Hello to all!
What a great day! We went into the barrio this morning and got started on a couple of construction projects.
We added some room to one of the ladies that teaches the young kids stories. Nothing to special.....four walls made of bambo and reed. In the picture to the right, Anna is trying to re-weave some of the exsisting material to use on the new structure. The other place we worked on was a house for a mother and her young child. They are currently living with a sister in the barrio and it is not a good situat
ion for them. So we are starting them out with a similar structure. Reed walls and a covering. The thatch wall in the back is what we started with. I came by the same place a day later and the picture to the left is what I saw. Someone must have decided to help this woman out financially, because we found mud bricks going up.
We also worked on some footings for an classroom that Loys has started. We mixed and dumped cement for the footings most of the afternoon. They have a need for more room. It is near the clinic that we worked on last year. Anna got right in there with us and helped mix the cement.
She would help fill buckets with sand and rock as we mixed! She worked so hard today. My whole team is doing a great job. Here is the interesting thing. The clinic was initially started last year as one small building. When we arrived it was four of those small buildings long and it looks like they would like to make it two stories.
Our last item this afternoon was meeting with a group of ladies that meet every Tuesday afternoon for bible study. Roger Winkles, who is on my team, taught stories to them and discussed grace and forgiveness. We had a craft with them afterwards where they wrote their sins on a clay pot....then smashed it into pieces and glued them to a wooden cross!
We are getting an unscheduled day off on Wednesday. There is a one day transportation strike. We are told not to try to go to the barrio...there will be a lot of rock throwing and rocks blocking roads. We will hang out in Huanchaco and may be do a little surfing!!!
Love to all!
Mitch & Anna
What a great day! We went into the barrio this morning and got started on a couple of construction projects.
We added some room to one of the ladies that teaches the young kids stories. Nothing to special.....four walls made of bambo and reed. In the picture to the right, Anna is trying to re-weave some of the exsisting material to use on the new structure. The other place we worked on was a house for a mother and her young child. They are currently living with a sister in the barrio and it is not a good situat
ion for them. So we are starting them out with a similar structure. Reed walls and a covering. The thatch wall in the back is what we started with. I came by the same place a day later and the picture to the left is what I saw. Someone must have decided to help this woman out financially, because we found mud bricks going up.We also worked on some footings for an classroom that Loys has started. We mixed and dumped cement for the footings most of the afternoon. They have a need for more room. It is near the clinic that we worked on last year. Anna got right in there with us and helped mix the cement.
She would help fill buckets with sand and rock as we mixed! She worked so hard today. My whole team is doing a great job. Here is the interesting thing. The clinic was initially started last year as one small building. When we arrived it was four of those small buildings long and it looks like they would like to make it two stories.Our last item this afternoon was meeting with a group of ladies that meet every Tuesday afternoon for bible study. Roger Winkles, who is on my team, taught stories to them and discussed grace and forgiveness. We had a craft with them afterwards where they wrote their sins on a clay pot....then smashed it into pieces and glued them to a wooden cross!
We are getting an unscheduled day off on Wednesday. There is a one day transportation strike. We are told not to try to go to the barrio...there will be a lot of rock throwing and rocks blocking roads. We will hang out in Huanchaco and may be do a little surfing!!!
Love to all!
Mitch & Anna
1 comment:
Thanks for all the updates! It's great to hear what is going on. I really like the lesson you did for the women. Anna, wow! I knew you were a hard worker....keep it up!
Love - Sis
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