Advent Conspiracy Update #2

Yesterday I posted an update on the Advent Conspiracy from the Living Water International side of the equation. Today I want to share an email from Pastor Edward Simiyu from City Harvest Church in Nairobi, Kenya. Edward connected the community of Jacob's Well to the Pokot region of Kenya and has facilitated all the work that has gone on related to drilling wells.

I just emailed Edward to share the good news about the results of our 2008 Advent Conspiracy campaign at JW - which I am right now realizing I have not shared on the blog yet. So, for those of you who read along in the blog world and weren't at church to hear the news when we shared it two weeks ago, we once again collected around $65,000 to use to dig another four wells in Pokot. Praise God. Anyway, that is the same information I shared with Edward earlier in the week. And just a day later I received this email in reply.

“This is so exciting! I have been receiving news from Pokot for the last few weeks and drought is really bad in the area. The four boreholes [from last year's AC campaign] are now the only lifeline for both humans and livestock and people are traveling far to come fetch water from the area that was once isolated and forgotten. There would be no people in the area now if there were no boreholes as all would have migrated to Uganda, a neighboring country. For lack of food, our people are surviving on bush berries some of which are poisonous. Famine now has been declared a national disaster here with news of people dying of hunger in different parts of the country. I will be back in Pokot next month and will share the great news of additional boreholes.”

It is so exciting to be able to participate with so many of you in this way. Thank you for joining in with which God is up to in one small and no longer forgotten part of the world.