This is an EMERGENCY!

Dishwashers, hot water heaters, air conditioning units…stuff like that goes out, we get bummed, but we find ways to fix them or replace them because they are in our can’t-live-without-necessities category. 

Here’s the deal.  Pastor Nahum doesn’t own a dish washer, hot water heater or air conditioning unit but the water well that so richly blesses his orphans, family, and church has a problem that needs to be addressed IMMEDIATELY.  

It's an urgent matter when your life giving water supply is unexpectedly cut off.  We have an emergency here.  

So what’s the problem and how did this happen?  

The rainy season has hit hard in Mirebalais.  They are experiencing torrential downpours every evening.  This excessive amount of rain has wreaked havoc on Pastor Nahum’s water well causing the dirt and flood waters to leak into his clean water source.  Pastor Nahum met with his boss about this yesterday.  With concrete and iron they can build a protective lining to prevent the flood waters and ground dirt from leaking into his well.  This will cost $600 US dollars and take about a week to complete the work.  They can’t use their well until the work is finished so Pastor Nahum’s children and orphans are back to the tedious labor of gathering their water in buckets from far away springs.  Oh my heart...the pain of this reality cuts deep as I listened to Pastor Nahum helplessly explain the water emergency he is facing.  His voice was deflated.  It's been a while since I've seen him this discouraged.  With the rainy season not letting up anytime soon these repairs have to be done NOW but he doesn’t have the $600 needed to start the work.    

If you have followed the journey of Pastor Nahum and the plight of his orphans then you know what beautiful yet agonizing lives they live.  Today I am speaking out for Pastor Nahum and asking for YOU to respond.  We can’t think to ourselves that someone else will take care of this problem or that what we have to give is too small to make a real difference.  Whatever amount you can chip in towards the $600 he needs to get his well repaired will be an investment in something eternal.  YOU can become an answer to their prayers.  Our Haitian sisters and brothers are crying out for help.  Let’s lift this heavy burden from them and give God every ounce of glory by responding to them TOGETHER.  Let’s act like this is our own emergency and act NOW! 

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“He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done.”  Proverbs 19:17