Unbelievable Coincidence!

[image error]It's Christmas 2011 and we thought it wise to have a special offering. We've wanted to put a well in Ira's home village in Haiti for some time, so we picked that as the project.

I figured 3k or so should do it, so Christmas might prime the pump and we could have the money in a year or so.

I was wrong.

We found out it was going to cost over $10,000! We have under 100 adults on an average Sunday, sometimes under 100 including children. 10k seems insurmountable, and last year we ended up in the red for our own bills.

Christmas raised around 2k, and then one of our home Bible study LifeGroups decided to see if they could raise some more – outside of just Cottonwood. They planned a line-dance, BBQ, silent auction fundraiser for mid-March. But it didn't happen.

The school had a conflict on that night, so they were forced to move it to the end of the month, Saturday, March 31.

The good thing about the date change is that some of us were able to go to Ira's home village of Pierre-Brizard in March. We brought back pictures. [image error]And information. And tons of energy. We stopped at the little school/church in the center of the village. It's the land Ira's dad owns, where his house use to be, and where the well will be put.

The village has one water-hole about a 15-minute walk from the village center. People go to the hole as early as 2am to try to get water. After filling up a few buckets, the hole is dry. It's a 2-hour wait before the hole fills up again. That makes it difficult for 250 people to get water. My assumption is the water would be relatively clean, if it wasn't also the water the animals drank.

So, we get back on March 16 and the fundraiser happens on the 31st.  At the end we are cleaning up and someone yells, "We did it!"

We did what?

We raised over $10,000!!

That's a God thing! Then we are praying, giving thanks in a big circle, many of us crying, when Ira suddenly realizes something.

"It was March 31, 1990, a Saturday like this,[image error] when my mother died." He said. "I was home, in our house on the land where we now want to put the well. The last thing she asked for, just before she died, was a cup of water."

Unbelievable. Inconceivable.

But not when God is behind it.

You can still donate for the well here and click on Haiti Well Fund. There will be more costs to keep it running than just the instillation. But somehow we all now believe God will provide the unbelievable.