RECONNECT CHRISTMAS

These walls are strong!

The walls are going up on the community center.  The walls for the ground floor are done.  Next week we hope to begin installing the second floor joists for the rooms at the end of the building.  And we hope to begin pouring the concrete floors for the second story rooms next week.  After that, we will continue building the walls of the second floor level.

This doorway will someday lead to the new library.  We have thousands of volumes of good Christian books we are excited to get catalogued and made available to the pastors and Christian workers in our area.  Above this room, on the second floor, will be the radio studio.

Notice the reinforced concrete pillars and reinforced concrete ring beam.  We are doing everything we can to make the building earthquake proof.  We have had a 6.7 quake here.  None of our buildings failed.  We make them strong.

Above is the construction of the new water tank — which is the end room of the new utility building.  A college student, Ryan, from KY is out helping and for the first time is trying his hand at laying brick.  Our new water well is producing 14 gallons per minutes of pure water and will give us a clean source of water for the community center and visitors’ guest houses.  No more boiling our water!  This new tank will hold thousands of gallons of water.  This picture was taken earlier in the week.  The tank walls are now four feet high.

Well, our scaffolding might not be OSHA approved.  All work is done by hand under the blazing tropical sun.  Notice the burglar bars on the new windows.

This week we received another 15,000 bricks.  We decided to make the building’s walls three bricks thick, so we needed additional bricks.  The rolls of wire mess are for the concrete floor, when it comes time to pour it.

-Lowell & Claudia

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