Our big teams use an organization called ACTS based in Zimbabwe. ACTS takes care of all food, transportation, and lodging for our teams--a task we simply could not handle on our own!
The team camped out in 2 man tents for the week.
This is the ACTS vehicle, the Blue Beast. The team rode on top, and all equipment is on the bottom. It's a massive vehicle but it made it out to the bush! (It took 9 hours....)
Blu spends most of his time driving his truck all over the land, transporting riversand or bricks. Here he is so excited to actually get to work on our house!
Brian works on the second line of our house
Cason loves being dirty in the bush! His face, actually, is not dirty but is instead scraped up from taking a fall on our slab!
Emanuel lays the first line on our house!
Greg and Ryan spent most of the week building roof trusses
The kids "helping" Lala (fellow missionary Laurie who came with Wes to help out for a couple of days) cook supper
The hydraform machine puts out about 800 bricks per day
Wes gave the women a hard time for not doing "manual labor." Jill assured him she could haul bricks with the men, and she spent the next day doing just that!
The women at the meeting loved the craft where they got their pictures taken. Zambian women never want to smile, so Jill made all sorts of funny sounds to get them to smile and laugh!
10 year old Joy loved playing with our kids and the Zambian kids in the dirt
Caedmon and Cambree help fan the fire to get supper going
The ladies on the team discuss the next day's women's meeting
Lines of hydraform bricks ready to be transported to our house to build walls
Mary and Cindy working hard cleaning and scraping brick
Mary and Debbie clapping and singing during the conference
Mary working harder than her husband Bruce :)
Mike and Brian setting the interior walls
It cracked me up to see Mike and Bruce stop to chase a butterfly to take its picture! They got a great picture, I have to admit, but it was still pretty funny!
Mike and Friday building walls
Architect Mike shows the Zambians where the wall should go
An old woman at the women's conference enjoyed looking at her photo!
Paw's Crew--the 5 guys he has worked with for the last 6 weeks
Paw up on a pole
Power lines at sunset
Rob explains to Emanuel how to keep the lines level using the string as his guide
Scott finishing the roof! They got the roof completely done on the worker's house!
The slab ready to be poured on our house--this got done just hours before the team arrived! We were cutting it close!
Steve, Matt, and Brian unloading brick onto our slab
Steve, Mike, and Matt scraping and dusting bricks to get ready to put walls up
Susan singing with the women at the conference
The transformer is up!
The women gathered at the conference on the second day
The team was amazing. It is so humbling to think about the fact that 17 people from America would take 2 weeks vacation, spend almost $3000, and leave their families behind to come and help us build New Day Orphanage. We got so much work accomplished and many seeds were planted for future ministry. Our kids LOVED the team (especially the two grandpas--Bruce and Mike!) and it enabled me to be out in the bush for a week and feel like I am apart of what is happening as well. THANK YOU so much to Grace Point Church -- we'll see you on furlough in November 2011!
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