Solar Panels

Praise the Lord! The pump is in the river! God sent two brothers from Cape Town, SA to come and help us. It was so obvious that they were sent just for a couple of very specific reasons; one of which was installing the solar pump. For any tech geeks in the midst that might want to know the specs, we bought a Lorentz submersible pump that runs on eight Kyocera KC87 panels and pumps water about 35 meters in elevation and a total distance of 114 meters from the edge of the river to the top of the hill where two 5,000 liter tanks will sit.

My niece, Alicia, was reading in Mark chapter 6 when our two brothers, Pieter-Francois and Frans came to visit. She drew an awesome parallel from that passage that I'd like to share. In verse 45 it says that Jesus "made His disciples get into a boat and go before Him to the other side." It says in verse 48 that "He saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them." So Jesus came to them and spoke to them in verse 50, "Take heart, it is I. Don't be anxious." Then He got in the boat with them (verse 51). It's interesting to note that when John records the same event in his gospel, he says in John 6:21 "Then they were glad to take Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going."

That is exactly how Alicia described our experience with Pieter-Francois and Frans. Christ had sent us on ahead in the work here in Western Province. He was keeping a watchful eye on us and saw that we were making headway painfully, for the wind was against us. And then He came to us through His body in the form of two brothers from the Church in Cape Town and He got in the boat with us. By the way, this made me think of something our Dad (Michael Reece) use to always say - that fellowship meant "all us fellows in the same ship." And immediately we were on the other side of where we needed to go. Frans is lacking just an exam or something for his certification as an electrician. Little did we know that he had those skills when the Lord sent him to us. In just three days the pole was cemented in the ground, the solar array was wired and up, the pump was in the river, and we had water coming out of the pipe at the top of the hill! What an awesome story of the Lord's provision.