The Amish would be jealous? Raising the barn in Central Africa

Raising the barn at ICDI

Today we got a lot accomplished on the barn.  We thank God for the safety of our guys because we worked with a lot of pieces of steel and some of the guys were up about 25' connecting the top of the barn.  Josh spent most of the day on scaffolding mounted on the bed of a truck and Craig spent most of the day in the bucket of the backhoe high up in the air.  We don't have access to special equipment that is available at home to get up high, so we have to be creative to make it work and still doing so with safety in mind. 

We appreciate your prayers as we will continue to work up high to finish the barn.  We also enjoyed our time with the other workers laughing at each other and learning each others langage a little.  We had competitons to see who could lift the arch structure into place with a group on each side, the Africans would cheer when they were first.  On the last arch they had  the Central Africans on one side and the Americans on the other side, thankfully for us we won!  I believe we are having an impact on these guys more than building a barn hopefully they see Jesus working through us.

Bruce and Rick continued their work on the farming equipment.  They even went out into the field and used the plow and trained the ICDI employees.

Bruce & Rick

I appreciated that Rick and Bruce wore matching outfits today I guess I did not get the memo.  Our team is doing a great job, each guy is willing to serve the Africans and each other.  We have lots of fun picking on each other but we all are committed to working as hard as we can to do as much as we can.  Thanks to all the families who have allowed these guys to be here.

Tim