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Well, Well, Well – Faith in Jasper Article A group of young people from across the country recently stayed at our church facility. They were with Katimavik, that national initiative to give young men and women a chance to discover our nation while volunteering in various communities. In lieu of paying us our usual rental cost we had them do some work projects, including digging out some window wells that had long ago been filled in when two basement windows were blocked up in the old Bedford Inn. After assigning them this task I was surprised later in the day to see in the huge mound of dirt just how many rocks had been in the wells. It was obviously a larger task than had been reckoned. In the history of the ancient Near East, as recorded in the Bible, several times a biblical hero had to contend with an enemy filling in his precious, life-sustaining well. In an age of taps and pipelines, and living in a place of lakes and rivers, it’s a little d...