Your
Church at Work Around The World……….
Marion Medical
Mission
This is God’s Story:
Loving your neighbor is like loving God
We are in the midst
of a great and glorious battle. We have joined the extreme poor in Malawi,
Tanzania, and Zambia in their fight for a sustainable source of safe drinking
water. God has not called the US Marines. He has called us. The Shallow Well
Program is Holy Ground. This is a spiritual journey, one that is life changing.
All 33 of the MMM
volunteers who were on this year’s mission teams to Africa are back
from the front lines, back from the fire, back from the mountain top. The poverty stunned us. The problems overwhelmed us. Yet, hand in hand with God’s people as God’s people, the miraculous happened.
from the front lines, back from the fire, back from the mountain top. The poverty stunned us. The problems overwhelmed us. Yet, hand in hand with God’s people as God’s people, the miraculous happened.
We prayed hard and
often. Then, we got up off our knees and went to work. Together from the
mountain top we saw the Promised Land: 2,575 wells were built between September
1, 2012 and November 3, 2012. That’s an estimated 386,250 people (231,750
children) with a sustainable source of safe drinking water in 9 weeks! There
are another 145 wells waiting for pumps and under construction, giving us a
total estimated well count for 2012 of 2,720!
Together we are a
part of each other. Together we are one. Together as God’s people we are being
made whole, complete, who we were created to be. Together we are made in God’s
image. Together we are somebody. Together we participated in the impossible.
We ask you to help us
tell the story, this miracle we are a part of, the impossible we have
participated in Africa. From this side in the United States, we need to
harvest what God has already given. As of mid-November, we have 1,108 wells
yet to fund for this year... 1,108 opportunities to share God’s blessings with
the extreme poor.
“Our Father who art
in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth...”
We say it often. It happens when we bring His kingdom to earth by
what we choose to do, how we choose to love Him enough to model His heart and
life.
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