Water Worries, What GOD has prepared us for

Dear all,
I am writing this blog post as an urgent prayer request and as a praise GOD.  Kijabe Mission Station has been beset with a water shortage since early January this year.  As the shortage became acute to most the residents on this station, the station management desired to take action and commissioned a team of technical people representing the different departments serving here. We have the Hospital (about 2000 patients and staff), Rift Valley Academy (about 1000 students and staff), Kijabe boys and Kijabe Girls High Schools (1200 students each), Moffat Bible College (about 400 students and staff) and the community (about another 2000 people).  In April our team (9 people) started looking at short term and long term actions necessary to get us out of this water shortage and prevent it from happening again.  We provided our findings to the Kijabe Station Board (run by Africa Inland Church) last week and they accepted all of our recommendations to move forward and start fixing the problem.  Well, we have had an unprecedented amount of rain over the past 42 consecutive days and this morning it finally took its toll.  Landslides in the area damaged one of our main water supplies.  This supply represents about 40% of our water coming into Kijabe. So, the problem is now fiercely worse.  In fact, it is the spring that was founded by Engineering Ministries International about 12 years ago.  We met today and realized that even though we are in a serious water crisis, our planning and actions are not neccessarily a crisis because our team had already done the lions share of the work of coming up with solutions.  GOD was preparing our team for what we now face.  We now realize that we will need to be extremely aggressive with some of the fixes but they are doable.  We do need your prayers though.  The eMi spring may not be repaired for several weeks at best due to the danger of doing anything on the side of the mountain when all the soil is saturated and loose.  We are going to start asking for government assistance and help from other outside organizations as a means to help pay for and progress the solutions.  Government assistance is not easy to come by here in Kenya.  So, we just ask you to pray with us that we will be wise in how we approach the solutions, organizations and even the leadership here at the mission station, and that water corrections come in quickly.  This problem has the potential of affecting not only our community of about 7000 people but also the thousands of people living nearby and in the region of East Africa who come to Kijabe for healing.

GOD's richest blessings to you all and thank you for standing with us in prayer and hope.
Jim

BTW.  If you know of any organization who might be able to help us in this crisis, please provide any info you have to JimT@AHC123.com