Day 3 and Day 4

How would you like to live where the temperature is 85 every day and 68 every night?  Where your front yard has a few banana trees and mangoes in the back?  When you look out your front window you see mountains and palm trees?  This is Catalupa, Jamaica. Our group is staying in a church complex which also has an elementary school attached. We walk everywhere we need to go.
The past two days, Thursday and Friday, we walked a mile and a half to our project.

There is a woman named “Annie” who has worked at the church and at the school as a cook for many years. She has raised her family in a very small house. She is in the process of building another house next to her present home. This will be a cement block home with a concrete roof. This will be a great upgrade for her.

Where we are, everything is hand labor. We spent the last two days hauling sand and gravel from piles next to the road up the steep hill to where the new home is being constructed. What would have taken a truck to drop a load of sand and gravel in a construction site back home, has taken us two grueling days to move all the material and set the forms for pouring the concrete roof.

The people of the town have been welcoming and seemingly always happy. These people know how to work!  Keep praying that we would stay healthy and make a positive impact for Jesus Christ as we continue to meet new people and become engaged in their lives.

We have heard news of an impending snow storm for SW MN. We would be happy to send a little of our heat your way if that was possible. God bless you all!!