When You Pray, Move Your Feet (paperback)

By Tom Logan

Book Overview

How do you make the impossible possible? The answer lies in an African proverb: When you pray, move your feet.As a young man in the 1960s, American Tom Logan spent a year traveling in Africa. He returned to the US and dedicated himself to the civil rights movement, working to register voters in Greene County, Alabama. He protested actively throughout his years at seminary in Chicago and went on to build housing for low-income families in Marion, Illinois.When Ethiopia was devastated by famine in 1985, Tom and his wife, Jocelyn, were dismayed to find that 40 percent of the contribution they'd made to a large charity had gone to overhead for the organization. Feeling there had to be a better way to get aid directly to people in need, Tom went back to Africa himself. Nearly forty years later, Marion Medical Mission, the organization the Logans founded, has built more than 53,000 wells in rural African villages, providing more than five million people with a sustainable source of safe drinking water. MMM builds wells where it seems impossible: where there is no electric power, where many times there are no roads or bridges, where there is cholera, where there is no medical care. MMM builds wells for people in need, regardless of their faith. The MMM well program is run and administered in Africa by Africans. The people who use the wells know how to maintain them, and they can afford to maintain them. The story of MMM is a remarkable illustration of what can be done when we love our neighbor as ourselves. It shows what we can achieve when while we pray, we move our feet.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B0DNR94G24
• ISBN13: 9798218501211
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Only Together Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Tom Logan does what is right.

Tom Logan could have been injured or killed many times, but through some good fortune, determination, good will and generosity he has brought housing and fresh water to thousands. Unlike most Westerners, he has crossed through language and cultural barriers to interact, human to human, with other societies in Africa.