So we have started building today and we have gotten away to a brilliant start! Most of the Miramar group are building on the house site with the assistance from Peter, (Pastor) Hayden, and Jimmy from Wellington South Baptist and Keyziah representing Lower Hutt Baptist (Yay for the Hutt homies! Me and my mum Claire are the other two!).
We have built in a single day the framing, exterior walls, roof, windows in and have now started the Gibb (dry wall), with some electrics and roofing to go. So by the end of tomorrow we will be most of the way down the home straight!
It has been quite the culture shock for many of us as so many of us haven't seen such poverty let alone traveled abroad. Yet we have such an opportunity to show these people love and some of God's character and already people are really blown away by the fact that we have come here let alone to do what we are doing!
As a member of the team that has been before it has been amazing to see the difference in this nation from just a year ago. The slums have become much more 'westernised' with some large shops and factories which have shifted across the boarder to make use of the cheap labour. I'm still not sure what to think as many people that didn't now have jobs and yet it is a relatively ethic free move from these American companies. There has been allot of humbling and challenging sights that we have individually been processing in our heads and we are so often left more confused then previously. However it is these times and sights of the real lives that we encounter which challenge and shape us the most. For which we praise God and pray he would continue to mould us and have us be His salt in His world!
It is such a blessing and i cant tell half of what i would like to on here but God is moving and were privileged to be part of it!
More to come as we continue ministering and building in the next few days!
Kirk
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