A City Under Water (by Andrew)

This afternoon one of the other volunteers and I needed to go to town to do some printing, which is normally quite a boring thing to do. . . Well, not today! We went by the normal route towards town and quickly discovered that in fact this was anything but a boring thing to do! While we were still maybe one or two km from town we found that there was quite a little water on the road, in fact there were kids swimming in the middle of the road! When we reached the university which is about 1km from the center of town the people there told me that the water was very deep ahead and that I would be unable to get through, so I turned around and went on one of the higher roads to the other side of town where there was not so much water. Once on the other side of town my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to try to go back on the road where I had been told it was impossible to get through. As I drove down that road I couldn't help but see the flooded homes and shops of so many poor people who have nowhere to go during the flooding. The road was full of pot holes and the water was very brown and dirty, with all kinds of things just floating around town, and whenever a truck would drive by it would leave a wake behind it that threatened to swamp our poor little scooter. We made it home safely, but I kept thinking about those people and their plight; their homes under water and their difficulty selling things, or for that matter buying things to feed their families. I would like to ask all of you to join me in praying for these people, that God will place His hand of protection over them and provide for their families during this rainy season, and that somehow He would use this time of difficulty to bring some closer to Him.