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Sponsoring a Well in KenyaMission trips by members of Pleasant Grove Community Church |
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After a mission trip to Kenya in 2004, Norma's heart was opened to the plight of some of the natives. People would walk for miles to a well where they had to hand-draw the water to fill their 5 gallon jugs.
So Norma worked with her Bible Study group and they sent money to purchase a pump and storage tank. Now they can fill their vessels quickly. Here is the report from Arnold Tanner, the project manager, and some pictures to go with it.
"Well, the well project is finished. That turned out to be one of the most complicated projects I have been involved in. The Kenyans did their best but everything they did fell short and they could not get water out of the well. They built a stand about 15 feet high and put a 200 gallon tank on the top. The idea was to pump water into the tank and have the water in reserve.
"Of course the tank should have been about a 600 gallon so they have to fill it 3 times a day. The plumber they hired to put the pump in the well thought the water was only 15 feet down and actually it was 71 feet to the water. The pump is a bit small but it works. The plumbing was put in wrong and had to be redone. The main problem was that the generator they bought was much too small but they just bought the largest one the could afford with the money that was left after the other work was done.
"I worked with them off and on for the entire week and finally gave up and convinced the dealer to give them credit for the little generator and I added $400.00 to it and bought a generator big enough to handle the pump to pull the water out of the well.
"Believe me it was worth it if you could have seen them singing and dancing and praising the Lord when the water started to flow. It pumps 40 gallon per minute. They can fill two cans at once. They don’t have to wait, they just leave their cans and one of them stays and fills the cans. Most of all they don’t have to draw the water by hand. They all send their thanks and praises to you and the others who sent the money. Wayne Blaylock, the guy who helped me, said they we could have run for President of Kenya that day and got every vote out there at Kijiwetanga."
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Alice Triggs, Doris Easley and Marie |
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Our interpreters were invaluable to the success of our mission. There was one for every 4 or 5 people on the mission trip. |
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The catacombs where the Russians held off the German invasion during World War II. |