'Is this a test of our ability to recognize the impossible?'
It was the latest assignment in Brandon Gloor’s Missionary Technology class: Build a water system that would collect all the rainwater from each day and store it for drinking water, but would first set aside the initial 55 gallons that washes off the roof as contaminated.
The system was to utilize that contaminated water to flush toilets and then send the rest into the water tank.
And, adds Brandon, it had to be designed so that it would reset automatically and could be made from commonly available hardware and parts.
Brandon admits that when he heard the assignment, he couldn’t help thinking, “Can you actually do that? Or is this a test of our ability to recognize the impossible?”
That was several weeks back.
And right now, Brandon writes, the design for that exact system “is sitting on my dining room table.”
“My partner and I designed it last week with just a pencil and paper and our newly sharpened minds—minds that are constantly getting blown away with new information and techniques for making things work on the mission field.”
He says his instructor, Tim See, is an incredibly insightful man. “He has made it his full-time ministry to pass on all these practical skills to missionaries. He constantly gives glory to God for creating the world in such an ordered way.” Brandon says that Tim is “a missionary with an incredible gift for understanding how to harness God’s creation for advancing the message of the Gospel. … The Lord has used him to give us a wealth of insight into what we can expect.”
The excellent training that Brandon and his wife, Grace, are receiving at NTM’s Missionary Training Center is preparing them to go and do the “unfinished work” that God already has waiting for them to do, Brandon writes.
Their hope is to take God’s Word and to teach and train believers “to maturity in Christ.”
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