What a team! Despite a number of Cardinals in the group (wink, wink), this Kentucky team had an incredible start today. They did over twice the amount of slab planned for them, over 14 cubic yards (!!), and over half what needs to be done altogether, and all this by 3 o'clock!! Awesome!
We started our preparations with a bucket brigade. Our deep well produces fantastic water, but we only have a 50 foot garden hose hooked up to it, hence the buckets. Then Reed had the brilliant idea of using some of our 20-foot lengths of 4-inch pipe to form an aquaduct to get the water over to the septic tank, which we are using to store the water we need to mix the concrete and to wet down the area where we are pouring slab.
Meanwhile the mixer team got going shoveling sand and gravel into buckets and carrying cement over to our mixer. Then as the concrete started coming out, the wheelbarrow team started wheeling it over to the foundation to pour.
We started with the bathroom, which is only 460 square feet, and thought that was all we would get done today, but they finished it by 11 o'clock !!!!
So after a short break, we started in on the house part, and by three o'clock had another 660 square feet done. Only a little over a 1000 square feet left!
This seemed like the perfect place to stop for the day, since we used up all the cement we had carried out of the store room (70 bags!), so we cleaned up and put away our tools and headed over to see the kids at the old orphanage site. What a greeting we got! After songs and speeches, we toured the site and then started playing with the kids. One of their favorite games was "windmilling," which resulted in everyone getting quite dizzy. And, of course, a soccer ball appeared, and a game started.
The team, especially those who had never been here, were amazed by the love the kids showed them. The kids have really opened up over the last couple of months, a process started by the first team in January. We were asked repeatedly about when Kelly, Amanda, Alicia, Tammy and the others were coming back. A special request for Kelly: Emmanuel will be baptized in September!
The Lord has really blessed this group. Again it was obvious that He chose each one to be here, each one suited exactly for the work we have to do. We felt Him with us in all we did, and we expect even greater things over the next few days.
We will be ready for BLOCK LAYERS next week! Please pray that He will again send the workers we need so we can get the kids moved over by rainy season.
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