Building the orphanage

The Pause Button

Many times we roll along in our work for the Lord with everything clicking just as I am now with this post. My fingers are flying over the typewriter keys and the words are coming together as my mind formulates thought and it flows through my fingers to this page and then bloop...the internet quits [...]

June 5th, 2014|Building the orphanage|Comments Off on The Pause Button

Project for Orphans Is Almost Completed

LEPLES ORPHANAGE Thanks be to our God for His accomplishing this work for orphans. We have been amazed at how He has provided the funds each month to pay salaries and buy materials. The new orphanage is name Leples Orphanage after the two men who have envisioned helping the villages in their area to find [...]

February 24th, 2014|Building the orphanage|Comments Off on Project for Orphans Is Almost Completed

Digging In

The Head Chief is putting on a sad face as he shows us the well is not functioning correctly We were greeted at the airport by Lester and Lepherson who came to help us carry the luggage that would not fit into the compact car we have rented. I feel the affects of [...]

December 17th, 2013|Building the orphanage|Comments Off on Digging In

Amazing Bricks

Malawians make their bricks from mud and lay them in the sun to dry. After the bricks dry, they are stacked as you see in the pictures above to make a kiln. The bricks will be covered completely with a layer of mud and the wood will be placed in the holes in the bottom [...]

July 3rd, 2013|Building the orphanage|Comments Off on Amazing Bricks

The Walls Are Coming

June 30th, 2013|Building the orphanage|Comments Off on The Walls Are Coming

The Foundation Holds the Bricks

 

May 30th, 2013|Building the orphanage|Comments Off on The Foundation Holds the Bricks

Looking for Positive Solutions

Pat and Ana Tracy are standing in front of a prototype of year round farming.         A couple from our host church, Christian Character Ministries, is avidly excited about doing something great for God each and every day of their lives! Pat and Ana Tracy have set up this prototype [...]

May 30th, 2013|Building the orphanage|Comments Off on Looking for Positive Solutions

The Foundation has Strength of Design and Purpose

              The start of every building is a foundational structure that will hold everything that rests upon it. These men know how to build a strong foundation with forms made of bricks that reach down deep into the soil. The bricks are made of soil from the gigantic ant [...]

May 2nd, 2013|Building the orphanage|Comments Off on The Foundation has Strength of Design and Purpose