We have had a very exciting 12 days of work and fun with the ministry Team from Winnipeg Evangelical Free Church 

They arrived with ambition and energy to complete a great deal of work.  All of their intentions were completed and more. Thus, at the end of their 12 days, this is what they accomplished. They leveled the games and barbecue area and built forms for the court. We hired the cement  truck with pumper, and poured first the barbecue  & food preparation slab and then the two halves of the soccer/basketball court each on a separate day. These were three intense days.  One of the men had welding experience, so he fabricated the goal posts, for both ends. While this was going on, we continued working on the bathroom building that Reg has  been building since our arrival in January.  Reg, continued working on the plumbing underground.  On the last day of their project time, we rented a cement mixer. With about ten people working we poured the concrete floor in the bathroom and the walkway on the front of the  bathroom building. The walls are now raised, up to the ten feet mark, making them ready to begin the top floor for the second story apartment. We hired a backhoe, to lift the steel beam in place that will hold the weight of the upper floor.

Two of the men worked taking down one more of the old white buildings and using the steel roofing,  they fastened it to the outside of the walls of the maintenance building. Two of our Mexican block layers began the walls of the storage rooms on the barbecue building. The ladies had a quite a time, cleaning up the old concrete blocks that were salvaged from the old concrete block cistern. The blocks had plenty of old mortar on them so the gals, with hammer and chisel cleaned them up. There were probably about a hundred or more blocks, which have already been used in parts of the new buildings. When the Hacienda was given to the Mexican church, it had in the kitchen area, a large walk-in type of cooler. Over the years, the door had been robbed. Reg wanted it removed as such a large space will be more practical to house freezer and refrigerator, as well as storage space, and it will make room for a small kitchen bathroom.  It took several days of nearly all the men on site taking shifts to topple the wall.  It will make the kitchen much more functional.

When the concrete games court was ready, several folks cleaned the surface and applied the paint to mark the soccer, and basketball lines.

 The first Sunday after their arrival the team attended the church service. After the service the church came out to the camp, where we the enjoyed barbecued beef and tacos called carne asada. It was a satisfied team of Canadians that watched the youth playing soccer that afternoon. The court  will be a well-used area, we are sure.

In preparation for the last truck-full of cement, the men had dug a trench to be used as the footing for the wall at the back of the property. The left-over cement was sufficient to make an 80’ footing for the fence. As of today, the fence is already eight feet high, and twenty feet long.

It was a special blessing for us to have our daughter, Lauri and son in law, Dennis here for a vacation, along with Candace. For three days, they worked hard on the project alongside the team .

Already we feel our soon departure from Hermosillo drawing near for this season.  We have little more than one month left to finish the bathroom building to the lock-up stage with sufficient toilets for use over the summer.  Please pray with us for this to be done.

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