Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Day 3 Perlings, doors, and windows

Another blessed day today for the team. Irael, Alison, Cary and I helped set the concrete perlings in the ground today for the next house. The Haitian masons were skimcoating our house today, they were finishing up when we left. They gave some of us a chance to try the skimcoating. Cary got laughed at by some of the women - this is why they hire the professionals. The rest of the team worked to make door frames, window frames, doors and shutters. They got a ton accomplished and have really taken the opportunity to spend some quality time with the families still in the tents.
Alison had the great idea to put scripture verses under each perling as we put them in the holes. We will put some in the foundation tomorrow also. We want this home to be surrounded by Gods words and promises. They are already beginning to take pride in the home as they were using broken rocks to make landscaping beds.
We had an opportunity to talk with Patrick who runs the prison ministry last night and have decided to go shopping and get some soap to take back to the prison. It was the number one thing requested since the prison doesn't supply it. I don't think I covered this the other day (maybe I did but it bears repeating)- there were around 300 prisoners in the prison and they were crammed in these tiny cells. If I had to guess they may have been 20'x20 at most and all had between 18-24 people in them. We hope to go tomorrow. Actually we are going now, patrick just walked in!

1 comment:

  1. We are praying for your entire team's strength and stamina! Tell Israel and Alison that Max and Kyra are enjoying snow days here. Great idea Alison on the scriptures in the foundations; it works!!!

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