March 13. WE GOT POWER!!!

I'm grateful that we always have the Lord's power and we're thankful that we don't need wires or equipment to tap that Power. He is always with us. Nothing can separate us from His love.

Now about about another kind of power. Well our hopes went up a few days ago when neighbors received government electricity. Then for a couple days they were working on the power lines to the compound. Yesterday we saw this....

And last night our batteries were able to charge a few hours off government power. Now we have had electricity thanks to battery system that charges by our small generator or our solar panels. But everyone else has been without electricity basically since JUNE! They only had a couple hours, a couple days in September. It was nice to look out and see the compound with some lights.

The second batch of banana plants made it fine from Florida. Cory may try a third batch before we visit the States. He is hoping to have some ready for the pastors who will be attending conferences here at Fauche this summer.

Here are the plants from the first batch.

The guys hauled some rice hulls and more dirt from charcoal pits this week. Cory doesn't have to worry about running out of potting mix. He also received some of the bamboo seeds that he was able to order through the mail from the USA and England. Still waiting on those from Germany.