Hurray!

I am so excited!  Tonight I will get to try the new sewing machine a very generous donor bought for us!  I like to sew, but it was more of a pre-kids thing.  I was wishing – didn’t even get to prayer – for a machine to have over here to use to repair kids’ clothes, school uniforms, and to use with our church women for fundraising/microenterprise/skill building.  It is a case of answered unspoken prayers!  One day Kathryn walked up to me – I hardly knew her – and said, “the Lord put in on my heart that I should provide a sewing machine for your ministry in Nigeria.  Do you sew?”  Of course, I started to cry.  God is so good.  It was so busy around here that for a long time, I didn’t even have time to shop for a price, but when I did, she donated the amount through the church.  The WFMC team carried it to us last month.  I sent a tailor friend shopping for it today.  Now it is finally here!  It has an “engine,” as they say here, but it is no fancy thing.  It is the industrial black model that didn’t change much for a hundred years in the U.S., with what I would have called an “old-fashioned” treadle foot pedal operation.  It’s the one all the tailors around here use, working on their porches.  It should serve this mission for many, many years!  Thank you Jesus, thank you Kathryn!