Thursday

Today is intense for all of us.  The technical guys spent the day at the Water building learning how to actually build the filtration system.  They should be back for supper, so I’ll get some info about how their day went.  Harry and his group worked on budgeting and specific planning for installing the system- going through the necessary forms and discussing the importance of each.  My day was filled with “why’s” about clean water and then doing activities that we will do with the students “in country”  In many of the places we might go (no decisions yet), the general population’s literacy level is low as is their Biblical knowledge, so we must teach about germs and taking care of “pure” water as if we were teaching American 3^rd or 4^th graders who’d not heard much about contamination.  The activities are fun ( bingo games, put the matching picture parts together, making "play doh" germs, and acting out water related Bible stories)  

All of these activities are then related to the need for using “pure” water and caring for the bottles that hold the water.  As of now (4pm)  we’ve gone through 2 complete days of curriculum and will do the third day after supper tonite.  

After talking to Harry, he says his day has been all about assessment of various types.  All his work will help us decide where to go for our site installation.  A great deal of assessment must be done before we can actually go on a trip to install a system. 

My head is reeling with all the information we are called on to share with the folks “in country” along with lots of activities to reinforce the needed information. 

Dane, Walter and Gary returned from the water building feeling pretty confident of their ability to construct the device.  They had a meeting tonite to reinforce their lessons from earlier today.

We have a short devotional each morning and each evening.  Some of the songs we sing are to familiar tunes, but with different words.  The first song the first evening was especially appropriate because it was written for Living Water for the World.  I’ll share it later if anyone is interested. 

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