Its been a good week (but not without its problems).
The Bethany Kids project had a big one. The roofing sheets came - Yea! Some of them were cut to the wrong length - Boo! How could this happen? The general building company we have, actually started as a roofing company. We thought for sure this would go OK. Apparently, they took the measurements off of the drawing and not off the building. This is a huge mistake and is still not sorted out. The company that made the roofing sheets was very generous this year and made a donation to Bethany Kids. We sure hate to go back to them and ask them to redo the sheets. Please pray for this one!
The Art Center up at RVA is sort of progressing. We had the fixes to the beams completed:
This is not exciting or pretty stuff to you probably, but it is to me! It is good to see it without all the holes! We also think the new contractor will be on site next week. Just waiting to finish up the preliminaries and they and we are ready to go.
I go to town this morning to pick up an EMI Volunteer from Oregon. He is going to help me with the water system up at RVA. I am very excited about that! By the end of the week I hope to have so much information that I will be able to write procedures till the end of June! Not sure if RVA will like that, but at least they will have captured the details of the system and will know how to operate it properly and how to improve it. I ordered and received 4 buckets (20 kg each) of chlorine last night. This was not an easy thing to coordinate as they were located down in the industrial area of Nairobi and the original person who was going to have it here for me couldn't get there. It is not like running down to Home Depot! Trevor helped me unload it. How many Moms are giddy about receiving Chlorine!
We are doing a study of Ruth with David Platt. You can download his material at http://www.radical.net/media/series/series_list/?id=57
Ruth is a love story - how God loved even this Moabite woman. God set up the circumstances so that she could work for a man who was part of Naomi's (her mother in law's) family when she and Naomi had nothing. He saw that she was taking care of Naomi and had come to a land where she was a foreigner, just to be with and take care of Naomi (she was a widow). If you read Chapter 2 of Ruth, you see all sorts of coincidences that put her in a position of being protected by this distant relative. Has that ever happened to you? Things just kind of fall into place and even when times are difficult, you feel at peace? It has happened to me many times. I always see these times as God leading me. It was really clear to both Jim and I when we first thought about moving to Italy some 17 years ago. It was a shock to each of us to find out that the other was thinking hard about that option when we thought that was the farthest things from each other's mind! And hence began the journey of crossing cultures (several times I might add)! Isa 58:11 says, "The Lord will continually lead you, he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water." I don't know about you, but I really need this "watering" everyday! The world pursues the "bigger and better" constantly. The moment we realize that we are under his protection, we are free to do his work and help care for others and shine a light where there is only darkness.
The hospital's water supply tank is really on its way to being finished soon. There is another engineering missionary here that is leading that (way to go Andy)! It will be wonderful to have 600m3 of water supply! The water is constantly an issue here and the supply is now measured in hours, but when this is complete it will be measured in days. And, the new water supply is chlorinated. I grabbed a few pictures from Andy's blog:
Here it is on the far right behind those trees.
Great picture Andy!
We are so grateful to all who have worked so hard on making this a reality!
I have to get going, so that I don't run into much traffic. Not really sure if you can avoid it with timing because it is constant! Hope you have a good week. We have a very busy one here with the water system evaluations and band tour coming up this week end and senior safari soon too.
In His Hands,
Jullie T
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