February Update from the Wallers

Dear Friends,

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

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