The Waller’s October Update

Sunday morning here I watched the 40 year old big, high-rise dorm at the University be demolished. It was blown up and fell down. An old land mark on the plains here is gone for good. It was exciting as the explosive charges shook the ground and then the building fell down in almost the blink of an eye. Amazing how something so big and massive can come tumbling down so quick. This was a big building and I bet the construction of it occupied the architects and builders lives for a long time, maybe many years and now it is gone. A pile of rubble to be removed and scattered around dumps somewhere. All gone. All gone.

I like to build things and thought to myself, all the hard work that went into that huge building is now just a heap of rubble. Made me think of what will truly last on this earth. Well, nothing, eventually nothing. If my understanding is right, the most current model of the universe has it just simply expanding forever and ever and eventually everything will just fly apart, with the final atoms being further apart from each other than the universe is large today. Not much to look forward to. At the end, without some kind of intervention, some saving plan, it will all just be “ashes, ashes, we all fall down”.

I saw this demolition before church and it was fitting I think and going to church gave me some comfort. Jesus announced the start of a new Kingdom that he said wouldn’t just fall down and be scattered away. He said it would endure forever. And he also invited us into that Kingdom. A lasting Kingdom, where the acts of kindness and love and goodness and sacrifice that belong to that kingdom somehow won’t collapse and be blown away and scattered. So anyway as the world seems to be coming apart at the seams, things collapsing, I’ll think of that big old high rise dorm falling down, and what Jesus said about his Kingdom. It comforts me somehow, and I’ll be glad I have church to go to on Sundays.

Below are a few pics of current WFA activities to pray for:

· I will be headed back to Bolivia on 10th of November.

· Our trial well at WHRI in Waco week before last (where they give Ag missions training) was a big success.

· Joe is headed to Uganda on the the 10th from Addis to help a partner start drilling trials in the war torn North.

· Rob is doing language study in Addis and soon to start working back in the village of Gora.

· Our guys in Bolivia just started a ‘water club” with 13 families who are drilling 13 family wells together, and two more clubs lined out after that.

· Our little church in San Julian just had revival and many decisions Cayo says.

· Jeremy and I are also working on a new type of drilling rig here in San Angelo and Sara is putting together training material and info for us. We have many requests to train folks here and are looking for a small farm here in San Angelo where to do it and where to house new interns. I get emails almost daily of folks interested in thorough training. Pray for us as we seek a place where we can train and put folks up long term while training.

In Bolivia I will be helping with the clubs and helping line out Teo and Sergio to make and install more windmills and fishponds with families and having fellowship with the church. Then end of December off to Ethiopia.

Finally Teo’s little boy is fine now and out of the danger and out of the hospital. Thanks for praying for him. Cayo just wrote that his sister was run over by a truck and the doctor wanting to amputate her leg. Wow always a crisis it seems. They have no money of course so the project is helping. Marta is her name. Please say a prayer for her and also remember my friend John Yates in the UK. (John is our friend who is fighting cancer and with his wife Kath has been leading drilling teams to Zambia in Africa.)

Thanks for praying for us, we do live on your payers. Also hey I turned 51 so officially I am in my 50s. Plus I am an abuelito! Marcy had a beautiful baby girl. (see below)

Terry

A few pics of latest wells and WFA activities below!

WHRI (World Hunger Reilef Inc) Interns and Kris Hew pull the rope in Waco.

Kathy and I met at WHRI as interns years ago. We hope to maybe do a special low cost water orientation for WHRI interns later on. We had to see if we could drill a good well there first. We did! 5 gpm + easy hand pumping. Thanks WHRI.

Amber a WHRI intern pumps new family well demo. 5 gallons/minute easy pumping.

Some of the crew that helped! Kris Hiew (kneeling by me) former WFA intern was a great help.

New WFA well club in Bolivia finishes first well. They will do 13 wells! We teach the families to drill for themselves!

Well just finished. Notice man in blue tasting the water to see if it is sweet or not. It was sweet water. Salty water is a big problem in this area.

WFA also teach families in the club to make and maintain their own pumps. Sergio test a new family pump.

These are three inch wells 75 feet deep and later we hope families can put windmills or motor pumps on them for cattle and irrigation, and fishponds. Famiily owned wells not only give water but bring families out of poverty! 13 families will have wells like this one in this one club alone. Right now we have two more clubs lined up after this. Not a lot but at least 13 families will have a bit better life. WFA lends a drilling rig, teaches families to use it, helps drill the first wells, and helps buy some of the material. Then the families do the rest. Families pay for most of the raw materials and do their own work, so they truly own the whole process. The families will place their own home made pump leaver made of hard wood.

I am an abuelito! Our first little grandbaby, Odette Elizabeth Vazquez de Waller, Marcy and Victor’s baby girl. Born week before last in Ft. Worth. What a blessing. God is so good.

Thanks so much for praying for us through the years and for supporting and praying for WFA.

Sincerely,

Terry and Kathy

“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

Tags: Bolivia, Missions, Water Wells