Clean drinking water for the children at the school in Wyamba

It has been a while since we posted to our blog, but we have not been idle. After a week away at our team conference we have returned to Tamale where for the last three weeks we have been busy laying the ground work for our Church planting efforts in the village of Wyamba about 6 miles north. Our most important project in this ground breaking is to win the trust and love of the people. We discovered that the children were drinking unfiltered water from a pond because there is no well or other source of clean water, so we have been hauling about 150 gal. of water from our house to the school every week. In these pictures Mr. Lansah our assistant/ driver and house help is delivering a load of water which is carried by truck in 30 gal. plastic garbage can(clean of course). The older boys are eager to help as you can see. This is a temporary measure. We are going through the school staff and the school's PTA and the village council to petition the water company to connect the school to a water line that runs about 100 yards from the school buildings. When our next volunteer team comes they will help with this project. The village people will contribute the labor needed to dig the ditch to run the water pipe in. We hope to secure a Polly tank for the school for water storage once the pipe is installed. Then the school will have clean water on demand. Clean water for the children will mean fewer health problems. When our volunteer team arrives July 3, 2009 we will begin evangelism and VBS in the village and hold the first Christian worship service ever in Wyamba. We will use oral Bible storying as the main evangelistic method.