What in tarnation?
We made this a few days ago. The guys on the team are getting ready to make another trip to the village and will take it with them. Any guesses? another angle:
New Reality
On Friday, the same pilots who took the picture below passed over our house-site again. They took this picture. The construction team had started to work again and had accomplished quite a bit in the week. As you can see, they’ve finished the foundation for the outside walls and have finished one of the inside […]
Reality Stinks, Sometimes
The pilots that fly for our organization were flying over our area on Sunday and took this picture for us. This is pretty much how we left it over two weeks ago. We had planned, had understood that the construction crew would be finished with the foundation and walls by next week. But, now, it […]
Our House
Well, we don’t have a house yet. We were hoping that our foundation and walls would be completed when we went out on our last visit to the village. And, we were planning on getting the 2nd house started. But, as we didn’t realize just how much cement we’d need for the foundation, the construction […]
In the Village: Making Adobes
We still lack many adobes, so I would not be surprised if we ladies get involved in making some adobes, too! It would be good time spent with the ladies! Visiting, learning their world, and at the same time working to get our houses built! Please pray with us that the people would be motivated […]
In the Village: Back-breaking Work
Please pray for safety and strength for the work we’ll be doing for our houses.
The Guys’ Trip
Last week, the guys on our team and a missions pastor from a local church here took off to the village with Katie’s and my house plans, a model of our house, cement for our foundation, and lumber for our lintels. It was a trip mainly to get the construction started on our house. They […]
Our House
Two weeks ago, when we came out of the village last time, we sat down together as a team and decided that we would build our house (Katie’s and my house) first! I was hit with excitement – that we were finally getting to build our house- and the realization that OUR HOUSE WAS GOING […]
Water?
We had the privilege of taking a hydrologist friend of one of my partners with us on our last trip. The men hiked all over the area investigating all the water sources within a mile radius of our village – springs, creeks, and seeps. He determined that we have plenty of water to supply all […]