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Here are some excerpts from an email we just received from Pilvi Preisfreund in regards to the Avispea Church:

I want to announce good news – since Friday the 3rd, we have water again and we can go back to living like normal people. We did not have water for 4 months and had forgotten what it means to open a tap, especially little Miikael who did not remember what to do with the sink and the tap. When I start the laundry machine, he jumps joyfully up and down and calls everyone to the kitchen to see what is making that noise in the corner.

Looking back, Eerek has come to some conclusions that have also made me think. He thinks that it was not a coincident that there was no water. Rather it projects the spiritual situation of the congregation. We have a drought. And we can’t go on like this any more. We are looking forward to and desire a new experience of God and we understand that without God nothing is possible.

3 years of being at school took a lot of energy out of me and by this spring I felt empty and tired. Since this summer I have been working on my spiritual life. I have experienced the presence of God in the new way.

Be blessed and take part of our joy – the drought has passed, there is new fresh water in the well. Praise God!

Pilvi

Here’s the latest news from Eerek and Pilvi Priesfreund. Earlier this summer their well went dry during our children’s camp. We discovered during the summer that a new well would have to be dug and a new pump installed. The process would involve a lengthy wait for the proper paperwork to go through and more waiting still to secure the services of a driller. The drilling and the new pump were estimated to cost 80,000 kroons or about $6,500.

Since Lea and I last saw the Preisfreunds in July, the family has been bringing water to the house in daily trips to a neighbor’s well and taking showers at their workplaces. Thankfully, they have received all the right permissions to go ahead with drilling and are close to being able to account for the cost. Here is the latest news we received today in an email from Pilvi:

Hello,

I’ve got good news to share: we now have a well dug in the yard! We don’t yet have water coming to the house, but this is a big step in the right direction. We are so happy!

Pilvi

Please join us in praying that the pump installation and hook-up will go quickly and smoothly and be in place well before the onset of winter cold.

This summer Lea and I had the priviledge of serving Alongside Eerek and Pilvi Priesfreund and their boys Andreas and Mattias in Avispea, Estonia.The purpose of our time in Avispea was to begin to express a vision for youth discipleship that has been on our hearts and developing in our minds for the last few years. The goal of the project was to invite Christian youth primarily from the communities surrounding Avispea to join us in the adventure of growing as disciples by learning, serving and leading together as disciples. Our journey together was full of surprises and challenges. But it was a wonderful affirmation that God does extraordinary things through ordinary people who choose to serve together in his name in ordinary ways.

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