Sunday Day 4

Here is what happened on Sunday:

This was our first full work day. As you would expect, Friday was a bit chaotic, and so we didn’t get all that much progress done. Today was a different story – there was some serious work getting done!

We have two crews painting the interior and exterior of the 7 classrooms upstairs. It will need two coats, so this first pass is just getting started. These crews worked hard all day, and got the first coat done on ALL of the walls. They did not get the “cutting in” all done, which is a major amount of time. But it really does look much nicer than raw concrete. Unfortunately, they gave us the wrong color at the paint store, and the first coat is a lot lighter shade than it is supposed to be. But we would have had to do a second coat anyway, it’s just now it will have to cover a bit more thoroughly since it is a different shade.

The “one-day church” is going to be used for a chapel for the junior college. On Friday we poured the platform (stage), and today we poured the rest of the floor. While that was going on, a crew was up on the now-dried platform beginning work on the block walls. ¬¬As soon as the floor all dries, we will begin going up with the block walls.

One crew helps in the kitchen, cleans the bathrooms, goes to market, hands out literature, prepares and executes the Vacation Bible School in the evening. They stay very busy all day, but it is quite easy work.

Rony Burgos (formerly the youth director of the Belize Conference) attended our morning worship today. Quite some time ago, he expressed a wish to Jim Lynch for a computer projector so that he could do evangelism and Bible studies. Over the past year Jim did some fund raising, and was able to purchase a brand new one for Rony. This morning Jim made the presentation of it to Rony; he was very surprised and pleased. We prayed over that piece of equipment, dedicating it to the service of God. That is one more microscopic piece of the puzzle to help spread the Gospel to all the world.

Our nurse, Marlene Medina-Ellquist, made the observation that she is a lot busier than she ever expected. There has been nothing worthy of mention, but rather a fairly steady complaint of cuts and bruises, sore throats and upset tummies.

Tonight was the first night of VBS, and usually we have about 20 or so to begin with, and it grows all week to where we have anywhere form 75 – 100 kids. Tonight it started out at 75, and who knows where we are going to end up; could be 125+. We send at least half of our kids (18) over to help Ashley Groeneweg. It is always one of the favorite parts of the entire trip for some of our kids. When VBS ended, we just hung out around our accommodations. (Some were already in bed by 7:30 – eat your hearts out, moms and dads!) The rest wound down and crashed by 10. More tomorrow.