The wait for the tractor.

This is Josiah's sister, Deborah. Josiah always lived with  and helped out with the guy interns when we were running the internship program.

 I feel like we were in Nairobi for a very long time. We received an amazing gift from a Cornerstone Nashville Church to purchase a tractor and a water pump. The funds came the same time that Jason was installing the water pump. Back at that time there were many challenges and frustrations to get the water pump up and working. I know the Lord always has something to develop and teach us, and Jason wrote about some of that in the earlier post. Presently the water pump works perfectly! It is unbelievable how much water comes flowing  in such a short amount of time. Night and Day difference. So with everything going smoothly with the pump the next project was to research and find the best tractor and attachments for the farm. Jason narrowed it down within a couple of days and finalized the sale agreement. The one glitch was to wait for the log book(the title) to come which was yet to be printed in Mombasa because the tractor is a 201 Massey Ferguson MOdel imported from Millat tractors in Pakistan.  . With each new day, there was hope that it would be on its way,but it prolonged for 2 weeks. During this time of waiting for us there were many wonderful blessings. The highlight for my girls was the puppies that were born a week before we had arrived at the guesthouse. Each day they looked forward to walking out to see them and hold them. They knew all the names and the names of the momma dog and would talk about them as if they were long lost friends.

On the way home from our time in Nairobi. We always have so many things crammed in the back and on top of our roof rack, so all  girls fit in squished in the middle.

 We are back in our town and the tractor is here too! We were so excited we had to take some photos with it. I am sure Jason will write a blog soon about more of the details. My own thoughts of the tractor is that this brings a greater advantage to the farm which is ultimately for the people in the surrounding villages. It will allow the farm to grow which could bring more jobs for people. It also can bring more income to support the clinic and eventually run the training school on the farm. But most importantly it brings the opportunity to give all the glory to God- for He is the one who supplied this wonderful gift. He provides above and beyond all of our needs. As we always say the farm is the platform for us to show the love a Jesus. Without this platform it would really bring suspicions on why we are living here. But indeed Jason has fully become a farmer, who will now be plowing the fields on top of harvesting and selling the produce in town. We thank God for this tremendous opportunity and want to be faithfully loving His people as we work side by side them each day.

 "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibility broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it careful round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless- it will change. It will nit be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable... The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers.... of love is Hell." (C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves)

It was raining but the girls still wanted to stand in front of the tractor!

The plow!