Some times building the Kingdom, means literally building something. Yesterday we had to fill wheel barrows 30 times and wheel it around the back of the Community Center. I wanted to clean up the back and and pour a concrete porch, and now it's done and it looks so much better. We arrived in the colonia at 8 am and the ready mix truck arrived an hour early, wow that was a first! We got a few neighbors to help wheel the concrete around back, and within a few hours, it was all done. Sure enough, we had the neighbors dog and our cat walk through the fresh concrete. What is it about fresh concrete that draws animals to walk through it? No chickens though, Praise the Lord!
Paula had her sewing class yesterday as well and they had to hold off on using the back door for a while until the concrete hardened and we were done finishing it. We ordered some mini split A/C units to give a little comfort to the sewing class that has used fans during the class. The men came and installed them after lunch yesterday. We put one big one in the community center and one in our house, and a smaller 110 volt one in Carmelo and Ruths house. Just taking the humidity out of the air makes a huge difference. We had one in our house back in Chicago and we had all three installed for the same price as one the costed us 15 years ago. So maybe this year we can get a team here to install some insulation and drywall in our house to allow the a/c to cool more efficiently.
We have 15 people arriving in the next few days to "do" the work of the ministry, which is helping those in need. We plan on building two houses and doing other ministry in the colonia while they are here. Hulls Grove baptist Church from Vale N.C. arrives on Saturday, and a family from Kentucky is driving down and a friend of theirs is flying down. It will be a great week I'm sure, and because we're staying in Mexico we won't have to cross the border every day, giving us more time to do ministry and have more fellowship time.
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