Meanwhile, Community Bible Church in Nebraska raised funds at Christmas for us to drill a new well. We had trouble finding a company to drill that had a rig until we ran across Bobby & Mindy Roberts. Bobby is from Bangs, Texas - his sister works for Blu's dad and has been a family friend for years. Bobby & Mindy work for a non profit drilling wells in Africa, and they are currently based in Lusaka! Small world? A coincidence? Or God knowing exactly what we needed and orchestrating it in one of His amazing ways? :)
Yesterday the rig arrived and Bobby and Mindy oversaw the drilling of a new well for New Day!
Wes, Mindy, Blu, & Bobby discuss some "water stuff"
Every 5 meters down, they took a sample of the dust that they were drilling through -pretty fascinating!
We were so excited as they started drilling, but after 60 meters down..no water. Instead, they were drilling through rock.
All of this powder is rock dust coming up from the hole they were drilling - they were drilling through rock 200 times stronger than cement!
So they moved to another spot, and 2 hours and 60 meters later...no water.
Finally, Bobby decided that he would pick the site himself. (The other sites were picked by a company in Choma that brought out some fancy equipment to pick the spots, and then the Lusaka company sent a man with divining rods to confirm the locations).
At 6:30pm...in the dark....we hit water!!!! See the mud splashing up from the hole? Sweet relief!!!
We are so grateful that Bobby & Mindy were here to help us get water! Now we just have to install a submersible pump and dig a few ditches to run pipes to our tanks and we should easily be able to fill our tanks - ready for all of you summer teams! :)
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