Rain, Rain Go Away!

You might think a missionary who lives just south of the Sahara Desert would never say these words. Believe me, they rarely come out of my mouth. However, when we get a heavy rain on a Sunday morning, it means disaster for our church attendance. Why you may ask. First, we do not have a single member of our church who owns a car. Most of our people walk, ride their bikes, or ride their moped (small scooter). Therefore, they don’t have the protection from the rain that many of us who own automobiles are used to. Secondly, with Burkina being one of the poorest counties in the world, we don’t have the infrastructure that we are used to in the States. A lack of drainage systems means water all over the roads, which are mostly dirt. It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, so I will let these images explain the rest.