Dear brothers & sisters,

Warm greeting in the name of our Lord & Savior!  He has been so faithful to us and may we also prove our genuine love for Him by keeping His commandments with our whole heart.

Let me update you first on our General Assembly documents submission. Last Friday, i.e. the day before our expiration, we were at the Fed. Ministry about 10:30 AM only to be told that all their offices were empty. It was due to a big governmental gathering being held currently at Hawassa.
This Friday (10th of July), however, the Fed. Ministry will be opened again for half a day. We were told that our submitting our documents a few days late should have no problem. Pray for our submission on this Friday that it will lead to what we heard before of a 5-year duration this time. When that happens ACM will not need to renew year by year but just to submit our annual General Assembly Record with the Annual Activities Report plus the Audit Report once a year.

With this General Assembly, 5 new members have been accepted. Yet 2 former members have left already – Wondi for the U.S. and Eden Emeru for personal reasons. Aida will depart for Hamburg, Germany within weeks to join her husband Ato. Meheret-Ab, who was assigned as the Counsel General of the Ethiopian Consulate there. Pastor Mattewos, our General Assembly chairman, lost her mother in the South. He couldn’t make it to our General Assembly on the 28th of June because of the funeral week tradition he had to observe in Addis Ababa.

Let me also update you on our 26 meters deep well which needs deepening. We have been praying about this for a long time. Yesterday, after a weekly meeting with Sammy on Tuesday morning, Joseph drove straight to Mojo – a town about 75 km south of Addis Ababa. When approaching the town, I stopped the Kia and asked whether this was Mojo. The 2 men walking toward Joseph, who gave the affirmative, turned out to be experienced well-diggers.  They heartily accepted our offer of 1,000 birrs per meter and were happy when hearing that we would provide them lodging and food.
The work will start very soon and expected to complete from 7 to 10 days.  Pray for safety throughout this whole process of digging down for 10 meters for these 2 men. If within that range the well spring eye could be hit opened, that could mean unfailing water supply all year round.  Yes, let us lift up our eyes to the hill for our help does come from the Lord the Creator of heaven and earth!

Let me also brief you on what AFX – a Hydropower Engineering Co., from China, had estimated for us for a complete job of drilling a well 70-80 meters deep. It will embrace everything from all the casing, gravel pack and submersible pump. Their Chinese manager, with his Ethiopian colleague, gave us a price of 488,800 birrs – which is just about the cost of a median luxury sedan car. (Note: the manager Mr. Liu said that for our Camping Ministry this quoted price can be lowered if there is a real need) Of course, this will be the best long-term solution for unfailing water supply, which was said to be sufficient even to supply water to the community around. Again we commit this drilling a well to our Lord. If this be His will He will surely provide!

Joseph

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