I have spent the last few days in the fishing village of Percut. I wish I had adequate words to describe what I saw. We pulled up to the village, got out of the car and immediately children starting coming. On one side of the street was a levy, on the other the community. Most of the houses are concrete. Some are nothing more than planked wood floors with thatched walls and roofs. People – mostly women and children – were out and about. The men were out fishing. Most looked eager to see us. Some little ones looked a bit unsure. All of the buildings were old and dirty. The people were dirty. Every inch of ground was muddy. Running throughout the village were chickens, goats, sheep and cats. As we sat in our meeting place smiling faces of boys and girls filled the windows and doorways. They are beautiful! The majority of the time was spent with those precious little ones coloring, singing and practicing english. While I was with the children the others spent their time providing the village ladies with basic health education.
On the other side of the levy I mentioned is a river. This river is the life source of Percut. They use it for everything – bathing, fishing, washing clothes, washing dishes, cleaning food to eat – EVERYTHING. It is filthy. It is unhealthy. It is their life source but it is the very thing that is causing illness and sometimes death among their families.
Lift up the people of the village of Percut. Ask the Father to provide ways for clean water. Ask Him to protect their bodies from disease. Ask Him to call those people to Himself. Ask Him to cause them to thirst for living water. Thank Him for going before us. Thank the Father for the workers that faithfully go that village every week.
