Rachel Chapman a servant of the Living God While we were making our way up the road to the village, some of our friends were coming down toward the town. They were going to register a child and take care of some community business. We both stopped and chatted a while before getting back in our vehicles and heading our respective ways. During the quick chat, we learned that our walls were ready for a roof!!! Yay! They laughed – If we wanted a really short house! Our people love to laugh and joke. They then told us our walls were just barely taller than when we were in the village last.
So, we continued on not knowing why the people hadn’t worked on our house much. We soon found out. As soon as we got to the village, one of the building team came over to show my partner Dan the house. With all the rain we have received in the area, part of the foundation caved in causing a wall to fall. In another part, a small wall had completely fallen over and another wall was leaning.
Wall between my office and living area - the foundation under the wall caved in causing the wall to collapse
So, the team had stopped working to wait for guidance about how to take care of the problems. The next morning, my partner Dan worked with them rebuilding that part of the foundation with cement and rock.
Reforming the foundation with rock and cement
A good strong foundation - this one won't cave in
Then, they tore down the leaning wall and rebuilt it straight.
They tore down most of this wall to make it straight again
It took a day to repair the damages that the rain had done.
The master brick-layer at work
