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Drilling Water Wells in Mexico

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

An Update


The Canadian team is headed home to below freezing temperatures and can proudly report that they drilled three successful wells and repaired one that was not working correctly.

This was a hard working, dedicated team and the wells they drilled were desperately needed and emotional successes.


The most productive and impacting of all the wells was one in El Mirador that was lovingly dedicated to Karen Dumonceaux, the late wife of Pro Canadian Driller Gilles Dumonceaux. Karen was a supporter of Agua and died only a month after Gilles returned home from his last trip to Mexico after a long battle with Cancer. The people of El Mirador were told who she was and about the beautful granite plate that was laid into the foundation of the well. Her name will be known by this well. We hope that it is a fitting reminder of her life to her family and friends.

I personally saw one women remove her shoes before she stepped on the well foundation to pump a bucket of water. Gilles and the other men and women of this team will be long remembered for their dedication and the love they showed to hundreds of people they had never met.

posted by Agua Resoureces @ 6:32 AM  

Friday, February 03, 2006

AGUA!


Three Successful Wells!

A team of six men and one woman from Canada successfully drilled three great producing water wells this week and they are still not finished.

We are in Atoyac De Alvarez with our good friends Tom and De'Anna Shaffer of Latin World Ministries. The team has worked several long days and had their fair share of problems in the well drilling process, but they perservered...with complaints.

This team of four pros and three rookies consited of:
Casey Sitter
Tim Ehnisz
Gilles Dumonceaux
Aaron McNabb
Deborah McNabb
Walter Vidal
Graeme Swinnerton

They have worked tremendously hard for a new community that was desperately in need of water. We can proudly say WAS because they now have two very successful wells. El Mirador is a new community where the last well team sank one well last trip. However, the community has grown faster and larger than many imagined and they are quite some distance from water. Originally we planned to only sink one well for them, but there are few places in Mexico with greater need. Both wells had their fair share of problems, but this team perservered without complaints.

One other well was sank in Colonia Central, just outside of Atoyac.

We cannot thank the familes of these men and women enough for their support, hard work, and heart to touch the nations. Without you they would not be here. We know it is sometimes difficult to be out of touch and 'holding down the fort' while they are away. But they are now heros in the eyes of many people...including ours! A warning though...they are not the same! Many of them have been bit by the 'missions bug' and have seen the result of their labor of love.
We pray many of you will join us next time.

Until then...Dios la Bendiga!
Susan Creel

posted by Agua Resoureces @ 3:14 PM