Now that we are home, the project manager in me wants to share a status report: Boys’ Dorm: the team helped mix and pour 33 meters of concrete support beams, and helped cut, bend, set, and tie 100 re-bar rings in preparation for the next pour. This represents support for the ceiling for almost half of the first floor. Irrigation Trenches: the youth team dug 40 meters of trenches in preparation for an irrigation system for the kids playground; not only will this give the kids a safe surface to play games and soccer, but it will also help reduce […]

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With each day that passes, we find ourselves dragging into the breakfast room a little more slowly and a little more banged up. I can think of nothing more tempting than a breakfast of Advil and coffee. Busy schedule today! We planned another short concrete pour to get a couple more beams completed. We also had several projects underway that needed to be wrapped up, including the grates for the windows on the girls’ dorm, and the trenches for the new irrigation system for the soccer field. Another project we’ve been working on is reinforcing the drawers in each of […]

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How many men does it take to build a shoe-rack?? 😉

With the big pour behind us, today we focused on continued progress for the various projects we have going on. In addition to continuing the irrigation work, the youth spread out and got engaged in several of the ongoing construction efforts, helping with welding, grinding, painting, and carpentry. The big event today, though, followed dinner, when we all piled into the vans and headed downtown. En Espiritu & En Verdad (In Spirit & In Truth) is a group that is very popular and plays Spanish versions of many well-known worship songs. Rather than a “concert,” the event was more a […]

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