Sunday, June 13, 2010

Volunteer Team

WOW what a week!! I lost my camera!! And I dropped Braxton's camera and broke it! :( So I borrowed Eric and Jimmy's memory cards and used most of the pictures they had taken to give you a glimpse of what has been happening in Mapanza this week!

Yes, the women set up the tents at the campsite while the guys were working!!

Tooth brushing around the borehole at night

The Original Three Stooges :)

10 of the 13 on a game drive at Vic Falls (the other 3 were white water rafting!)

On the way to Mapanza...it took them 3 1/2 hours because they kept having to stop and retie things back on the trailer that were falling off!

The ladies spent a couple of hours prayer walking one morning--it was amazing and so refreshing for me to remind me of WHY God called us to start New Day!

We got the workers' house painted! Zambian men kept coming in to see because they were amazed that women knew how to paint!

The walls on the orphan house going up!

This was the finished product of what the team did in just 4 days!! When they got there, there was only one row of bricks!

Riding on the Big Blue Turtle--the ACTS bus

Mulenga got to see Victoria Falls for the first time and he had a blast!

Max and Mulenga spent a lot of time together this trip

Max, me, and John ready to start the day

Max hanging out on the ceiling putting beams in

Max and Max, the pastor of Mapanza Baptist Church

Max sat on this rock enjoying the view for about 15 minutes straight--he was in awe!

John and crew dusting bricks getting ready to lay them

Jimmy in jet lag--ha ha :)

Jimmy and Eric looking like farmers discussing their crop :)

The Alvarado guys with the headman who came to visit to see what was happening

The guys chilling in their "home"

Working on the ceiling in the workers house

Gloria, on the far right in the red sweater, shared her testimony with all of the workers one morning!

Gloria, Max, and John enjoy the fire

This is what the orphan house looked like when the week started!

Eric in the septic tank, chiseling out holes for pipes

Eric and Max enjoying their morning grits around the fire

More dusting of bricks--my LEAST favorite job!

Dave at Vic Falls with a fellow "musician"!

The Alvarado guys built the four corners of the orphan house! A Zambian guy kept coming by to check Eric's work and remove his walls so Eric finally found something else to do before he hurt somebody :)

Poor girl loves the mornings about as much as her mama does!

Calem and Brandon building walls--they worked HARD in the hot sun all day on those walls!

Caedmon and Cambree helping to get water

Braxton in jet lag!

Braxton builds trusses for our house!

Eric and Braxton working on trusses

Blu and Max working on the ceiling

Love this pic of Blu and Max!

Typical Blu...

The back side of our house--looks so good!!

I wish I had more pics of more people on the team, but alas, my camera has disappeared!! We are so grateful that people would give up time and money to come to Zambia to help us get New Day up and running!! Thanks everyone!! We will treasure your friendships and remember this past week forever!

1 comment:

Belisarius said...

I go away for awhile and you guys get a TON knocked out. I hear that Rob is putting a new team together to finish your house in a few months. I wish we could return.

I also hear that you have a care package leaving soon :)

Not to spread rumors :)

Anything you need in it? Besides the belated b-day gifts for Caedmon?
Bruce