Posts by Gage Coldwater
CONSTRUCTION AT THE RWENZORI SCHOOL OF PREACHING KASESE, UGANDA Thanks to the hard work of many men and women from both the USA and Uganda as well as the financial support of many good brethren, the Ruwenzori School of Preaching is now more than just a dream, it is becoming a reality right now. The stem…
Read MoreDay 1 Nepal Earthquake Relief
DAY 1 – NEPAL EARTHQUAKE RELIEF Sometimes there are not sufficient words to describe how you feel at your deepest core. Devastation on a mass scale like it is here is hard to fit into a sentence and pictures even fall massively short of depicting the truest pain and suffering that is going on in…
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Nepal Trip In several hours Torrey Clark, Randy Gaddy, and myself (Gage Coldwater) will embark on the first leg of our expedition to the Mountains of Nepal to deliver earthquake relief goods and funds. It has been a difficult trip so far as Torrey and Randy have endured canceled flights and diverted flights just to get…
Read MoreNepal Humanitarian Relief
NEPAL EARTHQUAKE RELIEF EFFORT Hundreds of thousands of people are without shelter, food, water, and medicine in Nepal’s vast mountainous regions and capital city of Kathmandu. In the wake of Saturdays earthquake that registered 7.8 magnitude, estimates are that over 5,000 people are dead, 50,000 people are injured, and one million children are in need…
Read MoreECHO TROPICAL AG SCHOOL IS OVER!!!
What an exciting and educational week Gregg and I have been blessed with to be here in Fort Myers, Fl, learning how to improve what we teach overseas in helping improve the livelihoods of our brethren in developing countries and with the preaching schools and orphanages. Its great to get to learn and develop our…
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TROPICAL AGRICULTURE TRAINING IN FLORIDA Today Gregg and I started a class put on by Echo International on Tropical Agricultural Development in Fort Myers, Florida. We are constantly striving to increase our knowledge and abilities to teach in third world countries and we are thankful for the opportunity to learn from a group who has…
Read MoreBlack Soldier Fly Larva at the Manna Farm!!!
Here at the Manna Farm we have started raising Black Soldier Flies and their larvae!!! Keep reading to find out why… WHAT ARE BLACK SOLDIER FLIES Black soldier flies are small, harmless insects that have the potential to provide promising solutions to two of modern agriculture’s growing problems: the high cost of animal feed and…
Read MoreManna Farm Update
There has been a lot going on at the farm lately. I was released by the dr to begin working again there has been lots to get done. I’ve been blessed to have help from Paul Prashnik the last couple of weeks. We went this week and bought some goats to begin working on our…
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Here is a week by week growth comparison of the hydroponic tomatoes that we planted in Haiti 3 weeks ago. They are growing great! week 1 week 2 week 3
Read MoreMarch Haiti Trip
In March, Gregg Knight, Brandon Myers and I traveled to Petion-ville Haiti (a “suburb” of Port-Au-Prince) with the goal of installing a dutch bucket hydroponics system on the roof of an orphanage. We had a great trip with much success. We were able to install the system and 40 tomato plants are growing strong right…
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