“I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” John 9:4 KJV

A number of weeks ago, the radiator on our diesel generator sprung a leak, and by the time we realized what was happening the motor seized. The diagnosis was $1000 worth of damage. God provided the needed funds almost immediately, as well as wisdom and understanding to Cornelio and Edwin to be able to take apart and put the machine back together. While we waited for the parts to arrive, Mr. Antonio, our carpentry shop teacher, kindly lent his personal generator, and it was enough to give us light and pump water. Unfortunately, Antonio’s generator broke down as well, and we would have been left in the dark, were it not for a third generator that arrived this school year with Edwin, a graduate of the MOVE mission program in Belize. The third generator is smaller still, however, and barely keeps the lights lit. The frozen bananas and mangos went bad, and the water pump has been limited to operation during hours of direct sunlight when our solar panels are working at maximum efficiency. Miraculously, however, rainy season seemed to be on hold. The rain and overcast skies disappeared during the two weeks that the generator was down. Without this gracious intervention, we would have been hauling all our water from the creek. As it is, we have been hauling some water for washing and for the construction site.

It is incredible what softies we are in this generation, even when we live in the bush. The week after graduation we were in the dark again. Friday afternoon we had a monstrous electrical storm pass directly overhead, and lightening fried the motherboard on one of the inverters on our electrical system. Our solar system is unusable in the meantime. We were right in the middle of end-of-the-year paperwork, and in order to finish we had to move the office to a friend’s house in town where five of us worked all day to finish the necessary documents. It’s amazing how dependent we are on light and power to work and get things done. So often we take it for granted. How much longer will we have the favorable conditions that we now enjoy for spreading the gospel? As Christ said, we must work while it is day for the night is hard fast upon us. Day lights a burnin’! Let’s not waste one more minute of it!