Day 5

Today began as normal with private devotions from 7:00-7:30, followed by a Bible bullet, prayer and breakfast.  At 8:30 we began the 1.25 mile walk to the worksite. We finished hauling the rock up the hillside while final preparations to the roof forms were completed. 

Rose, the foreman of the project brought in his own concrete mixing crew of three. Pastor Leroy stopped by with the gloves and helped as well.  The concrete mixing took place on an open flat spot where the combination of the black river sand, white rock, cement and water were mixed together. Once mixed we lined up people to form a bucket brigade and began hoisting soupy concrete up on the roof.

We took a short break for lunch where we were served cheeseburgers. The crew especially loved the lunch!!! 

We finished with the concrete and then hit the road for the 1.25 mile hike back at about 1:30 pm, an early but welcome end to the workday.  We all walked down to the “springs” to shower and some washed clothes.  Once cleaned up several walked to a local soccer game.  We then had a Bible bullet and prayer followed by dinner.  After dinner John led a class with daily debrief, songs and a lesson.  Everyone was dismissed for the evening.