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Our Prayers are finally answered.  After going almost 3 weeks without any rain everything here was dry as a bone.  This morning the thunder woke me up before 5:00 a.m.  It was strong thunder — the type that shakes your windows.  As I listened to the thunder I prayed, Lord please let it rain.  We need it so bad. I lay there trying to go back to sleep but could not.  I kept wondering if it was raining.  Finally I got up at about  6:00 and was disappointed — no rain.   The rain has gone all around us lately leaving everything parched and thirsty.  I looked on the internet site I have marked for storms and it showed a big storm moving off to the west.  I could not believe that this rain was going to miss us again.  But finally at about 7:30 the rain began to fall.  

Rain changes everything in Haiti.  As the rain began to pour down we knew that no one would be coming to church this morning.  We began catching all of the water that we could.  When the barrels were full we started pumping the water into the bathhouse cistern and to the small cistern on our roof (as they were both about empty).  After about 2 hours of moving barrels, pumping water and being totally drenched everything was full.  The 2 600-gallon tanks beside the church, the bathhouse cistern, the cistern on our roof — all full and not only that but the gardens all got a good drink and the air was cleansed.  Thank you God.  

We need more cisterns on our property.  When we get a rain like this morning we could have filled up at least 4 more 600-gallon cisterns.  We are in the process of building a junior church pavilion which will have a tin roof and we would love to put 2 600-gallon tanks on each side of this structure and 2 600-gallon tanks to catch the water that flows off of our roof.  Please be in prayer about this.  These cisterns cost about $650.00 US dollars a piece.  Water is priceless out here.  This is one of the main ways that we get our water at this time.