Friends in Action - The Saintfield Baptist Church team travelled to Burkina Faso in January to dig wells and meet the needs of the local people.

1. Demonstrating
God’s love and
provision in
practical ways

2. Our purpose
Friends In Action International exists to facilitate
and equip mission work around the world
accelerating the process of taking the Gospel to
those who have never heard.
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is
none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord
will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake
them. Isaiah 41:17
http://www.friendsinaction.org.uk/

3. FIA Projects
• Burkina Faso – Water Well Drilling
• Guinea (New Tribes Mission partnership)
– Bridge construction
– Medical clinic construction
• England - maintenance/ repairs to NTM Bible
Training Centre
• India – Orphanage construction projects
• Papua New Guinea – Sepik River Barge service

4. FRIENDS IN ACTION
Water of Life Project
Burkina Faso

5. As cold waters to a
thirsty soul, so is good
news from a far country.
Proverbs ch 25 v 25

6. BURKINA FASO
WEST AFRICA
Fact File
Capital: Ouagadougou
Currency: West African
CFA Franc
Population: 16.5 million
Official Language: French

7. The numbers…
6000
Children die each day due to
poor sanitation, hygiene or
lack of safe drinking water
2.5 million
Deaths occur every year
from unsafe water
34
The average life expectancy
due to diseases caused by
unclean water
6km
The average distance a
woman or child walks in
Africa for drinking water
25kg
The weight a water
container can weigh
5
Hours per day is spent
walking to get water
£5000
The cost of drilling a well
and installing a pump
75m
Depth of a typical well
500
The minimum number of
people that will benefit
from a well

8. The Water
Problem
Most wells that are currently
being used are hand dug –
some large and some small.
This water is also used by
animals. Animals can also fall
into these wells and die
contaminating the water
even more.

9. The women and children often walk miles to bring back water. The woman in this
photo had walked a few days in search of ‘clean’ drinking water for their families.

11. Glad to have a drink of water
no matter how dirty it is.
As you can see the need
for clean water is great
and life expectancy can
be as low as 34 years as a
result.

12. Clean Water to
drink!

13. The Spiritual Need
The religion of Burkina Faso is mainly Islam/Muslim. A large proportion of
people have never heard the Gospel.
When drilling starts
in villages large
crowds of people
gather to watch and
this gives the
missionaries
accompanying the
drill team a
wonderful
opportunity to share
the good news of
the Gospel.

15. The Collier Family
Leading the work in
Burkina Faso
Water of Life Project

16. Tim Wilson
Full time worker
from Northern
Ireland assisting
Mark in Burkina
Faso since
October 2013

17. Transport Burkina Style!

18. Full Load!

19. A Brief History of the
Well Drilling Ministry
• 1998 The Beginnings - Survey work
• 2000 Rig and equipment shipped
• 2003 Move to Ghana from Ivory Coast
• 2005 – 2014 working in Burkina Faso

20. Old Drill Rig

21. New FIA Drill Rig at Balmoral Show – May 2013

22. New Drill Rig arrives in Burkina!

23. Old Tool Trailer (in bits)!

24. New Tool Trailer

25. Every space in the 40ft container filled
including literature from
Every Home Crusade

26. Ready for shipping

27. Unpacking the container in Ouagadougou
December 2013

28. The 2013/14 Season
• New hangar completed
• Drilling 36 wells from 50 boreholes
• 6 teams
• New Rig and container shipment
• Advance surveying: 60 wells currently on
the ‘to do’ list

29. Insight to work and teams

30. Saintfield
Team
Jan 2014
Tasks completed by this team:
• New kitchen to fit in Collier’s house
• Re-wire the Collier’s house
• Drill water wells and pump installation in a very remote
region in South West Burkina.

31. Drill Sites:
• Mangodara
• Pima
• Sideradougou
• Pambiesokura
• Djarakoro
• Ouo
The Team travelled by road from the capital Ouagadougou (centre of map)
to the drill sites – a journey of approximately 12 hours. The terrain was
very rough at times.

32. Video Presentation of January 2014 Team
Saintfield Baptist

33. Needs on the field
– Funding for wells to be drilled
– Volunteers for future teams
– A forklift truck (rough terrain)
– A primary school teacher to assist
Louise Collier in schooling the
children (even for short period)

34. Please pray for
– More would be reached with the
Gospel through a cup of water given
in Christ’s name
– Protection/Safety – work teams and
local workers
– The Collier Family and Tim Wilson
– Ebola situation in West Africa
– Continued expansion of the work
for His glory

35. Thank you for listening
Help us to reach the unreached by joining a drill team to
Burkina Faso – we would love to see you out there.
We cannot do it without you!