THE STORM
It was hot and muggy at the beginning of April and it stayed that way through Easter Sunday. Normally, we have some rain at this time of the year, we had prayed for a little rain and relief of the heat that goes with it. It threatened rain for a couple of days but when the rain came it also brought the wind, typical this time of the year. However, this time there was a lot of wind; we could hear the pan (corrugated steel sheets) starting to come loose and saw pieces of it flying by the windows. Thankfully, there were only a couple of strong gusts but still half of the porch roof was gone. Twenty pieces of pan, facer board, five pearling, all gone in a second or two; we found two pieces of pan two hundred yards away. In all our years in Africa this is the first time part of the roof came off the house we stayed in. The experience showed us how helpless we are and it does not take much to completely unnerve you, I had visions of the whole thing coming off. That is what happened to four of the church houses in our classis, all or parts of roofs came off that same day. Thankfully no one was hurt.
We had a lot of rain that day and a little bit since. We hope and pray it is the beginning of a good farming year.
Heavenhigh 