fruitful. 70 wells since May in Bolivia. Wow. That is 70 families with good deep family homestead water wells from confined aquifers. Their water problems are over. I bet we do over 100 wells in Bolivia this year.

Our WFA crew, Teo, Sergio, Elias and Chelo are busy as can be training very poor families to drill these water wells. It is incredibly hard work, with vehicle breakdowns, bad weather (we froze for part of the trip), tool failures, constant stress, and the demand just grows and grows it seems. When I left, 4 water clubs were working at the same time. We go out with families and help them drill their first two wells and then the families continue drilling on their own. Our guys work till sometimes late at night helping families learn to drill. The wells are deep, usually in the 100-200 feet deep range. And each well can fail up to the very end. It is nerve racking and hard work every time.

It is very dry in Bolivia and the families were all relieved to have a well. Ponds are drying up and families don’t know what they will do to water their livestock. We had one crew drill 45 meters in one day and another crew working till 2 am. We stuck Rick and Sergio out with families who were working in freezing rainy weather. All drilling deep wells of 50- 60 meters deep. The families Rick and Sergio were working with were all hauling water to their little farms and desperate for water. I don’t know how they do it. To get to share the poor’s physical and spiritual sufferings and be able to offer something substantive that helps their struggle is a joy. Thank you all for allowing us to do this kind of work. Now the families have their own wells.

What a joy it is to get to be involved and teach families to solve permanently their own water problem. A family well can make all the difference. Don Leandro, a friend who got a well years ago and one of our little windmills, came by one day to finally change out a bolt on his plastic pump (10 years) and said he had sent two kids to college on his well and little windmill, raising a little herd of cattle. He was super thankful. That is the power of empowering families to help themselves with the right tools that they can afford. Leandro is ready to retire now. He is fixed up and in good shape. Rewarding to see how he is doing.

All the families that get a personal well have new possibilities for prosperity. One of the clubs was in a community of Guarani indigenous folks. They have always been so poor and it was a joy to get to work with them. We will be helping families do well clubs while the dry season lasts and then help families get windmills. All the families that have them are thrilled with their windmills and the combination of well and windmill provides a path out of poverty for these families. What a great trip.

We are acutely aware that all of you who pray for us and support WFA make all of this possible. Being able to focus on the needs of the poor and develop good “poor user friendly” tools through the years has made a lot of difference to a lot of folks and it is you all who have made it possible. Thank you so much!

WFA is also growing and multiplying our impact in other areas. We are poised to start new programs in several countries. We trained Bolivar from our partner ministry (SIFAT) who is drilling in a very remote part of Bolivia We trained Rick Gregory who we hope to send along with his wife, Sherry, to Uganda and also started a partnership with some latino missionary volunteers in Bolivia to send as Bible story tellers out with some of the water clubs. They pull the rope and help families drill and offer to tell Bible Stories at night. Hard working kids. We hope to figure out how to work more with them. We are also working on sending Allan to Pakistan to help a good group start a WFA type program there.

We have a packed overflowing course in a couple of weeks here in Texas. We are working on getting our own training farm in Paint Rock to offer more courses and also be able to offer thorough training for our own people and to be able to continue research and development of better tools and technology for the poor (We just developed a new rock bit for example). The demand for courses just keeps growing too. For the upcoming course in Septmeber we have:

1. Jean-Pierre Yumpia – Congo

2. Russ Qualls – hydrology professor Idaho – 11 kids 4 adopted Ethiopians

3. Johnathan Bridges – Joe’s missionary friend from Ethiopia – here on furlough

4. Adam Abramson – from Israel

5. Tyozenda Gberikon – Retired Nigerian Army Officer

6. Nguket Nuvala – Cameroon – lives in Dallas has something to do w/ UT will be returning soon to his country.

7. Matt Mbanga – Zimbabwe returning soon to his country.

8. A nurse from Sudan.

Other cool things. We we had Jon and Parker Woodroof (Parker is in above picture pulling the rope) and Parker’s friend Ben with us for a visit in Bolivia and also and earlier Malcolm and his family visited. Parker may do something in Central America. Jon and his family are wonderful WFA supporters and encouragers. They have been to the course and are practicing drilling in their back yard in Tennessee. No telling where they will end up drilling. Malcolm too is a good friend and has worked a bunch in Africa and might do something in Uganda too.

Baptisms.

Our little church is doing great and the day we left baptized three new believers. Sometimes I worry that our little church hasn’t become a big mega church. One day a neighbor we have known a long time who is crippled and struggling wondered into our little services and we prayed with him and he accepted Christ. He said he had been down and discouraged and contemplated suicide. Just being there is the most important things sometimes.

I flew out Sunday night but on that Sunday morning it was wonderful to be at Felipe’s baptism along with Teodora, an elderly Quechua lady, and also Lucia, a young mother who recently accepted Christ and who is praying for her husband.

What a joy to see the little congregation be a touch stone for eternal things and see those the world thinks not much of, come into a small but caring family of believers where they are loved and valued. Felipe’s baptism, going down into the water on crutches, depending on others to be layed down in the water, was one of the most moving things I have ever witnessed. What a picture of all of us really. Crippled and sick, and dying and surrendering and then being raised with Christ. What a picture, What a wonderful faith we have! I couldn’t help but cry like a baby at the Baptism. His determination to be baptized was amazing. Praise God that he loves us and that there is faith, hope, and love even for the poorest of the poor. Praise God!

Please pray for Cayo and Neli and for Amalia and all our church folks that they be salt and light for all the folks in our neighborhood like Felipe and Lucia and Teodora. Spiritual needs are everywhere. Rob is in Seminary this semester preparing to minister to those needs and will be headed back to Ethiopia to be with Joe in January for more drilling. We have our place bought out close to the villages. And we are excited about partner offers with other missions that want us to train their people. The world is hurting out there and the needs so great, both spiritually and physically. Pray we can help as many as possible and make good partnerships to share the Gospel in both word and deed.

Thank you all so much for supporting and praying for WFA.

These are our big prayer requests:

For Jeremy and Sara as they get ready to have their first baby! They have been such a blessing and are looking to go with another group to the Middle East in January. We will miss them terribly but know God has them right where he wants them! I believe Jeremy will be teaching in a school and Sara teaching English. From when they first married they have felt a strong call to the Arabic Middle East. We wish them well but will miss them. They will be with us till January though so we will get to see the baby! Pray we can replace them!

For Teo and Sergio and Elias and Chelo as they continue train families to drill wells in Bolivia. I bet in Bolivia WFA clubs will make more than 100 wells this year. Paul reports over one hundred wells in Nicragua this year in WFA type clubs done by a group there. Pray we can continue to help people have abundant water and move out of grinding poverty. WE need to expand in Bolivia, pray we can find a way to expand more and reach more families. I read today in the Bolivian paper that hundreds of villages are without water due to the prolonged dry season. Pray we can increase our ministry in Bolivia and that we have the resources to do it.

For Cayo and Neli and Amalia and the church in San Julian and for new believers, Felipe, Teodora, and Lucia.

For the upcoming WFA course in San Angelo at the Duncan Ranch.

For Rick and Sherry as they prepare to go to Uganda to help us start a WFA program with our partners Global Care. Rick and Sherry are our age and have committed the rest of their lives to helping the poor and dispossessed. Sherry is a nurse and Rick has studied Animal Science and has a masters in rural development. Great folks and they are super excited about serving with WFA. They have served in Uganda and Sudan. Rick was with me the whole time in Bolivia and says he learned a ton. He was amazed at the constant stream of families coming by to find our how to start a water club. He was a trooper and worked hard.

For Ethiopia and Joe and Rob, Rob in seminary, and Joe as he visits us here and heads back to Ethiopia later in the Fall. (Joe came home for Cheryl’s funeral and so we are having him out to the course to help us). Ethiopia is in rainy season now. Drilling will start back soon though. Pray for Rob and Joe as they continue to learn Oromo and work with families and drill more and more wells with them. We have our own little place now out in the country and tons of work to do. Rob and Joe both are amazing. Pray for them.

For Pakistan and for Allan De Laurel. We have a deal in the works to possibly send Allan to help a partner get started in Pakistan. This could be dangerous if it happens but we will be partnering with a group that has a long term presence and knows what to do. Allan has served with us in Bolivia and did test drilling in Nicaragua and in Dominican Republic for us. The suffering in Pakistan is great right now. God loves the Pakistanis.

For Bolivar our SIFAT partner who is drilling in Xiamas. Xiamas is way out in the middle of no where in Bolivia but people need water. Our partner, SIFAT (Servants in Faith and Technology) has a boarding home for kids that live in logging camps and out in areas with no schools. We trained their man Bolivar in Bolivia about a year ago and he is now drilling in Xiamas. We had him with us recently for two weeks for further training. Bolivar is an Ecuadorian and we hope to someday start a program there too one day, maybe with SIFAT. Bolivar is a great Christian guy, doing great work.

Teofilo, Bolivar, Cayo, Rick, myself, Chelo, Amalia and Bebo invited to a “churazco” (bbq) by a water club to celebrate their completions of 8 new wells. A great time of fellowship, singing and sharing the Gospel. These are the type of folks helped by your prayers and generosity. I just love them all.

Water club just finishing a well. One of 70 plus so far this year. The bible story telling volunteers pulled the rope till 2 am helping them.

For WFA and our efforts to get our own well drilling training camp, and farm. Pray God would provide the way and means if it is his will. We feel this will help us share with many more and help us train and recruit those who feel called to serve the poorest of the poor with WFA. The need around the world is huge and staggering. We have several big mission agency groups wanting to train their people. We may just have enough funds via some special gifts and pledges to buy a great property in nearby Paint Rock Texas on the Concho River. If you know anyone who would like to help us train a lot more people to help the poorest of the poor do share with them what we are doing. Jeremy and I have drilled test wells and the place looks great for what we need. We are super excited but still need to raise more funds.

For Dave, a WFA course grad who recently drilled in the Gambia and would like us to partner with him there somehow. What we need is more committed folks like Rick and Sherry. Pray we can find them and train them for missions like the Gambia.

Once we get a training farm we will need folks ready to be trained and sacrifice and go live incarnationally with the poorest of the poor for years at a time and be salt and light, working and living side by side out in the middle of no where. If you know anyone like that. Tell them about us. We have dozens of requests from all over the world to start WFA type ministries. What we will need once we get a training facility are lots more Joes and Robs and Rick and Sherys. Pray God hooks us up with just the right folks to train and send as WFA volunteers for the poor.

For James, who we hope will be our new intern starting with us in April and who is a Kenyan MK and would like to start a WFA type program someday in Kenya. We are looking forward to James coming on with us. Be praying now for James.

For the First Baptist Arlington group who trained with us last course. They are practicing and getting ready to drill in Africa. They minister in Niger and Sierra Leon.

And finally please pray for and Lucia, Teodora and Felipe.

One final little thought. As you are reading this our gang in Bolivia is probably teaching a family to drill as you read this. Chelo, the young man above in the yellow shirt works with us and had a car wreck while I was there. He wasn’t hurt but could have been hurt so easily. We really do count on your prayers for the entire WFA gang that God watch over them while they work. Do keep us in your prayers! Chelo is Amalia’s son and grew up with us in San Julian. He is like another son to me and it was scary!

Thanks so much for making all this happen! WFA isn’t on any budget anywhere and we work via your prayers and support and the offerings of partner churches. Thanks so much to all of you!

Terry

Below are a few of the of the 70 plus wells drilled since May,

Well this isn’t a well, but a “lagarto” in a pond that we passed everyday. I tried to rope him everyday but never could! I guess I am not a gator whisperer. I am just glad we didn’t decide to baptize in that pond. He was 8 feet long.

Ok. This isn’t a well either, but I liked the picture. This is Ben who visited with Parker, holding “Bebo” Yoli’s son, who Amalia is raising.

Thanks again for praying for us!

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.” C.S. Lewis

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Here are a few more from Bolivia. Also had two requests for help today, one from Nicaragua and one from Mexico. They just keep coming. I talked to Teo and he says they have four rigs with four well clubs working right now in four communities. Fun stuff! This is kind of my dream to be able to sit in the air conditioning and our guys send me pictures of all the wells they are doing. Jeremy and I will be working in the heat tomorrow though, can’t sit in the air conditioning too long! Neat to see families drilling their own really deep well with the little drilling rig too. Thanks for praying for WFA.

Many of you responded to the note from Sybil. What faith! Thanks so much for praying for her. I hope someday I have half her courage. Also forgive me for sending the previous report twice. Something happened on the server. Hope you just get this one once. Thanks!

Sincerely,

Terry

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.” C.S. Lewis

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For info on Water For All’s international work visit, www.waterforallinternational.org or email terry@southlandbaptist.org

Wanted to share with you some of the latest wells and WFA happenings.

We just had a great drilling class to teach folks our drilling method who are headed overseas to places like Kenya and Niger and Sierra Leon. Then Gary Mitchell from Idaho who we taught to build and supply our bits for us, spent the week after the course with Jeremy and I working and helping us do some test drilling on a hole. Right at the end of the course I got a batch of photos from our water clubs working in Bolivia and Ethiopia. Pretty fun to be teaching folks to drill and get photos of wells being drilled all over at the same time. At the same time I also received notes from former course attendees who are drilling in Uganda and another soon to be drilling in the Gambia. This is getting fun!

See below and thanks for praying for us.

We have three clubs working in Bolivia simultaneously right now, with requests backed up. Cayo our pastor who helps there seems really pumped and excited about the project. Thanks for praying for him. He says we will probably do 70 wells there this year. 17 wells so in three communities. It is going to be a busy well drilling season. I head back to Bolivia in July and August to help plus to train Rick and Malcomb and John. It gets crazy with so many clubs working and Teo and crew will need help to keep families supplied with materials and all the drill rigs pounding away. Plus Bolivar who we trained from SIFAT has arrived in Xiamas and is working in villages there. These families water problems are now solved for good! And you just wouldn’t believe how far out in the middle of nowhere these wells are. Really fun stuff to see our WFA crew of 3 working so well and helping so many families. And these are deep wells, some in the 200 ft range. We have the motorized rig working in club style in one club and manual rigs working in the others. The families are getting along fine with the motorizied rig.

A bolivian mom pumps her brand new well. It is just finished and will clean up fine.

Joe just sent me fotos of the 19th, 20th,21st, and 22nd wells he and Rob and Ofella and families have done in Ethiopia this year around Gora. He also says Yared who he trained earlier continues to drill in another area. This is the fun part when you train the poor to do their own work and simultaneously in several different countries rural families themselves are drilling away making wells. This is why WFA exists! Great fun. One becomes a cheerleader going around the jungle slapping folks on the back for doing a good job. They love it and I love it too.

Thank you so much for praying for us and helping us reach families like these. They deserve to have their own water well. Every rural family does! It is a privilege to get to work with families like these. Please keep Joe and Rob and Ofela in your prayers. The work is really hard. Joe and Rob are just knocking a home run. Pray God will send us more young people like this willing to give up an easy life and go to serve in the hard places in Jesus’ name. Pray for Ofela and the little church in Gora.

Below are pics of our recent missionary training.

We are still working on figuring out how to have a permanent training place for WFA missionaries and have more courses like the above. We have a new young man, James, a Kenyan MK coming on with us in the Fall. (Kneeling in white shirt next to me in the photo.) Great young man who has already been back to Africa in the hardest of places, like Sudan. We also teach how to make a simple slow sand filter at the course and James told us he recently was in an area where families were forced to drink from a mud hole in a river along with cattle etc and this filter would have saved lives. We are really looking forward to having James with us for more training and then to figure out how to send him to Africa. Be praying for us and James. To train young men like James who is committed to going off to live with and help the poorest of the poor is why we are wanting our own little training farm. At this course we had also had a team of guys from First Baptist Arlington who are working in Sierra Leon and Niger. Also a great family from Tennessee. A great group of folks that just left us amazed. Jon will also be going for more training in Bolivia. We had great hard work and great fellowship too. God’s Kingdom is absolutely wonderful!

Thanks for praying for us! We have another course with JBU in June in Oklahoma/Arkansas and then I head back to Bolivia.

Pray my old body holds out. I am 51 now and after drilling class last week was complaining of aches and pains to our visitor Gary. We had been pounding through rock all week with Jeremy. Gary is a bit older than I but tough as nails, and I noticed he too was limping and bent over and nursing various joints. He said , “Well Terry, getting old just ain’t for sissies no matter what you do”. It sure isn’t! So I quit complaining. So pray we won’t be sissies and keep on doing this. I guess life means aches and pains no matter what, so might as well get them doing this stuff. Seems funny how sometimes the better things get, (things are wonderful with WFA right now with so many clubs working and classes etc.) the more aches and pains! But these are sure good aches and pains and we are super thankful to have them and to get to do this kind of work and want to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for supporting and praying for Water for All! We really do live on your prayers!

Again thanks for praying for Cayo, he seems much encouraged.

Sincerely,

Terry Waller

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.” C.S. Lewis

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For info on Water For All’s international work visit, www.waterforallinternational.org or email terry@southlandbaptist.org

Here is a note from Joe our WFA coordinator in Ethiopia. He and Rob are doing great work. Jason is home and better. Thanks for praying.   Now pray he gets well enough to go back. We miss him.

I am on my way to Texas. I had to walk through a road block in Pailon this morning but made it. Wasn’t too long a walk. I would have walked miles I am ready to see my family!

We had a great service baptizing yesterday. Plus Santos called saying they had drilled another well! That is well number 4 for that club and a new club starting tomorrow. Teo and the club already have their material bought. I had hope Rufino our neighbor who had been in jail with lots of problems was going to get baptized too. He didn’t pray for him though. Yoli, Amalia’s daughter, was baptized! Plus some other youth. God is very very good. Pray for Cayo our pastor that he stays fresh and friendly and inspired. Pastoring is hard! The Hope Bolivia women are doing great too, at a fair this week developing local markets. They are excited and say thanks.

We do live on your prayers!

Terry

Third well in Yotau club finished Wednesday. New club starting in the morning of 10 families. Santos wrote and said the club has finished their 4th well.

Yoli being baptized. She gave her life to Christ. This is Amalia’s daughter. Amalia is raising her little boy, Bebo, who is a cutie!

Thanks for praying for us. We have courses in Texas and Oklahoma in May and June then back to Bolivia in July. Lots of families lined up for well driling. We are workng in a whole new area. Please keep praying for us. Kathy’s Mom is so pray for Kathy too.

Ethiopia update 26 april 2010

A few pics from WFA stuff in Bolivia. Thanks for praying for us and the little church here. Pray especially for Cayo our pastor. He seems a bit tired. Pray I can be a shot in the arm for him. Pray for our well drilling. Guy came by today with a request. 50 families need wells. They are drinking from the river. We live on your prayers.

Terry

Rice farmed with our rig, sprayer, tractor and planter.

Our fish ponds. We have four other families raising these two now with windmills and all.

Harvest, each worth $3 plus. 2 legged alligators ate most of the harvest. Out of 800 only 200 and something that we harvested. The local two legged alligator predators got the rest. We are learning. You have to put a fence around your pond, one for four legged alligators and one for two legged. We heard gossip at the motor cycle taxi stop that everyone in the world has been fishing in our ponds! I hope they enjoyed themselves!

Pacu, note the “people teeth”

Where we were drilling last week.

An old cane mill in the middle of nowhere.

Drilling away

Couple of new wells

Very marginal wells, families decided to drill on the flats next week.

Great people though, our host in Yotau. One of the first outsiders to live in Yotau 20 years ago when it was still all Guarayo people. Stout homesteaders and good folks.

Good bye beautiful hill country of the Chiquitania.  Back to the flats of San Julian.

All going so well with WFA that we can’t hardly stand it. Attached an update from Rob in Ethiopia. I think you will like it. Great photos of wells and windmills and Ethiopia. Joe, Rob and Jason knocking home run. It is possible to really work and live side by side with the poorest of the poor and make an impact as you can see from Rob’s pictures. Note the gardens being irrigated by the wells and windmills in the pictures. We have the chance to make a huge impact in this area. Thanks for standing with us and praying for us. Pray for Jason who is new and has been really sick. He is helping us make the windmills in Ethiopia. Jason is a great guy and fruit from our U.S.A classes. Also got word a new Christian group is drilling with our method in the Chaco of Argentina. Joe also finished technical drawings of our windmill, and Jon who attended our last class is making a cool custom phone app for our windmill caluclulations that need to be done in the field. Malcolm brought us a drilling rig last week and we built another one and are doing drilling trials and experiments in San Angelo. I go to Bolivia next week. Life rushes buy way too fast. We have a new couple that may be going with us to Uganda. He will go with me to Bolivia in July. Course in May is filling fast. All is just going so well for WFA. Pray for us as we seek to lease/purchase a little farm where we can put new folks through long term training. Pray for Rob, Joe and Jason as they learn more language and Cayo and Teo in Bolivia and for me to as I travel.

Rob March update

Sincerely,

Terry

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.” C.S. Lewis

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For info on Water For All’s international work visit, www.waterforallinternational.org or email terry@southlandbaptist.org

for games, an egg hunt and a hot dog lunch.

You know I miss terribly being on the field full time. I mourn for it sometimes. I love growing WFA and giving courses but really miss being with the poor daily. But it all becomes worth it when I get emails from our WFA programs in Bolivia and Ethiopia running all by themselves without me and expanding and when our drilling course here fills up with folks headed to different places overseas and my inbox is filled with requests from all over. Makes me realize I am probably better used here and traveling and encouraging and growing WFA than doing the work myself and that God has many resources. We have great news from the field again today since my last note. 4 new WFA family wells below in Ethiopia, drilled by the poor themselves (with Rob’s help), plus some rice fields planted in Bolivia with our little tractorcito and zero till seeder, and windmills being made in Ethiopia! We hope to help 10 families or so get windmills as a pilot program. Rob and Joe and Jason are just knocking a home run in Ethiopia. Pray for them. Plus other great news, Sara and Jeremy are EXPECTING! Pray for Sara as she is on bed rest for a week. Also pray for our drilling course this coming week training missionaries headed to Africa and India. Also pray for Gary a WFA trained guy and great friend drilling right now in Kenya. Bolivia is doing great, helping families get windmills, and plant rice and raise fish and drill wells. The church is growing too. I can’t wait to see them in April. Also pray as we try and figure out how to buy a little farm in San Angelo where we can multiply our selves many times over and train many others to go too and start WFA type programs. If we get the farm we can also give courses on windmills, tractorcitos, water well drilling, cross cultural preparation, everything! Thanks so much for praying for us. Also Kathy is back and her mom some better. Thanks for praying for Kathy. Drilling Course next week and then I head to Bolivia April 5th. We live on your prayers! Joe says we just got a manufacturer’s license for the windmills and Rob is “jabbering away in Oromo”! Yea! What a great privilege to get to help the poorest of the poor and share the Gospel and see young people like Joe and Rob and Jason and Cayo and Teo and Elias and Jeremy and Sara carry it on.

Enjoy the photos below, your prayers and support at work!!!

Rob reports they are now helping folks in the neighboring village drill family wells. These are Rob and Joe and Jason’s Gora neighbors. Notice the elderly man next to the well. He has elephantitis in his right foot. The poor face many sorrows as we all do. Pray for Rob and Joe and Jason as they learn the language and culture. Stress is great dealing with extreme poverty daily. Pray they have soft melted hearts that overflow with God’s love for the poor. Pray their joy in the Lord would overflow and they be a blessing. I know from experience they need your prayers daily.

Family windmills in production for our pilot program.

Campesino rice field planted with our little tractorcito made in village shop in Bolivia. Someday we’ll make these too in Ethiopia.

Sunday school kids in San Julian.

Hope Bolivia Ladies. These are the ladies who make the scarves all dressed up on a recent outing. This club has brought joy and meaning and income to many very poor Bolivian ladies and their families and children.

Sincerely,

Terry

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.” C.S. Lewis

Water For All/Agua Para Todos

For info on Water For All’s international work visit, www.waterforallinternational.org or email terry@southlandbaptist.org.

I am back in Texas for a bit and wanted to share some of our activities and photos of 4 more family wells in Ethiopia just done and one in Uganda. Pray for Rob and families as Rob is staying out in Gora with families helping them drill wells. Rob is just knocking a home run helping families drill as he learns Oromo. Also pray for Jason and Joe as they make some family windmills for testing with families. This is our dream to see as many poor families as we can with a well and someday a windmill too. We hope to start a well drilling movement! Joe and Jason are also busy setting up a permanent training and demo farm out in the area. We will soon have our very own big round mud house! Teo and crew in Bolivia are making windmills for more families to have windmills and fish ponds. Jeremy and Sara and I are here getting ready for a small training class in March. We are building a new drilling rig right now and in a couple of weeks will be doing a mini training course in California of all places for some guys who came to our course. They want to go to Africa and want a refresher and drill a trial well. They are paying for expenses so we will go. (It will be fun too as I have never been to California.)

I’ll head to Bolivia in April for a quick trip to encourage our team there and back here in May for another training course. Then back to Bolivia in July and August for the drilling season. We are also looking for ways to raise money for a training farm.

We have found a little place, 40 acres close to San Angelo. Pray for us about that. To really replicate our selves we need to figure out how we can host trainees for several months at a whack and doing really thorough training. Jeremy and Sara need a place to live and if we get a small farm we can really start recruiting young people who feel called to this kind of ministry. I would love to have 20 or 30 Joes and Robs out in Africa serving the poor. Currently we have six requests from five countries where we could place well trained committed young people to help train local people to drill. All we need is the trained young people and for that we need a training farm. Pray for that with us. We need a place where we can give serous young people a sense of Christian community and good cross cultural orientation and quality basic well drilling and rural development agricultural training. We want to teach all we do, well drilling, windmill making, tractorcito making, animal traction etc, everything that could help very poor rural families. A WFA boot camp in Texas is just what we need, to share our skills with others.

In Uganda the team we trained just finished their second well and trials are continuing. It is tough drilling there and the team needs someone to be with them and encourage them. More trial needs to be done. There is so much need. Pray God would send us just the right kind of folks who feel called to go and serve, and that we can figure out how to buy a training camp to give good quality training so that we can respond to needs like this.

Finally also pray for Kathy and her mom. Kathy has been out in Florida the last week to be with her mom Peggy Webb who is very frail with diabetes and heart failure. She was hospitalized and just home and Kathy and her sister are figuring out how to care for Peggy. I have been Mr. Mom for a week or so and also doing my normal WFA stuff. We are hoping Kathy maybe gets to come home Sunday or Monday. Being Mr. Mom has really be fun, but boy I don’t know how Moms do it. Soccer games, ear aches, DISHES, yikes!

Thanks for praying for us and supporting WFA! We live on your prayers!

Rob at Urgeecha’s new well. Rob is the one out being a good neighbor helping families get a well.

Fitalet and her kids with her new well. (She is a widow.)

Guttama and family with their new well.

Urgegeecha’s family

Guulumaa and family with their finished well.

The Global Care crew we just worked with in Uganda finished the second well! A low flow well but they did find water so far in three holes. The trials will continue. Pray for us and Global Care. The water need as it is all over Africa is just incredible in this area. Pray this partnership goes well and one day we can learn to drill family wells as in Ethiopia. In this area there is 20 feet of rock right at the surface. Makes drilling tough but they did it!

Sincerely,

Terry

P.S. Also pray for Gary Mitchell our good WFA friend who trained with us a couple of years ago, is headed to Kenya to do trials in a desperately poor area of Kenya. He will be leaving Feb. 28th. Sara and Jeremy did a refresher training for him in Kenya this last year and he and local guys drilled two good wells. He will be helping a missionary this trip that lives way in the bush in an area desperate for water. Good luck Gary! Our state side training is slowly yielding fruit. Malcolm who trained with us last course is headed to the Congo or Uganda. Another from the course is headed to another part of Uganda. Pray for our upcoming course.

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.” C.S. Lewis

Water For All/Agua Para Todos

For info on Water For All’s international work visit, www.waterforallinternational.org or email terry@southlandbaptist.org

Christmas time is rapidly approaching.  Another year has come and gone.  It is so easy to get wrapped up in the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, and forget what is really important.  Through the month of December, the youth are studying the Christmas story.  I have challenged the students to not take this with the attitude of “this is something that I have heard so many times.  There is nothing else that I can learn from this.”  But rather, try to find something that maybe they have forgotten or gain some insights from our leaders that maybe they have never heard before.  My point of telling you is this:  As you go through out the holiday season, please do not forget what it is all about.  We are often consumed with shopping, gift wrapping, and preparing for our families to get here, or traveling to see them, that we do not make time in our lives to stop and thank God for his Son.  He came to die, so I could live.  It is so easy to take that for granted, especially this time of year.  He, who knew no sin, became sin for our sake and carried the cross for our shame.  That is the amazing love of our Lord Jesus Christ, our Immanuel.  Jesus is the reason for Christmas!

Tanner House

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KIDS HOPE USA

The school year is flying by as usual. It is hard to believe that this is our last week of mentoring before the winter break. Please keep our KHUSA students and their families in your prayers over the holiday season. Many of them are facing all types of challenges, but most of all, many of them need to know the love of Christ. Thank you for your great response in showing that love by adopting people from our Angel Tree. By the time you read this most, if not all, of the people will have been adopted. Remember that the gifts need to be returned to the church no later than December 20. Thank you for loving these families,

Gena Blasingame

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Preschool Notes

Howdy, I’m so excited to start serving the family of University Baptist. It is always amazing to be a part of something that God is doing.  I’m humbled by the opportunity that God has given me to work with the preschoolers and their families here at UBC.  It is going to be an amazing adventure.  I can’t wait to see what God is going to do here and to meet the new families he is going to bless us with as we begin to grow. Love in Christ,

Jennifer Page

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University Baptist Church,

I have submitted my resignation as Administrative/ Financial secretary effective December 31, 2009.  It is time to retire and enjoy life outside of work.  I will certainly enjoy doing the things I want to do and spending special time with family and our 10 grandchildren.  Randy and I have lots of plans and many things we need to catch up on.

When I was asked to take the job as secretary at UBC by Ed Floyd in May 1981, I accepted based on it being a temporary position for me.  After 28 years of service  this “temporary” job has ended.

Please know that I love all of you, I have enjoyed working with you and getting to know you better through the years.

My Love,

Jackie Whitlock

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To Our UBC Family,

Thank you for all your thoughts, prayers and cards during the loss of Ruth’s grandpa, Ernest Grubaugh.

Your sister’s in Christ,

Ruth Grubaugh & Annie Heirman

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DEACON OF THE WEEK

December 13, 2009

Kelvin Stapleton

December 20, 2009

Randy Whitlock

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NURSERY HELPERS

12/13/09

AM – Oleane Johnson & Kristin Stapleton

PM – Richard Berry &Kendra House

12/20/09

AM – Sharon Gardner & Erica Henderson

PM - Beverley Jones & Ginger Berry

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December 6, 2009

Attendance

Sunday School……….. 67

Worship……….. 93

Stewardship

Weekly Budget Needs……….. $5,053.71

Receipts 12/06/09……….. $7,180.00