Day four of the ROLF and Heacock Outreach!

We just wanted you to know really how much revelation 15 year Paul Marner got on this trip. He has decided that God is calling him to be a taxi driver in the DR. We thought maybe he should test his skills first. Hope Janelle has good insurance!!! Tyler decided that he needed a shot in the arm to keep him going. So we turned Doctor Alba loose on him!!! Nothing like team work to get the job done. Coffee break time. We could all use more of these! Trennis you the man! Go Lamont! Don't those dorm rooms look nice wth the porches on them? It is totally amazing what a difference a few people can make in one week for the Kingdom of God. Would't it be amazing it we live and worked like all the time. The world would change right before our very own eys. Thanks so much to all of you that have been supporting this project both financially and in prayer.

Day three progress!

I am sorry not to have any action shots from today. You will just have to see the progress in the buildings. As you can see we made great progress today. We have all the metal on two of the four roofs and should have all the metal on all four roofs tomorrow. We have a lot of detail stuff to do yet but we are confident we will be able to make a huge difference tomorrow. Blessings and keep checking for more updates. Remember to keep praying for the funds to complete this project. We still need between $125,000 to $175,000 to get us moved into the facility. Thanks so much for your support.

Day two of the Outreach!

Ellen, Ruth, and Amy painting again. Willie and Ruben Miller playing roof monkeys! Ray, Mitch, Brad, and Lamont building knee walls! The heavy equipment at work again. Vern Heacock, Laban Miller and Verle Stutzman cutting out and assembling trusses. Trennis Vaughn and Brad Dewald framing the third dorm room. Wes Miller up on the ladder. All I have to say is, where is the keyboard? A good look at many of the gang at work. Well, what do you think of the progress of day two? I think it is amazing what is getting done in such a short time. I wasn't sure we could get all four roofs done in five days but I am starting to believe it is possible. Praise God for perfect weather so far. It has been around 80 each day with lots of sun. Too bad for those of you from Indiana that didn't come!

Day one proves to be a very successful day!

The women that came to paint are getting right to work the first thing in the morning Vern Heacock being assisted by Jose Ignacio on laying out and cutting the rafters for the Chapel Building Phil Heacock is the other master mind behind the the Chapel roof. He is being assisted here by Rueben and Willie Miller. Day one was very successful on the Chapel. We have four rafters in place and most of the other are cut waiting to be installed. Good job guys. The team of guys working on the dorm rooms was headed up by Roger Hoover. Here you see Tom and Mitch Mosier and Brad DeWald forming a team to assemble rafters for the dorms. Who says you need equipment to do heavy work!! We are still not sure of this team? Trennis Vaughn and George Hofsommer, two pilots putting on roofs. Good job guys!!! Day one results of the dorm rooms. I think it is going to be a fabulous week. Keep checking for more up dates.

Welcome River of Life and The Heacock Teams! First Outreach of 2007

The teams all arrived safely and with all their luggage Saturaday night. Praise God for his protection and grace for a long day of travel. As always we don't have any extra room just enough to get the job done. This is what the teams have to start with on Monday morning. Vern and Phil Heacock will be directing the work on the Chapel building. Roger Hoover, a United Airlines pilot and good friend of George Hofsommer, will be leading the work on the dorm rooms. They told me tonight that they would be golfing on Friday so check back in to see daily progress.

Week of Dec. 8, 2006 Wow look at those Dorm Rooms taking shape!!!

Pouring the viga for the first dorm room. Isn't God so faithful!! We can't wait to have people stay in these dorm rooms.

New Base Construction Progress Report- December 2, 2006

Jonthan Thompson and Leon Bushee did a great job of getting the warehouse painted. It has a few areas that need some paint yet but is really close to having everthing done. Great job guys!! Leon and his wife Natalie stayed in the apartment this last week so now it is ready for guests and waiting for Carlos to move in. It is really exciting to see things come to completion. The Chapel has come a long way in the last month. The group from the "The Chapel" in North Canton, Ohio did agreat job of poring the cement beam around the top. It is now ready for a roof which we are planning that River of Life from Middlebury In. will do that in January. Then it will need to have the plastering done and the floor poured. We can't wait to use this building. The last several weeks we have been concentrating on the three dorm rooms. For those of you that have been here in the last two months you probably think that things are going pretty slow. One thing that has held us up is doing all the back fill by hand. We have finally finished and have most everything back filled to floor level. It you have ever moved tosca (that is the rock and dirt fill that we use) with a shovel, you know it is no easy task. We moved 300 cubic meters of material, mostly by hand. For that reason it has taken a while but we are on the move again. The first dorm room is ready for the cement beam above the windows and the second will be ready on Tuesday of this week if it doesn't rain. Our goal is to have the three dorms ready for roofs by January 20, 2007 when the group from River of Life comes. Praise God for His faithfullness!!! Sorry to say there has been very little progress here. The building company finally got the stairway fixed and it looks good now. We also installed the wire mesh on the second floor so we are ready to pour concrete. For the most part we have not done much here in the last month. This is what is going to be the cistern. Right now it is a small swimming pool. It will hold 20,000 gallons of water when complete and have a nice gazebo above it that will provide an exceptional view of the mountain. The cistern will provide constant gravity water flow to all the construction below. Continue to pray for us as we continue to be faithful to what God has called us to. We have spent about $200,000 on this project and need about another $100,000 to be able to bring the project to a some what completed stage. Our target date to complete the project is April 30, 2007 but may not be realistic. If not, then we will hope to be done sometime in the fall of 2007. Thanks to all of you that have participated in this project and have prayed for us. We love you and cherish your support. Lowell Troyer SI/DR Director

Fall Family Outreach in the DR and some decided that Construction was the easy way out!

Wow, look at that mottly group of rednecks and Dominicans working togather. Well they got a lot of work done and sure had a good time doing it. Now this is quite the team here. I am surprised they didn't kill each other trying to paint this building!!!! I only had to go untangle the hose from around their legs several times all week. No really they did an excellent job. Thanks guys Noah Thompson I think you found your calling in life. Family outreaches really do work! Hey when all else fails go haul bricks. These guys thought they were in Egypt!