God's Provision for this week!

Praise God Katie's family was able to come and spend a week with her. Dave, her father, and Jacob, her brother, wanted to work at the New base this week so I arranged a few things for them to do. Wow what a blessing they were. You will see below some of the projects that they completed in just one week. Dave cutting the sinks to fit the openings. Jacob putting up the supports for the sinks. A new sink cut perfectly to fit and not destroyed while cutting. Truely amazing!!!!! This area is now ready for ceramic and for the sink to be connected. Ceilings in the bathrooms of the Chapel. Doesn't that look great? Dave assembling bathroom doors. Jacob closing in the above the sill plate with screen. The whole gang that worked this week. Right now we are going full bore trying to finish these four buildings. The doors and windows are ordered. The ceramic is here to install. All the fixtures to do the finish plumbing is here sitting in the warehouse. I will do my best to try and do a new posting evey week for the next month or so. Continue to pray now for the funding to complete the two-story building which is the kitchen,dining hall and administration building. We would like to start closing that in with in a month. Again thanks for your prayer and financial support during this last year and a half of construction. Blessings

Wow! We really did do it all in two days! Praise God

 

 

 

The Chapel building has a floor in it. We are so excited because we really moved this project forward again in just two days. Keep praying for us as we finish up these four buildings. We mixed almost three hundred bags of cement in just two days and we could of done more. It was all God. We recieved money on Wednesday and Thursday and Friday we poured all the floors. Thanks again for your prayers in this process.

We did our best to Floor it today!

 

This is where we started this morning. We had the gang here at 6:00 am sharp but then our finishing crew did not show up until almost 8:00. They not only finish the concrete but they also level it and float it. So we were stuck until they came. Then they were only a half crew and we had a crew and a half. But all went well and we got floors in two of the three dorm buildings today. They really look nice. The sealer is on and they are a beautiful red color. Praise God for his faithfulness in the middle of trials. Anthony got the honors of bringing in the first wheelbarrow load. One of the construction students trying his hand at wheeling concrete.

 

This is the construction site at it's best. Everyone has a job just the way Brian always has it planned. Here is one of the finishers running the power trowel. Here is the finished product. Tomorrow we will finish with all the floors in the dorm rooms and the Chapel Praise God for his provision of money just in time so we can finish these four buildings in the next couple of months. Stayed tuned for the upcoming action.

Praise God we are moving forward on the New Base Project

Praise God for His faithfulness during the last year and a half of construction. We feel we are finally turning the corner in this project. The only one detail that is giving us some challege is the financing to finish. We could really use $25,000 immediately to help us finish the the three dorm rooms and the chapel in the next two months. Please prayerfully consider what God would be asking of you to help finish this job on time. Thanks again for all your support We have been working inside most of the month of May because we had rain almost every day. So we concentrated on getting the dorm rooms done as much as possible. We have them ready for floors. The electrical tubes are in the floors and the wire mesh is down and now we just have to pour and finish them. We are hoping to do that in the next couple of weeks. If you would like to help us with this part of the project we need roughly $5,000 to make it possible. You can also see that we are in need of doors and windows. The windows for the dorms and chapel cost $5,000 installed and the doors about $3,000. We could really use your help. As you can see the bathroom walls are all in place. We have them all plastered except where we will be installing ceramic tile. We also worked on this during the rainy season. It will cost us approximately $5,000 to finish six bathrooms with 2 showers, 2 toliets and 2 sinks in each one. Maybe you could help us with one or more?? Last and not least we have started working on the septic system again since the rain has subsided. Myron Mullet will be returning the end of July to install everything and make sure it is working properly.

The Dorm Rooms are now all plastered!

Don't they look great! The dorm rooms are ready for floors and paint.

Hey new shoes for the workers-Thanks Donnie Ott

They all made the trip well and we had no problems in customs. Christian eyeing his new prize Rudy looking them over good. Rudy and Son having fun picking out their new shoes. William taking a pair. Fico taking his turn Melvin with a huge smile while getting his new work boots. This is a very contented group of guys with brand new boots. Thanks again Don for thinking of this.

New Base Septic Project

Here you can see the three stage septic tank being layed up with block This area is where the water will be filtered before reentering the creek. Another view of the filter box. It is real difficult here to use a drain field type system to get rid of your gray water. Myron Mullet from Colorado is helping us design a way to clean the water before putting it back into the eco-system. It should be a great example to the community on how simple water treatment plants can be made. Thanks Myron for your help.

We finally have more to show on the Progress of the New Base

Today we dug the area to put in the septic and filter box. Last week Myron Mullet was here again for one week and helped us plan out what we are doing for the septic. He is planning on returning the second week of April to install all the water lines and infrastructure for the septic. We have a one week team here right now. They are installing the facia trim metal and painting. Dan Yoder from Middlebury is also here. He is here for several week. Dan has been working on putting all the ceilings in the bathroooms of the Dorm rooms. Dan has been a huge blessing.

Day five - What a fabulous finish!!!

This is what it looked like at about 3:00 pm on Friday afternoon! This is what it looked like at 4:00 pm as the guys finished up! I just want to say thank you to all that came on and made this outreach possible. For me this has been the high light of this project so far. Only in my dreams could I imagine getting all this work done in one week. But let's take time to praise God for his faithfullness during this outreach. It never rained one drop during the work time, that is a miracle this time of year. No one was injured during all this work. We had minor things happen like some bug bites and a few stitches but nothing serious. We had all the materials necessary. Everyone worked togather well and we had a great time. God was here with us and he showed his faithfullness and the work that was done was a testimony to all that observed it. Special thanks to George Hofsommer for leading this team. Also special thanks to Vern Heacock, Phil Heacock and Roger Hoover for your leadership in building the roofs. God used you all mightly this week to further his kingdom here in the Dominican Republic. Blessings to all of you until you can return.