Peru – Monday

Last year the team tiled two Sunday school rooms, hauled a stack of adobe brick from the back of the church to the street, broke the brick into small pieces, poured landscape dirt over the pieces, and planted some flowers and small vegetation.  Pastor Jose built a garden were the brick had been and moved the plants inside the walls of the church compound to prevent them from being stolen.  He’s watered them and they are quite beautiful!

This year our team is building a 10X16 community kitchen that we may call FAMILY . . . “Frazer At Milagro Is Loving You”.  For a lay construction team, it appears we’ve made really good progress.  Monday the 3X4X4 posts were set in concrete then the floor was framed.  On Tuesday, we watched as some local concrete laborers mixed the sand, gravel, and concrete mix with water right in the street on the ground . . . by hand!  We set the rafters and at least more than half of them.  All by Tuesday!  The work is crude labor because the Peruivans are several decades, at least in Milagro, behind the United States in tools.  Many of them don’t own tools in the first place or purchase them . . . they make them.  Or, find pieces of each tool and refurbish them enough to use.

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