The work on the pavers in front of the visitor's dorm continues. The Island Gospel Tabernacle team from Nova Scotia funded the project and came for a week to start it and get as much done as possible. After they left, 2 couples from California came and continued the work on the project. Also, Kyle, who was here for a week contributed his back breaking labour to the project as well. Anyone who has done this work knows that it takes teamwork and is very physical between lifting blocks, scrapping them, shoveling sand, leveling it, raking rocks and not to mention the wreck your knees become from kneeling on the blocks hours at a time.
Island Gospel Tabernacle had all the blocks scrapped and ready to be installed. The California team fought against the rain to keep the sections graded and leveled with sand to place the blocks. They almost had it to the edge of the building but we ran out of blocks.
After they left, more blocks were delivered so Ira and I could finish the line that led to the welding shop. We needed to at least get this section complete so that it wouldn't interfere with access to the workshops. We were able to do that and now the rest of the project will be worked on little by little. The most important part of it is finished and other maintenance projects need to be addressed.
On Sept 7th, Ira and I will be temporarily moving to the hacienda where the boys live. We will stay most of the week and come home on weekends. This allows what time we would spend driving back and forth to be used as extra work hours. We are going on a mission.
The rainy season is bringing forth the need for immediate repairs. Several of the roofs are leaking and almost all of the plumbing needs repairs. Many of the dorms have only 1 shower and some have none. There are 64 boys and 4 volunteers living there full time. There is also some electrical issues that need addressing but a transformer is needed so this will probably be the longest in getting tended to. We do have a generator that we can use to light the cooking area when it is dark on the early mornings for breakfast and evenings for clean up.
Please keep us in prayer. Not counting the fact that we don't have electricity, we will also be in a no service zone for phones and without internet. We will be around at least once a week to check updates and to post them. We have missed the boys since they moved, so we are looking forward to being out there and working with them in this ministry.
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