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Monday, July 18, 2011

Adding solar panels to Children's home

(Still learning how to post- with apologies to commenters. I don't know how to reply. So Sorry!!--also, here is a late post--this was in drafts and I just realized it hadn't been posted.:(()............Earlier this month a Dutch missionary couple came and completed the installation of additional solar panels for our system here. While Ray worked with Anco and his assistant on the installation, Anco's wife, Ewein, and I took a walk up to the top of the little ridge behind us and did some photo shoots. (Her camera makes me a little jealous, I have to tell you.;)) We again met a man named Ibraheim who lives up there with his family. (picture in front of his house with his children Anco & Ewein have been working in W Africa for severl years, and like Brendon Shank in Liberia, have been working to see the promise of solar power brought to various applications. We are thankful to be on the receiving end of their expertise. Here is a link to the video Ewein shot to chronicle this installation process. I have posted a few photos on FB and will try to copy them here for you, as well. ....Thankfully, we have now had 24/7 electricity for several days. That means that we have fans and lights at any time of the day or night, and our little refrigerator now keeps food at below 60*-- there is even a little skim of ice on the frezer section at times!! YIPPEEE! (24/ 7 electricity is another blessing that we have so long taken for granted, is it not?).... We are indeed blessed at the hand of a loving God. But we are also blessed to be a blessing-- not to spend it all on ourselves.....** Hoping that you will find new ways to acknowledge your blessings and to be a blessing today. Mim in Mali

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