Arts and Crafts

Even though we haven't started school yet, we have been doing some arts and crafts.  One day while Lulie was sleeping, we made bear nails for Hutch. He wore them all afternoon!  Then today after Aunt Betty and Uncle Dwayne left, to lift their spirits I made homemade finger paint! They had such a blast playing with this gooey stuff! I messed up, well it was perfect when i cooked it but when it cooled it became this jelly-like substance. I have to work on the consistency! Such is life without Target to run to and buy finger paint!

Trailer

Seven months ago we started a process to get a new trailer. One that can handle our difficult roads and be strong enough to carry heavy loads. We don't a filling station in our town so I often carry lots of fuel, we carry propane to run our freezer and oven, and we have to bring groceries to last 3 months including milk and juice for two very thirsty children. I found the perfect trailer, but the problem was that it was in South Africa, three countries away. I will not go into detail about how much of a headache it was to finally get it to Kaputa, but let's just say I am glad we got a good one because I will not do it again.
Thanks to a lot of help from a lot of people it finally arrived here yesterday. I am so happy and we are so blessed to have such good support from all of you and our co-workers. I almost can't wait to take the next two day journey on poor roads just to see what this bad-boy can do!
Special thanks to Dwayne and Betty Mitchell to did the last part of the red tape and delivered the trailer to us in Kaputa!

Making Bricks

The church here in town has been spending Saturday mornings making bricks to be used in the construction of a church building. It is pretty rough work digging up clay dirt from the river bank and molding it into bricks. We made just over 200 bricks last saturday which would sell for about five dollars u.s.d total. It seems crazy for 9 men to work all morning for the equivalent of five dollars, but there is reason to the madness. The church is learning to be self-sustaining and each brick is being built on the foundation of Jesus and not simply money. For the past 2 years the church has been gathering in a building made of grass. If you looked at it you might be filled with pity for the church, but which is more pitiful a cathedral full of nominal believers, or a grass hut filled with believers sustained with the power of God? When is the last time you really got muddy for Christ?