No-name update

I couldn't think of a title for this post so it it officially named the no-name update. It has a little ring to it, don't ya think.
So it was Monday today, all day i think, and that means that hopefully we got some more work done today.  It definitely means we had many more interesting things happen, thats for sure. Let me try to cap off what the team was working on today - trying to bring all their wives up to date....

We had some gravel and sand (sab) delivered to the property so that we could do some concrete work, along with a mixer. Our Haitian helpers (secondary students and friends) hauled it in one wheel barrow at a time.  In the afternoon, lead by our fearless concrete leaders Derek, Derek and John, they then poured half of the floor for the offices.

Erik and Peter were up on the roof of the office 'structure' this morning putting up trusses, strapping and then the tin.  By lunch we had a very nice shade cover.
Also in the afternoon we started to build the walls for the ti-kay (small house).  Eric nicely laid out all the walls and cut the wood and then 'the guys' (our term for our Haitian friends) went to work nailing them all together.


Erik and Peter were busy this aft trying to find heights for our posts for the ti-kay, and had them nicely laid out, when finally, the Loader showed up and started working leveling out the land and filling in the big hole in the middle of the property.  Not bad - only 4 days late. 

This morning I purchased food again, for our food distribution that we will do on Wednesday.  Kim and Max went to work separating the beans this afternoon, into smaller bags.  We joined in tonight after devotions and finished bagging all the rice and cornmeal.  Tomorrow we need to make a sac of food for 150 families.

Here are some photos to explain a little better what was happening...

'The guys' framing the walls.

 Mixing the concrete...

The Loader working on flattening out the property.  He was able to do it a little quicker than we could...

 This is just a picture on me working...aka, holding a stick.  Just to prove to my wife that I was working hard...

 Derek and John working hard pouring and leveling the concrete.

The same picture of the guys doing the concrete.  This was just to show that it was a lot of work, enough to merit posting the picture twice....Spending time in worship through singing and  praise - Adoration!

This is some of the food that arrived at the end of the week last week.  It was shipped here from the Gleaners.  It is a dehydrated soup mix. We hope to use this when school starts again to make a vegtable sauce for the rice and cornmeal meals.

Last Saturday half of the team stayed home and worked on fixing the 'bridge' over the culvert in front of our house. Over half of it was broken, reducing the road to half.  They re-cemented it.  ...And we drove over it today and it held up.

Another picture of the team closing down the road so they could fix the bridge.  Of course they had all the necessary permits...rocks on the road blocking the traffic.

Eric and Peter taking heights for the kitchen and tikay.

Well, that was today in a nutshell. 
Please continue to pray for the team and all of us, that they would be safe on the job sites, on the roads, and wherever they are, and also in good health.  And we hope and pray that the last 2 work days would be productive and that they can get the projects done that they are hoping to get done. And also that in all things the LORD's Name would be magnified and exalted through the work, our worship, and while spending time with our Haitian brothers and sisters. 
Well, it late, I'm off to bed. Good night. Randy