Saturday, September 20, 2008

Keeping Busy

For anyone wondering what I’ve been up to the last few weeks, I give a brief synopsis. Two days were spent putting up the supports for a church roof, the actual roofing will be done later. Several afternoons were spent helping with our housing projects, putting hinges and latches on the shutters, and fitting locks on the doors. Miscellaneous mornings and afternoons were spent drilling holes in the window frames and then pounding in metal burglar bars and painting said bars as well as doors, door frames, etc.
This morning I replaced our earth leakage which had been giving us some trouble. When we lose electrical power (about every other night recently) it trips when the power comes back on. Furthermore it tends to stay down. At first it was just a minor occurrence, but two nights ago it stayed down and refused to come up. We flipped all the switches down and it still refused to budge. Since we realized that the earth leakage was an the way out we decided to remove it and bypass it until we could replace it. Removing it took all of a minute (keep in mind this was all done at 8:00 in the evening by candle and flashlight). However fixing the neutral bar which had become dislodged when trying to free one of the neutral wires and rigging up a joint from the neutral bar to the neutral wire coming from outside took toil and sweat (thankfully no blood) and a good 45 minutes. This morning I installed the new earth leakage without too much hassle and we are up and running.
We start Bible School again on the 7th of October. Between preparation for that and housing projects we will be pretty busy. As a result I may not be getting online very often.
There is a possibility of our getting internet in our home, for at least certain hours of the day. The only snag is that the particular equipment we need is currently out of stock. The company should have more, but we don’t know when they said maybe next week so we’ll have to see.
We recently added another village to our orphan feeding program. There was one widow with several children that requested help. Mom went to see the situation. We agreed to help her. The next day several other people from that area who had seen Mom on her journey showed up at our gate asking for help. It has been about 2 weeks and we now have 60 families from that area that we are assisting to various degrees.
I hope to write another Scripture study soon, but as of right now I have no idea on what I’ll write. So until then…

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