Praise the Lord for His goodness, it has been an exciting time for us who are privileged to be here in Haiti at the moment to experience the excitement and answered prayers of the brothers and sisters that prayed for years and spent huge amounts of money and time here on the trail and in general getting things set up, so that one day (!..... February 25, 2013.....!)  we actually see the rig back into the gate at the base and start drilling a well.
   The road is simply a dirt and rock trail and very windy and rough and rugged, but since Brother David Ringler started out with the bull dozer we have been able to top 21 mph at times with our truck. We were surprised at how fast the digger could actually drive although at times its was still pretty rough and breath taking, like when it scraped the side of the mountain at one point because trail was to narrow or the time I saw Steve's mouth open as far as it could!!!!!! when he saw light under one set of tires on the passenger side rear!!!!
   I would like to express appreciation for all those that have prayed and contributed to this project, most of all through prayer, and also with time and monetarily, God uses each one that is willing to be used to get his work done, and I would like to further encourage you all to keep supporting the cause here, in my short time here I have had to blink back tears a number of times when I see baby's who are so tiny and skinny and then my thoughts go back to Canada and how well taken care of our children are, we might wonder why a well is so important and how it fits into evangelizing and bringing the light into this darkness, but I would welcome anyone over and live in a voodoo steeped culture and where a lot of factors have brought it to the point where simple needs of the children and people are being neglected and a simply pure water well can make such a difference. How can we minister to hearts if we neglect to teach them the necessity of being clean and taking care of the temple of God.
   I want to lift the Name of Jesus as high as possible, His Ways are far above us and we need to be more thankful. A person that isn't thankful has no joy, and we don't have strength when we aren't full and running over with the joy of the Lord.
   Below you will get a glimpse of some of the preparation of what has been happening the last couple weeks leading up to the actual arrival of the rig. All of us guys were privileged to be able to go out and watch in drive in.

Grandpa hired a guy to bring barrels of diesel fuel in from Ti-Goave, it will all be used for the well digging truck.
Note: The saying that the horse always returns to it's stall is true, the dump truck that used to be the missions that got sold in Port Au Prince eventually  got sold back here close to the mission again, and here he is on the yard unloading fuel!!!!

Here you can see David working on the road!!!

 

Couple of us are gluing some pipe into 20 foot sections so it's ready to put into well once we hit water.

 

Just look at that, the boys spent a couple days on the trail with the jack hammer getting rid of huge rocks that were sticking out of the ground quite far.

If you look closely you will notice the road on the left side over against the mountain, its pretty far down at places.

Coming around one of the sharp bends where you look pretty well straight over the edge.



One part of the trail has reddish sandy soil more then rock.

Reminds me of British Columbia, road is quite wide here.

Tried getting pictures of it coming down very steep hills but pictures just don't do justice.

This is them coming down "Jack Rabbit" hill.

 

Here you can see work in progress. Thank you Jesus.

Latest Update, 2:15 PM February 26, 2013.
Well is approximately 90 feet deep.
Hit some hard rock that has slowed the drilling down a little.