From January 11, 2014, a team from 1st Presbyterian Church-Midland will be traveling to the Central American country of Belize, and working with The Word at Work ministry. This will be an opportunity to reach out and share the gospel with the people of Belize while working side-by-side with the local community and The Word at Work staff on a much-needed construction project.
If I had a hammer, and some cement, some rebar ...
Going to church is one thing ... but BUILDING a church? That's something else ... and that's what we started today. At least WE started ... the church building itself is well underway. The foundation has already - quite literally! - been laid, and the walls are nearly done.
Now it's time to begin work on the bracing that will support the roof. Later will come the roof itself, and the windows, and the doors, and so much more. A lot of work has been done, but there is STILL a lot of work to do. Fortunately, there are many hands for that work. True, some of those hands are less skilled (my own, for example) and are only here for a week.
But then there are other hands, many of them, more skilled, and here for the long run. The people of El Progresso ... they are the ones building a church home, building a center for the entire community, building a future.
We're thankful to be a part of it. Some of us have brought our own skills to bear on the project ... Casey is adept at navigating the tops of the cinder block walls and pouring cement, Will is able to reach higher with less scaffolding than anyone else in the community, and Pastor Walter wields one mean machete.
There are also sacks of cement, bundles of rebar and stacks of cinder blocks to be hauled from Belmopan to the worksite in El Progresso where the rebar will be cut, shaped and placed , and where the cement will be mixed and poured, and buckets of that mixed cement to be carried up the scaffolding ... there really is something for everyone.
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Now it's time to begin work on the bracing that will support the roof. Later will come the roof itself, and the windows, and the doors, and so much more. A lot of work has been done, but there is STILL a lot of work to do. Fortunately, there are many hands for that work. True, some of those hands are less skilled (my own, for example) and are only here for a week.
But then there are other hands, many of them, more skilled, and here for the long run. The people of El Progresso ... they are the ones building a church home, building a center for the entire community, building a future.
We're thankful to be a part of it. Some of us have brought our own skills to bear on the project ... Casey is adept at navigating the tops of the cinder block walls and pouring cement, Will is able to reach higher with less scaffolding than anyone else in the community, and Pastor Walter wields one mean machete.
There are also sacks of cement, bundles of rebar and stacks of cinder blocks to be hauled from Belmopan to the worksite in El Progresso where the rebar will be cut, shaped and placed , and where the cement will be mixed and poured, and buckets of that mixed cement to be carried up the scaffolding ... there really is something for everyone.
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