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March 29, 2017
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Drilling Has Begun!

Hi <<First Name>>,

 

After the fundraiser in February, we were able to sign the contract with the drilling company.  To our surprise...

...they set dates for only a month later!!!  Drill rigs arrived this past Friday, followed by the drilling team on Monday evening.

On Sunday, we set aside part of the service for prayer for the well project:

We thanked God for all His provision…both for finances and for the people He has put in our path to help us.

We recognized that only He has brought us this far–through many obstacles and seeming impossibilities–and that He is the one in ultimate control of what happens next week.

We prayed for abundant and sweet water.

We prayed for safety for the drilling team.

We prayed for wisdom in decision making.

We prayed that these wells would cause people to glorify and acknowledge Jesus Christ–that even those who do not fear God would say, “There IS a God, and He cares about us.”

We prayed that God would do even more than we can ask or imagine.

We affirmed our faith in His power to do all things, in His love for us, in His goodness towards us, in His wisdom that is higher than ours.  And we prayed that our faith would remain firm, no matter what happens.

Please pray these things along with and for us this week!

Drilling: Day 1

(from the Lemuel blog)
Although originally slated for Monday afternoon, Day 1 actually turned out to be Tuesday.  We began at Site 1, also known to us as TW-1a (as labeled by the water study done in 2015).
I am by no means a well drilling technician, but I’ll try to give you a basic summary of the process.
A mixture of air and foam is pushed down with a force that digs the hole and cleans out the rock/soil debris. The water/foam/debris that are expelled create something that looks like a grey lava flow (although, it is completely harmless). If there is water running out with the foam, that’s a good sign!  It means you have hit some kind of water under the earth that is coming up and out.
Every so many feet, they gather a sample of the debris to see what kind of rock they are going through. We had a short scare when we thought they hit blue clay. Blue clay is an infamous well drilling blocker. Thankfully, it turned out not to be enough to cause a problem, and they went through pretty quickly to keep on drilling. (Lots of people are praying!)

From time to time, they clear the area around the hole of foam and debris as well as clear out the run-off pathways.

Each of the drilling pipes (if that is what they are called) is 20 feet long. Once they have gone deep enough to use up their loaded stock, someone goes up to lock in another set.
...By 100 feet, they had hit a little water (apparently from a small, higher acquifer). By 230 feet or so, they seemed to have hit a deeper, sweeter acquifer. After communicating with the technicians who had done the water study (who are in the States), we decided to drill to 370 feet.
Drilling continued into the night to reach this depth. At this point, we really can’t tell what quantity or quality of water we have. Our next steps will be decided in the morning.

To follow the progress of the drilling...


...please visit the well project page on our website. We will try to post daily updates (scroll to the bottom of the page for the updates).  "Drilling: Day 2" should be up soon!

Thank you for standing with us through your prayer, support, and encouragement!
 

~Krischelle Frost


But as for us, we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forever.  Praise the LORD! (Psalm 115:18)

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Praise God!


For a successful fundraiser in February. The Lord's provision for this project has been amazing to see!  

That the drilling company gave us these dates

That Rick Bucklew (who has been coordinating communications, details, and logistics for this project) was able to change his airplane ticket in order to be here for the drilling
 

Please pray for...


Abundant, sweet water!

The drilling team: safety, perseverance, wisdom

Rick: wisdom, stamina, encouragement

Lemuel Admin: wisdom for decisions

Machinery: that it will not break down

That these wells would cause people to glorify and acknowledge Jesus Christ–that even those who do not fear God would say, “There IS a God, and He cares about us.”

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