The ONE DAY CHURCH program launched this past Sunday when we loaded up several churches worth of material out of our airplane hanger unto a rented truck. The truck arrived late so everything was late but we finally got away around 5:15 in the afternoon headed for Makete. We (Bill Ross, Eric Waber and myself) arrived on the property of Eden Valley Foster Care Mission sometime after nine. My mother arrived with Denice Van Order just a few minutes later. The truck pulled in sometime after 1:00 a.m. so my mom and I went to off load with the building crew. Only took a couple hours but sleep was disturbed. Anyway, Monday morning Bill and Eric commenced working on the roof of the industrial school building (Mechanics and Carpentry) and I began laying out the pieces for the One Day Church - Cafeteria. That's when I realized I forgot all the instructions. Several phone calles later (to my wife and one to Alan Knowles in Zambia) I got enough info to start assembly. What we hadn't planned on was rain. I haven't seen rain since last April so it wasn't on my mind, but by lunch time there was lots of thunder and lightning and yes, rain. It subsided in a couple hours so we all worked together and raised the structure of the cafeteria building. Tuesday we got the structure of the classroom building up but again we were stopped by rain the whole afternoon. By wednesday I was getting worried that we wouldn't finish on time so we started work around 6:15 and managed to put in a long day. The rain came sporatically but never really shut us down. We got the cafeteria roofed (60 feet long) and the classroom block roofed (90 feet long) and much of the roof on the industrial building. Thursday morning we finished the industrial building roof and put on a walkway roof on the classroom block and as we put the last sheet on that the clouds let loose - but we were done. We packed up and came home. I like the colored sheets we are using. They look pretty and should last a very long time. We've also got the experience we need to be more prepared for the one day church project. Only major change we need to make is to make our scaffolding longer.
1 comments:
WOW! A lot of work has been done on mom's property! She's getting twice as much done this year as last year and so fast! The roofs look great.
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